Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on May 23, 2005.

Genetics, Vol. 170, 1045-1062, July 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.040105

In Vivo Characterization of the Nonessential Budding Yeast Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome Components Swm1p, Mnd2p and Apc9p

* Program in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
{ddagger} Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
{dagger} Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada

2 Corresponding author: Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 124, Canada.
E-mail: hieter{at}msl.ubc.ca

We have examined the in vivo requirement of two recently identified nonessential components of the budding yeast anaphase-promoting complex, Swm1p and Mnd2p, as well as that of the previously identified subunit Apc9p. swm1{Delta} mutants exhibit synthetic lethality or conditional synthetic lethality with other APC/C subunits and regulators, whereas mnd2{Delta} mutants are less sensitive to perturbation of the APC/C. swm1{Delta} mutants, but not mnd2{Delta} mutants, exhibit defects in APC/C substrate turnover, both during the mitotic cell cycle and in {alpha}-factor-arrested cells. In contrast, apc9{Delta} mutants exhibit only minor defects in substrate degradation in {alpha}-factor-arrested cells. In cycling cells, degradation of Clb2p, but not Pds1p or Clb5p, is delayed in apc9{Delta}. Our findings suggest that Swm1p is required for full catalytic activity of the APC/C, whereas the requirement of Mnd2p for APC/C function appears to be negligible under standard laboratory conditions. Furthermore, the role of Apc9p in APC/C-dependent ubiquitination may be limited to the proteolysis of a select number of substrates.




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