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doi:10.1534/genetics.107.081695
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Schizosaccharomyces pombe Bub3 is dispensable for mitotic arrest following perturbed spindle formation
Yoshie Tange 1 and Osami Niwa 1*
1 Kazusa DNA Research Institute
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: niwa{at}kazusa.or.jp.
Submitted on September 6, 2007
Revised on October 5, 2007
Accepted on 7 April 2008
The core proteins of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), Mads, Bubs, and Mps1, first identified in the budding yeast, are thought to be functionally and structurally conserved through evolution. We found that fission yeast Bub3 is dispensable for SAC, as bub3-null mutants blocked mitotic progression when spindle formation was disrupted. Consistently, the bub3 mutation only weakly affected the stability of minichromosome Ch16 compared with other SAC mutants. Fission yeast Rae1 has sequence homology with Bub3. The bub3 rae1 double mutant and rae1 single mutant did not have defective SAC, suggesting that these genes do not have overlapping roles for SAC. Observations of living cells revealed that the duration of the mitotic prometaphase/metaphase was longer in the bub3 mutant and was Mad2-dependent. Further, the bub3 mutant was defective in sister centromere association during metaphase. Together, these findings suggest that fission yeast Bub3 is required for normal spindle dynamics, but not for SAC.
Key Words: bub3, fission yeast, rae1, spindle checkpoint
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