Mrc1/claspin

 

Checkpoint adaptor protein. Probable component of replication forks.

 

 

Synonyms

Claspin (Xl, Hs)

 

Molecular weight

124 kDa (Sc)

 

Biochemical properties

•DNA binding of oligos (1) and branched structures (2)

Motifs

Mammals

• phosphopeptide motifs (chk1 site) (3)

Protein interactions

Sc

•Cdc45 (4) (5) tethers to stalled forks?

•Mcm2/3 (6) (7)

•Synthetic lethality pola (7)

• in GINS complex (8)

• Synthetic lethality rrm1

• pol2 separate sites at n and c termini modulated by Dpb2{Lou et al., 2008, Mol Cell, 32, 106-17}

 

Sp

•Cds1 – needed to recruit cds1 to stalled forks

(9) (10)

 

Xl

• Chk1 (Binds and activates) in xenopus extracts (11) binding region (12) the interaction needs topbp1 (13)

• plx (14) in aphididcolin or uv conditions. (modified by kinase)

•BRCA1 complex (15)

 

Mammals

• PCNA (16)

•human homologues of c elegans clk2 (17)

•Rad17 (phosphorylated) (18)

• cdc7 in chk1 activation{Kim et al., 2008, Oncogene, 27, 3475-82}

Modifications

SC

• Phosphorylation via mec1 (6) (19) . Tel2 needed for its phosp (20) horylation

 

Xl

•phosphorylated if add synthetic oligos or aphidicolin/uv  into extracts (11) or hu (h) (21) site in chk1 interaction domain (22)

•ub for degradation via proteosome. (22)

 

Mammals

• phosphorylated chk1  mediates function (3) , and is needed for clasp in stability (23)

• phosphorylated by cdc7 (24)

Structure

• Ring structure

(2)

 

Cellular location and expression

Sc

•Binds to origins the moves away with sites BrdU incorporation (4) (19) (5) loads independently of tof

 

Mammals

•Expression up in g1/s peaks g2/m (21) rapid drop off in M (22) levels up on hu, v or aphidicolin in ATR dependent way

• proteolysis by SCFbetaTrCP in recovery from damage (25) (26) . Some role for plk1 in this process (27) . controlled by de ub enzyme USP7 {Faustrup et al., 2009, J Cell Biol, 184, 13-9}

• apc substrate in g1 degradation prevented by de ubitylation by usp28 {Bassermann et al., 2008, Cell, 134, 256-67}

Other comments

Sc

• transduces replication stress through rad53 (28)

•Present at rfbs (29) although not needed at all rfbs

•mutants give defective fork movement in normal cell cycle (6) (30) (31) and faulty pausing in tRNA genes tof doesn’t do this)

•mutants don’t activate the checkpoint for genotoxic drugs (30)

• needed for telomere end protection after loss of capping (32) (33)

• regulates crossing over (34)

•Important for triplet repeat stability {Razidlo and Lahue, 2008, DNA Repair (Amst), 7, 633-40}

 

Sp

• transduces replication stress through cds1

(28) •Not needed for replication fork pausing here

• regulates replication machinery (35)

 

Xl

•Needs cdc45 to load on chromatin

(11)

•slight negative effect of rad17/atr on binding in the presence aphidicolin.

 

mammalian

•Overexpression (h) gives increased cell proliferation (15)

• regulates ddb2 (36)

•Needed for ATR activation of chk1 acts through claspin {Bennett et al., 2008, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 369, 973-6}

• slowing of fork progression in claspin depleted cells {Petermann et al., 2008, Mol Biol Cell, 19, 2373-8}

• needed for ub PCNA after DNA damage {Yang et al., 2008, Genes Dev, 22, 1147-52}

 

Revised by

 

Last edited

14 July 09

 

 

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2.    Sar,F., Lindsey-Boltz,L.A., Subramanian,D., Croteau,D.L., Hutsell,S.Q., Griffith,J.D. and Sancar,A. (2004) Human claspin is a ring-shaped DNA-binding protein with high affinity to branched DNA structures. J Biol Chem279, 39289-39295.

3.    Chini,C.C. and Chen,J. (2006) Repeated phosphopeptide motifs in human Claspin are phosphorylated by Chk1 and mediate Claspin function. J Biol Chem 281, 33276-33282.

4.    Katou,Y., Kanoh,Y., Bando,M., Noguchi,H., Tanaka,H., Ashikari,T., Sugimoto,K. and Shirahige,K. (2003) S-phase checkpoint proteins Tof1 and Mrc1 form a stable replication-pausing complex. Nature 424, 1078-1083.

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11.  Lee,J., Kumagai,A. and Dunphy,W.G. (2003) Claspin, a Chk1-regulatory protein, monitors DNA replication on chromatin independently of RPA, ATR, and Rad17. Mol Cell 11, 329-340.

12.  Kumagai,A. and Dunphy,W.G. (2003) Repeated phosphopeptide motifs in Claspin mediate the regulated binding of Chk1. Nat Cell Biol 5, 161-165.

13.  Liu,S., Bekker-Jensen,S., Mailand,N., Lukas,C., Bartek,J. and Lukas,J. (2006) Claspin operates downstream of TopBP1 to direct ATR signaling towards Chk1 activation. Mol Cell Biol 26, 6056-6064.

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15.  Lin,S.Y., Li,K., Stewart,G.S. and Elledge,S.J. (2004) Human Claspin works with BRCA1 to both positively and negatively regulate cell proliferation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101, 6484-6489.

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