A Role for the Replication Proteins PCNA, RF-C, Polymerase and Cdc45 in Transcriptional Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Corresponding author: Jasper Rine, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 401 Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720., jrine{at}uclink4.berkeley.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: F. WINSTON

Transcriptional silencing in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae may be linked to DNA replication and cell cycle progression. In this study, we have surveyed the effect of 41 mutations in genes with a role in replication, the cell cycle, and DNA repair on silencing at HMR. Mutations in PCNA (POL30), RF-C (CDC44), polymerase (POL2, DPB2, DPB11), and CDC45 were found to restore silencing at a mutant HMR silencer allele that was still a chromosomal origin of replication. Replication timing experiments indicated that the mutant HMR locus was replicated late in S-phase, at the same time as wild-type HMR. Restoration of silencing by PCNA and CDC45 mutations required the origin recognition complex binding site of the HMR-E silencer. Several models for the precise role of these replication proteins in silencing are discussed.

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