Proliferating cell nuclear antigen and Msh2p-Msh6p interact to form an active mispair recognition complex.
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is required for mismatch repair (MMR) and has been shown to interact with complexes containing Msh2p or MLH1 (refs 1-4). PCNA has been implicated to act in MMR before and during the DNA synthesis step, although the biochemical basis for the role of PCNA early in MMR is unclear. Here we observe an interaction between PCNA and Msh2p-Msh6p mediated by a specific PCNA-binding site present in Msh6p. An msh6 mutation that eliminated the PCNA-binding site caused a mutator phenotype and a defect in the interaction with PCNA. The association of PCNA with Msh2p-Msh6p stimulated the preferential binding of Msh2p-Msh6p to DNA containing mispaired bases. Mutant PCNA proteins encoded by MMR-defective pol30 alleles were defective for interaction with Msh2p-Msh6p and for stimulation of mispair binding by Msh2p-Msh6p. Our results suggest that PCNA functions directly in mispair recognition and that mispair recognition requires a higher-order complex containing proteins in addition to Msh2p-Msh6p.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D020137:Base Pair Mismatch; D001665:Binding Sites; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D004260:DNA Repair; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051718:MutS Homolog 2 Protein; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D011485:Protein Binding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C098790:MSH6 protein, S cerevisiae; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D018809:Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C489751:MSH2 protein, S cerevisiae; D051718:MutS Homolog 2 Protein