title: Fission yeast Rad26 is a regulatory subunit of the Rad3 checkpoint kinase.
abstract: Fission yeast Rad3 is a member of a family of phosphoinositide 3-kinase -related kinases required for the maintenance of genomic stability in all eukaryotic cells. In fission yeast, Rad3 regulates the cell cycle arrest and recovery activities associated with the G2/M checkpoint. We have developed an assay that directly measures Rad3 kinase activity in cells expressing physiological levels of the protein. Using the assay, we demonstrate directly that Rad3 kinase activity is stimulated by checkpoint signals. Of the five other G2/M checkpoint proteins (Hus1, Rad1, Rad9, Rad17, and Rad26), only Rad26 was required for Rad3 kinase activity. Because Rad26 has previously been shown to interact constitutively with Rad3, our results demonstrate that Rad26 is a regulatory subunit, and Rad3 is the catalytic subunit, of the Rad3/Rad26 kinase complex. Analysis of Rad26/Rad3 kinase activation in rad26.T12, a mutant that is proficient for cell cycle arrest, but defective in recovery, suggests that these two responses to checkpoint signals require quantitatively different levels of kinase activity from the Rad3/Rad26 complex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. wolkow@rascal.med.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Tom D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Wolkow
authors.forename: Tamar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Enoch
mesh_terms: D001761:Bleomycin / Q000378:metabolism; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D064447:Checkpoint Kinase 2; D004249:DNA Damage; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D018816:Genes, cdc / Q000502:physiology; D006918:Hydroxyurea / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D029702:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins; C088086:rad26 protein, S pombe; D001761:Bleomycin; D011494:Protein Kinases; D064447:Checkpoint Kinase 2; C456840:rad3 protein, S pombe; D006918:Hydroxyurea