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Mol. Biol. Cell 10.1091/mbc.E06-09-0853

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Submitted on September 22, 2006
Accepted on May 17, 2007

The Nucleolar Net1/Cfi1-related Protein Dnt1 Antagonizes the Septation Initiation Network in Fission Yeast

Quan-Wen Jin,*{dagger} Samriddha Ray,* Sung Hugh Choi, and Dannel McCollum

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and the Program in Cell Dynamics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605

Monitoring Editor: Kerry Bloom

The SIN and MEN signaling pathways regulate cytokinesis and mitotic exit in the yeasts Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and S. cerevisiae respectively. One function of these pathways is to keep the Cdc14-family phosphatase, called Clp1 in S. pombe, from being sequestered and inhibited in the nucleolus. In S. pombe, the SIN and Clp1 act as part of a cytokinesis checkpoint that allows cells to cope with cytokinesis defects. The SIN promotes checkpoint function by 1) keeping Clp1 out of the nucleolus, 2) maintaining the cytokinetic apparatus, and 3) halting the cell cycle until cytokinesis is completed. In a screen for suppressors of the SIN mutant cytokinesis checkpoint defect, we identified a novel nucleolar protein called Dnt1 and other nucleolar proteins including Rrn5 and Nuc1, which are known to be required for rDNA transcription. Dnt1 shows sequence homology to Net1/Cfi1, which encodes the nucleolar inhibitor of Cdc14 in budding yeast. Like Net1/Cfi1, Dnt1 is required for rDNA silencing, mini-chromosome maintenance, and both Dnt1 and Net1/Cfi1 negatively regulate the homologous SIN and MEN pathways. Unlike Net1/Cfi1, which regulates the MEN through the Cdc14 phosphatase, Dnt1 can inhibit SIN signaling independent of Clp1, suggesting a novel connection between the nucleolus and the SIN pathway.

*These authors contributed equally to this work.

{dagger}Present address: Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China 361005.

Address correspondence to: Dannel McCollum (dannel.mccollum{at}umassmed.edu)






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