title: PCNA binding through a conserved motif.
abstract: Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) has recently been identified as a target for the binding of several proteins. The cell cycle regulatory protein, p21, and the replication endonuclease, Fen1, have already been described as competing for PCNA binding. Two recent reports have identified DNA (cytosine-5)methyltransferase (MCMT) and the DNA repair endonuclease XPG as binding to PCNA. The remarkable thing about these interactions is that they all seem to occur through a conserved motif that is likely to contact the same site on PCNA. This has fascinating implications for a regulatory network linking these diverse protein functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Scotland. e.warbrick@dundee.ac.uk
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Warbrick
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D050759:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21; D016213:Cyclins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D004248:DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000378:metabolism; D004260:DNA Repair; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004720:Endonucleases; D043211:Exodeoxyribonuclease V; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000099250:DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-5
chemical_list: D050759:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21; D016213:Cyclins; D004248:DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases; D004265:DNA Helicases; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004720:Endonucleases; D043211:Exodeoxyribonuclease V; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000099250:DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-5