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Entry name Sugimoto-Shirasu Keiko et al. 2005 Dec. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102(51):18736-41.
Title RHL1 is an essential component of the plant DNA topoisomerase VI complex and is required for ploidy-dependent cell growth.
Authors Maxwell Anthony|McCann Maureen C|Roberts Gethin R|Roberts Keith|Stacey Nicola J|Sugimoto-Shirasu Keiko
Abstract How cells achieve their final sizes is a pervasive biological question. One strategy to increase cell size is for the cell to amplify its chromosomal DNA content through endoreduplication cycles. Although endoreduplication is widespread in eukaryotes, we know very little about its molecular mechanisms. Successful progression of the endoreduplication cycle in Arabidopsis requires a plant homologue of archaeal DNA topoisomerase (topo) VI. To further understand how DNA is endoreduplicated and how this process is regulated, we isolated a dwarf Arabidopsis mutant, hyp7 (hypocotyl 7), in which various large cell types that in the wild type normally endoreduplicate multiple times complete only the first two rounds of endoreduplication and stall at 8C. HYP7 encodes the RHL1 (ROOT HAIRLESS 1) protein, and sequence analysis reveals that RHL1 has similarity to the C-terminal domain of mammalian DNA topo IIalpha, another type II topo that shares little sequence homology with topo VI. RHL1 shows DNA binding activity in vitro, and we present both genetic and in vivo evidence that RHL1 forms a multiprotein complex with plant topo VI. We propose that RHL1 plays an essential role in the topo VI complex to modulate its function and that the two distantly related topos, topo II and topo VI, have evolved a common domain that extends their function. Our data suggest that plant topo II and topo VI play distinct but overlapping roles during the mitotic cell cycle and endoreduplication cycle.
Pubmed ID 16339310
Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume 102
Issue 51
Pages 18736-41
Publication date 2005 Dec
Num of phenotype gene 1