TY - JOUR
T1 - PCNA Retention on DNA into G2/M Phase Causes Genome Instability in Cells Lacking Elg1
AU - Johnson, Catherine
AU - Gali, Vamsi K.
AU - Takahashi, Tatsuro S.
AU - Kubota, Takashi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Richard Kolodner, Grant Brown, and Daniel Durocher for strains and plasmids. We thank Anne Donaldson, Alexander Lorenz, and Shin-ichiro Hiraga from University of Aberdeen for careful reading of the manuscript. Research in T.K.’s lab is supported by Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship L019698/1. V.K.G. was supported by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant K006304/1. T.S.T. was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (nos. 23131507 and 25131712).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/7/19
Y1 - 2016/7/19
N2 - Loss of the genome maintenance factor Elg1 causes serious genome instability that leads to cancer, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Elg1 forms the major subunit of a replication factor C-like complex, Elg1-RLC, which unloads the ring-shaped polymerase clamp PCNA from DNA during replication. Here, we show that prolonged retention of PCNA on DNA into G2/M phase is the major cause of genome instability in elg1Δ yeast. Overexpression-induced accumulation of PCNA on DNA causes genome instability. Conversely, disassembly-prone PCNA mutants that relieve PCNA accumulation rescue the genome instability of elg1Δ cells. Covalent modifications to the retained PCNA make only a minor contribution to elg1Δ genome instability. By engineering cell-cycle-regulated ELG1 alleles, we show that abnormal accumulation of PCNA on DNA during S phase causes moderate genome instability and its retention through G2/M phase exacerbates genome instability. Our results reveal that PCNA unloading by Elg1-RLC is critical for genome maintenance.
AB - Loss of the genome maintenance factor Elg1 causes serious genome instability that leads to cancer, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. Elg1 forms the major subunit of a replication factor C-like complex, Elg1-RLC, which unloads the ring-shaped polymerase clamp PCNA from DNA during replication. Here, we show that prolonged retention of PCNA on DNA into G2/M phase is the major cause of genome instability in elg1Δ yeast. Overexpression-induced accumulation of PCNA on DNA causes genome instability. Conversely, disassembly-prone PCNA mutants that relieve PCNA accumulation rescue the genome instability of elg1Δ cells. Covalent modifications to the retained PCNA make only a minor contribution to elg1Δ genome instability. By engineering cell-cycle-regulated ELG1 alleles, we show that abnormal accumulation of PCNA on DNA during S phase causes moderate genome instability and its retention through G2/M phase exacerbates genome instability. Our results reveal that PCNA unloading by Elg1-RLC is critical for genome maintenance.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.030
DO - 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.030
M3 - Article
C2 - 27373149
AN - SCOPUS:84978472809
SN - 2211-1247
VL - 16
SP - 684
EP - 695
JO - Cell Reports
JF - Cell Reports
IS - 3
ER -
