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ATR Homolog Mec1 Promotes Fork Progression, Thus Averting Breaks in Replication Slow Zones
Rita S. Cha,Nancy Kleckner*
Budding yeast Mec1, homolog of mammalian ATR, is an
essential protein that mediates S-phase checkpoint responses and
meioticrecombination. Elimination of Mec1 function leads to genomewidefork stalling followed by chromosome breakage. Breaks do not resultfrom stochastic collapse of stalled forks or other incidentallesions;
instead, they occur in specific regions of the genomeduring a
G2 chromosomal transition. Break regions are found tobe
genetically encoded replication slow zones (RSZs), a newlydiscovered yeast chromosomal determinant. Thus, Mec1 has importantfunctions in normal S phase and the genome instability of mec1(and, analogously, ATR/) mutants stems
from defects in these basic roles.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
kleckner{at}fas.harvard.edu.
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