During mitosis, cohesins hold the sister chromatids together until anaphase when arm cohesins are removed (Peters et al., 2008; Yao and Dai, 2012). The shugoshin (Sgo) proteins play pivotal roles during this stage...During mitosis, cohesins hold the sister chromatids together until anaphase when arm cohesins are removed (Peters et al., 2008; Yao and Dai, 2012). The shugoshin (Sgo) proteins play pivotal roles during this stage. There is only one shu- goshin in the fly and budding yeasts, while there are two in other organisms (including fission yeasts). The two mamma- lian shugoshins, Sgol and Sgo2, carry out distinct functions: Sgol mainly in mitosis, and Sgo2 mainly in meiosis and perturbed mitosis. Mitotic cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDKI) phosphorylates Sgol, and targets the Sgol-protein phospha- tase 2A (PP2A) complex to protect centromeric cohesin (Kitajima et al., 2006; Tang et al., 2006; Liu et al., 2012),展开更多
基金supported by the grants from the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars from State Education Ministry to J.L.,the National Nature Science Foundation of China(Nos.31271446 to J.Liao,31071190 and 31130017 to X.X.)the National Program on Key Basic Research Project(No.2013CB911002to X.X.)
文摘During mitosis, cohesins hold the sister chromatids together until anaphase when arm cohesins are removed (Peters et al., 2008; Yao and Dai, 2012). The shugoshin (Sgo) proteins play pivotal roles during this stage. There is only one shu- goshin in the fly and budding yeasts, while there are two in other organisms (including fission yeasts). The two mamma- lian shugoshins, Sgol and Sgo2, carry out distinct functions: Sgol mainly in mitosis, and Sgo2 mainly in meiosis and perturbed mitosis. Mitotic cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDKI) phosphorylates Sgol, and targets the Sgol-protein phospha- tase 2A (PP2A) complex to protect centromeric cohesin (Kitajima et al., 2006; Tang et al., 2006; Liu et al., 2012),