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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on December 8, 2008.
Genetics, Vol. 181, 379-391, February 2009, Copyright © 2009
doi:10.1534/genetics.108.099101
Mcm10 Mediates the Interaction Between DNA Replication and Silencing Machineries
Ivan Liachko and Bik K. Tye1
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
1 Corresponding author: 325 Biotechnology Bldg., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
E-mail: bt16{at}cornell.edu
The connection between DNA replication and heterochromatic silencing in yeast has been a topic of investigation for >20 years. While early studies showed that silencing requires passage through S phase and implicated several DNA replication factors in silencing, later works showed that silent chromatin could form without DNA replication. In this study we show that members of the replicative helicase (Mcm3 and Mcm7) play a role in silencing and physically interact with the essential silencing factor, Sir2, even in the absence of DNA replication. Another replication factor, Mcm10, mediates the interaction between these replication and silencing proteins via a short C-terminal domain. Mutations in this region of Mcm10 disrupt the interaction between Sir2 and several of the Mcm2–7 proteins. While such mutations caused silencing defects, they did not cause DNA replication defects or affect the association of Sir2 with chromatin. Our findings suggest that Mcm10 is required for the coupling of the replication and silencing machineries to silence chromatin in a context outside of DNA replication beyond the recruitment and spreading of Sir2 on chromatin.
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