Genetics, Vol 126, 309-315, Copyright © 1990


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stf1: Non-Wee Mutations Epistatic to cdc25 in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

J. D. Hudson, H. Feilotter and P. G. Young
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6

In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, cdc25 is a cell cycle regulated inducer of mitosis. wee1 and phenotypically wee alleles of cdc2 are epistatic to cdc25. Mutant alleles of a new locus, stf1 (suppressor of twentyfive), identified in a reversion analysis of conditionally lethal cdr1-76 cdc25-22 and cdr2-96 cdc25-22 double mutant strains, also suppress both temperature-sensitive and gene disruption alleles of cdc25. These mutants, by themselves, are phenotypically indistinguishable from wild type strains; hence they represent the first known mutations that are epistatic to cdc25 and do not display a wee phenotype. stf1 genetically interacts with other elements of mitotic control in S. pombe. stf1-1 is additive with wee1-50, cdc2-1w and cdc2-3w for suppression of cdc25-22. Also, like wee1(-) and cdc2-w, stf1(-) suppression of cdc25 is reversed by overexpression of the putative type 1 protein phosphatase bws1(+)/dis2(+). Interaction with various mutants and plasmid overexpression experiments suggest that stf1 does not operate either upstream or downstream of wee1. Similarly, it does not operate through cdc25 since it rescues the disruption. stf1 appears to encode an important new element of mitotic control.


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