Genetics, Vol. 177, 2525-2530, December 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.080408

Synthetic Lethal Interactions Identify Phenotypic "Interologs" of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Components

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada

1 Corresponding author: Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, NCE, Room 419, 2125 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
E-mail: ann.rose{at}ubc.ca

Here, we report genetic interactions with mdf-1(gk2)/MAD1 in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nine are evolutionarily conserved or phenotypic "interologs" and two are novel enhancers, hcp-1 and bub-3. We show that HCP-1 and HCP-2, the two CENP-F-related proteins, recently implicated in the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) function, do not have identical functions, since hcp-1(RNAi), but not hcp-2(RNAi), enhances the lethality of the SAC mutants.




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