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In Schizosaccharomyces pombe the MBF (DSC1) complex mediates transcriptional activation at Start and is composed of a common subunit called Cdc10 in combination with two alternative DNA-binding partners, Res1 and Res2. It has been suggested that a high-activity MBF complex (at G1/S) is switched to a low-activity complex (in G2) by the incorporation of the negative regulatory subunit Res2. We have analyzed MBF protein-protein interactions and find that both Res proteins are associated with Cdc10 throughout the cell cycle, arguing against this model. Furthermore we demonstrate that Res2 is capable of interacting with a mutant form of Cdc10 that has high transcriptional activity. It has been shown previously that both Res proteins are required for periodic cell cycle-regulated transcription. Therefore a series of Res1-Res2 hybrid molecules was used to determine the domains that are specifically required to regulate periodic transcription. In Res2 the nature of the C-terminal region is critical, and in both Res1 and Res2, a domain overlapping the N-terminal ankyrin repeat and a recently identified activation domain is important for mediating cell cycle-regulated transcription.
Author(s): Whitehall S, Stacey P, Dawson K, Jones N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Molecular Biology of the Cell
Year: 1999
Volume: 10
Issue: 11
Pages: 3705-3715
Print publication date: 01/11/1999
ISSN (print): 1059-1524
ISSN (electronic): 1939-4586
Publisher: American Society for Cell Biology
PubMed id: 10564266
