Topoisomerase II: its functions and phosphorylation |
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Authors: | Susan M. Gasser Robin Walter Qi Dang Maria E. Cardenas |
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Affiliation: | (1) Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), CH-1066 Epalinges s/Lausanne, Switzerland;(2) Present address: University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA, USA;(3) Present address: Rockefeller University, 10021 New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | The gene encoding topoisomerase II in yeast is unique and essential, required for both mitotic and meiotic proliferation. The use of temperature-sensitive mutants in topoisomerase II have demonstrated roles in the relaxation of tortional stress, reduction of recombination rates, and in the separation of sister chromatids after replication. In vertebrate cells, topoisomerase II was shown to be the most abundant component of the metaphase chromosomal scaffold, and has been shown to play a role in chromosome condensationin vitro. The cell cycle control of chromosome condensation may well require phosphorylation of topoisomerase II, since the enzyme is more highly phosphorylated in metaphase than in G1. Recent studies have identified casein kinase II as the major enzyme phosphorylating topoisomerase II in intact yeast cells. The target sites of CKII are exclusively in the C-terminal 400 amino acids of topoisomerase II, the region that is most divergent among the eukaryotic type II enzymes and which is absent in the bacterial gyrase homologues.Abbreviations topoII topoisomerase II - CKII Casein Kinase II - SV40 Simian Virus 40 |
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Keywords: | chromosomes nuclear scaffold phosphorylation topoisomerase II yeast |
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