Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) plays an essential role in eukaryotic DNA replication, and numerous DNA replication proteins have been found to interact with PCNA through a conserved eight-amino acid motif called the PIP-box. We have searched the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for open reading frames that encode proteins with putative PIP-boxes and initiated testing of 135 novel candidates for their ability to interact with PCNA-conjugated agarose beads. The first new PCNA-binding protein identified in this manner is the 5' to 3' DNA helicase RRM3. Yeast two-hybrid tests show that N-terminal deletions of RRM3, which remove the PIP-box but leave the helicase motifs intact, abolish the interaction with PCNA. In addition, mutating the two phenylalanine residues in the PIP-box to alanine or aspartic acid reduces binding to PCNA, confirming that the PIP-box in RRM3 is responsible for interaction with PCNA. The results presented here suggest that the RRM3 helicase functions at the replication fork.

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Journal Article | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Authors

Schmidt KH, Derry KL, Kolodner RD

Primary Lit For

RRM3 | PCNA homotrimer

Additional Lit For

POL30 | EST1 | rrm3-FFAA | rrm3-FFDD | rrm3-D54 | rrm3-D230

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