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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2006, p. 343-353, Vol. 26, No. 1
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.26.1.343-353.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Rhp51-Dependent Recombination Intermediates That Do Not Generate Checkpoint Signal Are Accumulated in Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad60 and smc5/6 Mutants after Release from Replication Arrest

Izumi Miyabe,1,{dagger} Takashi Morishita,1* Takashi Hishida,1 Shuji Yonei,2 and Hideo Shinagawa1,3*

Genome Dynamics Group, Research Institute for Microbial Disease, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan,1 Laboratory of Radiation Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan and,2 BioAcademia Inc., 7-7-18 Saito-Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0085, Japan3

Received 30 June 2005/ Returned for modification 1 August 2005/ Accepted 13 October 2005

The Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad60 gene is essential for cell growth and is involved in repairing DNA double-strand breaks. Rad60 physically interacts with and is functionally related to the structural maintenance of chromosomes 5 and 6 (SMC5/6) protein complex. In this study, we investigated the role of Rad60 in the recovery from the arrest of DNA replication induced by hydroxyurea (HU). rad60-1 mutant cells arrested mitosis normally when treated with HU. Significantly, Rad60 function is not required during HU arrest but is required on release. However, the mutant cells underwent aberrant mitosis accompanied by irregular segregation of chromosomes, and DNA replication was not completed, as revealed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The deletion of rhp51 suppressed the aberrant mitosis of rad60-1 cells and caused mitotic arrest. These results suggest that Rhp51 and Rad60 are required for the restoration of a stalled or collapsed replication fork after release from the arrest of DNA replication by HU. The rad60-1 mutant was proficient in Rhp51 focus formation after release from the HU-induced arrest of DNA replication or DNA-damaging treatment. Furthermore, the lethality of a rad60-1 rqh1{Delta} double mutant was suppressed by the deletion of rhp51 or rhp57. These results suggest that Rad60 is required for recombination repair at a step downstream of Rhp51. We propose that Rhp51-dependent DNA structures that cannot activate the mitotic checkpoints accumulate in rad60-1 cells.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Genome Dynamics Group, Research Institute for Microbial Disease, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Phone: 81 6 6879 8319. Fax: 81 6 6879 8320. E-mail for Hideo Shinagawa: shinagaw{at}biken.osaka-u.ac.jp. E-mail for Takashi Morishita: tmorishi{at}biken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

{dagger} Present address: Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RQ, United Kingdom.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2006, p. 343-353, Vol. 26, No. 1
0022-538X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.26.1.343-353.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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