Prevalent and dynamic binding of the cell cycle checkpoint kinase Rad53 to gene promoters

  1. Yi-Jun Sheu
  2. Risa Karakida Kawaguchi
  3. Jesse Gillis
  4. Bruce Stillman  Is a corresponding author
  1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States

Abstract

Replication of the genome must be coordinated with gene transcription and cellular metabolism, especially following replication stress in the presence of limiting deoxyribonucleotides. The S. cerevisiae Rad53 (CHEK2 in mammals) checkpoint kinase plays a major role in cellular responses to DNA replication stress. Cell cycle regulated, genome-wide binding of Rad53 to chromatin was examined. Under replication stress, the kinase bound to sites of active DNA replication initiation and fork progression, but unexpectedly to the promoters of about 20% of genes encoding proteins involved in multiple cellular functions. Rad53 promoter binding correlated with changes in expression of a subset of genes. Rad53 promoter binding to certain genes was influenced by sequence-specific transcription factors and less by checkpoint signaling. However, in checkpoint mutants, untimely activation of late-replicating origins reduces the transcription of nearby genes, with concomitant localization of Rad53 to their gene bodies. We suggest that the Rad53 checkpoint kinase coordinates genome-wide replication and transcription under replication stress conditions.

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Sequencing data have been deposited in Dryad data baseStillman, Bruce; Gillis, Jesse; Kawaguchi, Risa Karakida; Sheu, Yi-Jun (2022), Prevalent and Dynamic Binding of the Cell Cycle Checkpoint Kinase Rad53 to Gene Promoters, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tx95x69xv

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  1. Yi-Jun Sheu

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, United States
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  2. Risa Karakida Kawaguchi

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, United States
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  3. Jesse Gillis

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, United States
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  4. Bruce Stillman

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Uehara Memorial Foundation (Postdoctoral Fellowship)

  • Risa Karakida Kawaguchi

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  1. Yi-Jun Sheu
  2. Risa Karakida Kawaguchi
  3. Jesse Gillis
  4. Bruce Stillman
(2022)
Prevalent and dynamic binding of the cell cycle checkpoint kinase Rad53 to gene promoters
eLife 11:e84320.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84320

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