cut2

Summary

Gene Symbol: cut2
Description: securin cut2
Alias: SPBC1815.02c, securin cut2
Species: fission yeast

Top Publications

  1. Kumada K, Nakamura T, Nagao K, Funabiki H, Nakagawa T, Yanagida M. Cut1 is loaded onto the spindle by binding to Cut2 and promotes anaphase spindle movement upon Cut2 proteolysis. Curr Biol. 1998;8:633-41 pubmed
    The Cut1 and Cut2 proteins of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe form a complex and are required for the separation of sister chromatids during anaphase...
  2. Nagao K, Yanagida M. Securin can have a separase cleavage site by substitution mutations in the domain required for stabilization and inhibition of separase. Genes Cells. 2006;11:247-60 pubmed
    ..Separase is activated on the destruction of securin and cleaves cohesin. Fission yeast securin/Cut2 required for proper separase localization has the motifs for destruction and separase-binding at the N- and C-..
  3. Kitajima T, Miyazaki Y, Yamamoto M, Watanabe Y. Rec8 cleavage by separase is required for meiotic nuclear divisions in fission yeast. EMBO J. 2003;22:5643-53 pubmed
    ..We propose that the segregation of homologues at meiosis I and of sisters at meiosis II requires the cleavage of Rec8 along chromosome arms and at the centromeres, respectively. ..
  4. Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature. 2004;430:1044-8 pubmed
    ..Separase then cleaves cohesins, thus allowing sister chromatid separation. Fission yeast securin (Cut2) has destruction boxes and a separase (Cut1) interaction site in the amino and carboxyl terminus, respectively...
  5. Izawa D, Goto M, Yamashita A, Yamano H, Yamamoto M. Fission yeast Mes1p ensures the onset of meiosis II by blocking degradation of cyclin Cdc13p. Nature. 2005;434:529-33 pubmed
    ..We therefore propose that Mes1p has a key function in saving a sufficient level of MPF (M-phase-promoting factor) activity required for the execution of MII. ..
  6. Funabiki H, Kumada K, Yanagida M. Fission yeast Cut1 and Cut2 are essential for sister chromatid separation, concentrate along the metaphase spindle and form large complexes. EMBO J. 1996;15:6617-28 pubmed
    ..We show here that the phenotype of ts cut2-364 is highly similar to that of cut1 and that the functions of the gene products of cut1+ and cut2+ are closely ..
  7. Yen H, Gordon C, Chang E. Schizosaccharomyces pombe Int6 and Ras homologs regulate cell division and mitotic fidelity via the proteasome. Cell. 2003;112:207-17 pubmed
    ..function while inactivation weakens and causes the accumulation of polyubiquitinated proteins including securin/Cut2 and cyclin/Cdc13...
  8. Matsumura T, Yuasa T, Hayashi T, Obara T, Kimata Y, Yanagida M. A brute force postgenome approach to identify temperature-sensitive mutations that negatively interact with separase and securin plasmids. Genes Cells. 2003;8:341-55 pubmed
    The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe separase/Cut1 and securin/Cut2 are required for anaphase-specific activation of proteolysis that leads to proper sister chromatid separation...
  9. Uzawa S, Samejima I, Hirano T, Tanaka K, Yanagida M. The fission yeast cut1+ gene regulates spindle pole body duplication and has homology to the budding yeast ESP1 gene. Cell. 1990;62:913-25 pubmed
    Mutations in the fission yeast cut1+, cut2+, and cut10+ genes uncouple normally coordinated mitotic events and deregulate, rather than arrest, mitosis. DNA synthesis continues, making polyploid nuclei with several spindles...

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Publications17

  1. Kimata Y, Kitamura K, Fenner N, Yamano H. Mes1 controls the meiosis I to meiosis II transition by distinctly regulating the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome coactivators Fzr1/Mfr1 and Slp1 in fission yeast. Mol Biol Cell. 2011;22:1486-94 pubmed publisher
    ..Thus Mes1 interacts with two coactivators in a different way to control the activity of the APC/C required for the meiosis I/meiosis II transition...
  2. Ikai N, Yanagida M. Cdc48 is required for the stability of Cut1/separase in mitotic anaphase. J Struct Biol. 2006;156:50-61 pubmed
    ..the phenotypic similarity and the rescue of cdc48 mutant by overproduced Cut1/separase, the levels of Cut1 and also Cut2 are diminished in cdc48 mutant. We show that the stability of Cut1 during anaphase requires Cdc48...
  3. Tatebe H, Yanagida M. Cut8, essential for anaphase, controls localization of 26S proteasome, facilitating destruction of cyclin and Cut2. Curr Biol. 2000;10:1329-38 pubmed
    ..are respectively required for polyubiquitination and degradation of mitotic cyclin and anaphase inhibitor Cut2 (Pds1/securin)...
  4. Funabiki H, Yamano H, Kumada K, Nagao K, Hunt T, Yanagida M. Cut2 proteolysis required for sister-chromatid seperation in fission yeast. Nature. 1996;381:438-41 pubmed
    ..Here we report the anaphase-specific proteolysis of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Cut2 protein, which is essential for sister-chromatid separation...
  5. Grallert B, Sipiczki M. Common genes and pathways in the regulation of the mitotic and meiotic cell cycles of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Curr Genet. 1991;20:199-204 pubmed
    ..The meiotic function of cdc13 is TBZ-sensitive and probably exerted downstream of cdc2. Single mutants in cut1 or cut2 did not effect sporulation, whereas the double mutant cut1 cut2 formed two-spored asci...
  6. Kawasaki Y, Nagao K, Nakamura T, Yanagida M. Fission yeast MAP kinase is required for the increased securin-separase interaction that rescues separase mutants under stresses. Cell Cycle. 2006;5:1831-9 pubmed
    ..Fission yeast securin/Cut2 and separase/Cut1 that form the complex are essential for viability and a number of temperature-sensitive (ts) ..
  7. Kearsey S, Stevenson A, Toda T, Wang S. Fission yeast Cut8 is required for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, ribosomal DNA maintenance, and cell survival in the absence of Rqh1 helicase. Mol Cell Biol. 2007;27:1558-67 pubmed
    ..pombe. ..
  8. Ikai N, Nakazawa N, Hayashi T, Yanagida M. The reverse, but coordinated, roles of Tor2 (TORC1) and Tor1 (TORC2) kinases for growth, cell cycle and separase-mediated mitosis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Open Biol. 2011;1:110007 pubmed publisher
    ..Surprisingly, separase/cut1-securin/cut2 mutants were rescued by TORC1/tor2-L2048S mutation or rapamycin addition or even Fkh1 deletion, whereas these ..