AMA1

Summary

Gene Symbol: AMA1
Description: Ama1p
Alias: SPO70, Ama1p
Species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c

Top Publications

  1. Coluccio A, Bogengruber E, Conrad M, Dresser M, Briza P, Neiman A. Morphogenetic pathway of spore wall assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Eukaryot Cell. 2004;3:1464-75 pubmed
    ..The results demonstrate that spore wall construction involves a series of dependent steps and provide the outline of a morphogenetic pathway for assembly of a complex extracellular structure. ..
  2. Oelschlaegel T, Schwickart M, Matos J, Bogdanova A, Camasses A, Havlis J, et al. The yeast APC/C subunit Mnd2 prevents premature sister chromatid separation triggered by the meiosis-specific APC/C-Ama1. Cell. 2005;120:773-88 pubmed
    ..During S- and prophase, Mnd2 prevents activation of the APC/C by a meiosis-specific activator called Ama1. In cells lacking Mnd2 the APC/C-Ama1 enzyme triggers degradation of Pds1, which causes premature sister chromatid ..
  3. Penkner A, Prinz S, Ferscha S, Klein F. Mnd2, an essential antagonist of the anaphase-promoting complex during meiotic prophase. Cell. 2005;120:789-801 pubmed
    ..Differently regulated APCs (APC(Cdh1), APC(Ama1)) have not been implicated in securin degradation at meiosis I...
  4. McDonald C, Cooper K, Winter E. The Ama1-directed anaphase-promoting complex regulates the Smk1 mitogen-activated protein kinase during meiosis in yeast. Genetics. 2005;171:901-11 pubmed
    ..Here we show that Ama1, a meiosis-specific activator of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C), promotes Smk1 activation during ..
  5. Diamond A, Park J, Inoue I, Tachikawa H, Neiman A. The anaphase promoting complex targeting subunit Ama1 links meiotic exit to cytokinesis during sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell. 2009;20:134-45 pubmed publisher
    ..Closure of the prospore membrane must be coordinated with the end of meiosis II to ensure proper cell division. AMA1 encodes a meiosis-specific activator of the anaphase promoting complex (APC)...
  6. Tan G, Magurno J, Cooper K. Ama1p-activated anaphase-promoting complex regulates the destruction of Cdc20p during meiosis II. Mol Biol Cell. 2011;22:315-26 pubmed publisher
    ..During meiosis, the APC/C is activated by association with Cdc20p or the meiosis-specific activator Ama1p. We present evidence that, as cells exit from meiosis II, APC/C(Ama1) mediates Cdc20p destruction...
  7. Cooper K, Mallory M, Egeland D, Jarnik M, Strich R. Ama1p is a meiosis-specific regulator of the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000;97:14548-53 pubmed
    ..Several results indicate that Ama1p is required for APC/C function during meiosis...
  8. Katis V, Matos J, Mori S, Shirahige K, Zachariae W, Nasmyth K. Spo13 facilitates monopolin recruitment to kinetochores and regulates maintenance of centromeric cohesion during yeast meiosis. Curr Biol. 2004;14:2183-96 pubmed
    ..Crucially, cohesin at centromeres is retained to allow sister centromeres to biorient at the second division. Little is known about how these meiosis I-specific events are regulated...
  9. Katis V, Lipp J, Imre R, Bogdanova A, Okaz E, Habermann B, et al. Rec8 phosphorylation by casein kinase 1 and Cdc7-Dbf4 kinase regulates cohesin cleavage by separase during meiosis. Dev Cell. 2010;18:397-409 pubmed publisher
    ..Our data suggest that PP2A protects centromeric cohesion by opposing CK1delta/epsilon- and DDK-dependent phosphorylation of Rec8. ..

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  1. Tsuchiya D, Gonzalez C, Lacefield S. The spindle checkpoint protein Mad2 regulates APC/C activity during prometaphase and metaphase of meiosis I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell. 2011;22:2848-61 pubmed publisher
    ..In these cells, both APC(Cdc20) and APC(Ama1) are prematurely active, and meiosis I and meiosis II events occur in a single meiotic division...
  2. Tan G, Lewandowski R, Mallory M, Strich R, Cooper K. Mutually dependent degradation of Ama1p and Cdc20p terminates APC/C ubiquitin ligase activity at the completion of meiotic development in yeast. Cell Div. 2013;8:9 pubmed publisher
    ..During meiosis, the APC/C is activated by the association of either Cdc20p or the meiosis-specific factor Ama1p. Both Ama1p and Cdc20p are targeted for degradation as cells exit meiosis II with Cdc20p being destroyed by APC/..
  3. Paulissen S, Slubowski C, Roesner J, Huang L. Timely Closure of the Prospore Membrane Requires SPS1 and SPO77 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2016;203:1203-16 pubmed publisher
    ..Genetic dissection of prospore membrane closure finds SPS1 and SPO77 act in parallel to a previously described pathway of prospore membrane closure that involves AMA1, an activator of the meiotic anaphase promoting complex.
  4. Okaz E, Argüello Miranda O, Bogdanova A, Vinod P, Lipp J, Markova Z, et al. Meiotic prophase requires proteolysis of M phase regulators mediated by the meiosis-specific APC/CAma1. Cell. 2012;151:603-18 pubmed publisher
    ..of latent, mitotic cell-cycle controls by the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C) and its meiosis-specific activator Ama1, which trigger the degradation of M phase regulators and Ndd1, a subunit of a mitotic transcription factor...