| Standard Name | CEP3 1 |
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| Systematic Name | YMR168C |
| Alias | CBF3 2 , CSL1 3 |
| Feature Type | ORF, Verified |
| Description | Essential kinetochore protein, component of the CBF3 complex that binds the CDEIII region of the centromere; contains an N-terminal Zn2Cys6 type zinc finger domain, a C-terminal acidic domain, and a putative coiled coil dimerization domain (1, 4, 5) Also known as: CBF3B 2 |
| Name Description | CEntromere Protein 6 |
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| Note: this feature is encoded on the Crick strand. | |
Gene Ontology Annotations All CEP3 GO evidence and references
| View Computational GO annotations for CEP3 | |
| Molecular Function | |
| Manually curated | |
| High-throughput | |
| Biological Process | |
| Manually curated | |
| Cellular Component | |
| Manually curated |
Regulatory Role
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Mutant phenotypes All CEP3 Phenotype evidence and references
| Classical genetics | |
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| null | |
| Large-scale survey | |
| conditional | |
| null | |
| overexpression | |
| reduction of function | |
| repressible | |
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interactions All CEP3 Interaction evidence and references
| 93 total interaction(s) for 75 unique genes/features. | |
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Expression Summary
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Protein Information All CEP3 Protein evidence and references
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| Phosphorylation | PhosphoGRID | PhosphoPep Database |
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sequence information
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| Last Update | Coordinates: 2011-02-03 | Sequence: 1996-07-31 | ||||||||||||
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| S288C only | |
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Resources
| External Links | All Associated Seq | Entrez Gene | Entrez RefSeq Protein | MIPS | Search all NCBI (Entrez) | UniProtKB |
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| Primary SGDID | S000004778 |
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References cited on this page View Complete Literature Guide for CEP3
| 1) | Strunnikov AV, et al. (1995) CEP3 encodes a centromere protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Cell Biol 128(5):749-60 |
| 2) | Lechner J and Carbon J (1991) A 240 kd multisubunit protein complex, CBF3, is a major component of the budding yeast centromere. Cell 64(4):717-25 |
| 3) | Baker RE, et al. (1998) Mutations synthetically lethal with cep1 target S. cerevisiae kinetochore components. Genetics 149(1):73-85 |
| 4) | Espelin CW, et al. (1997) Probing the architecture of a simple kinetochore using DNA-protein crosslinking. J Cell Biol 139(6):1383-96 |
| 5) | Lechner J (1994) A zinc finger protein, essential for chromosome segregation, constitutes a putative DNA binding subunit of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae kinetochore complex, Cbf3. EMBO J 13(21):5203-11 |
| 6) | Baker RE and Masison DC (1990) Isolation of the gene encoding the Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromere-binding protein CP1. Mol Cell Biol 10(6):2458-67 |
| 7) | Zhu C, et al. (2009) High-resolution DNA-binding specificity analysis of yeast transcription factors. Genome Res 19(4):556-66 |
| 8) | Badis G, et al. (2008) A library of yeast transcription factor motifs reveals a widespread function for Rsc3 in targeting nucleosome exclusion at promoters. Mol Cell 32(6):878-87 |





