A Yeast Replicative Helicase, Dna2 Helicase, Interacts with Yeast FEN-1 Nuclease in Carrying Out Its Essential Function
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Vol. 17 (4) , 2136-2142
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.17.4.2136
Abstract
We have recently described a new helicase, the Dna2 helicase, that is essential for yeast DNA replication. We now show that the yeast FEN-1 (yFEN-1) nuclease interacts genetically and biochemically with Dna2 helicase. FEN-1 is implicated in DNA replication and repair in yeast, and the mammalian homolog of yFEN-1 (DNase IV, FEN-1, or MF1) participates in Okazaki fragment maturation. Overproduction of yFEN-1, encoded by RAD27/RTH1, suppresses the temperature-sensitive growth of dna2-1 mutants. Overproduction of Dna2 suppresses the rad27/rth1 delta temperature-sensitive growth defect. dna2-1 rad27/rth1 delta double mutants are inviable, indicating that the mutations are synthetically lethal. The genetic interactions are likely due to direct physical interaction between the two proteins, since both epitope-tagged yFEN-1 and endogenous yFEN-1 coimmunopurify with tagged Dna2. The simplest interpretation of these data is that one of the roles of Dna2 helicase is associated with processing of Okazaki fragments.Keywords
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