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protein coding gene - rhp6 (SPAC18B11.07c) - histone H2B-K119 ubiquitin ligase complex (HULC), ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 subunit Rhp6/Rad6

Gene summary

Standard name
rhp6
Systematic ID
SPAC18B11.07c
Product
histone H2B-K119 ubiquitin ligase complex (HULC), ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 subunit Rhp6/Rad6
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
Synonyms
ubc2, sng1, rad6
UniProt ID
P23566
ORFeome ID
11/11F12
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome I: 305606..306762 forward strand

Annotation

Comment

PBO:0000270 - chromatin assembly function of H2Bub is independent of H3K4 methylation

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PBO:0000271 - chromatin silencing function of H2Bub is independent of H3K4 methylation

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Disease association

MONDO:0010461 - syndromic X-linked intellectual disability Nascimento type

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GO biological process

GO:0006325 - chromatin organization

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GO:0006281 - DNA repair

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GO:0007535 - donor selection

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GO:0040029 - epigenetic regulation of gene expression

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GO:2000639 - negative regulation of SREBP signaling pathway

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GO:0043161 - proteasome-mediated ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process

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GO:0140673 - transcription elongation-coupled chromatin remodeling

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GO cellular component

GO:0005829 - cytosol

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GO:0033503 - HULC complex

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GO:0005634 - nucleus

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GO molecular function

GO:0005515 - protein binding

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GO:0061631 - ubiquitin conjugating enzyme activity

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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0002553 - abnormal double-strand break processing

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FYPO:0001355 - decreased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0002262 - inviable after spore germination, multiple cell divisions, elongated cell

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FYPO:0002061 - inviable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0002360 - normal chromatin silencing at centromere

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FYPO:0005072 - normal protein localization to centromeric chromatin

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FYPO:0002389 - normal protein localization to heterochromatin at centromere outer repeat

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FYPO:0000089 - sensitive to methyl methanesulfonate

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Qualitative gene expression

PomGeneEx:0000019 - protein level decreased

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Quantitative gene expression

PBO:0006310 - protein level

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PBO:0011963 - RNA level

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Single locus phenotype

FYPO:0000146 - abnormal chromatin silencing at centromere

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FYPO:0000156 - abnormal chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0000169 - abnormal chromatin silencing at subtelomere

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FYPO:0000468 - abnormal mating type switching

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FYPO:0000059 - abnormal mitotic cell cycle

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FYPO:0000121 - abnormal sporulation

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FYPO:0004481 - abolished cell population growth at high temperature

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FYPO:0007334 - abolished chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat

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FYPO:0002922 - abolished histone H2B-K119 ubiquitination during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0002917 - abolished histone H3-K4 methylation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000912 - abolished protein ubiquitination during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000583 - abolished sporulation

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FYPO:0000251 - decreased cell population growth on galactose carbon source

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FYPO:0002827 - decreased chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0003096 - decreased histone H3-K9 methylation at centromere outer repeat during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0003571 - decreased histone H3-K9 methylation at silent mating-type cassette during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0003572 - decreased histone H3-K9 methylation at subtelomeric heterochromatin during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000883 - decreased histone H3-K9 trimethylation at centromere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000708 - decreased mating efficiency

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FYPO:0000846 - decreased protein degradation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0003300 - decreased protein degradation via N-end rule pathway during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001324 - decreased protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006599 - decreased protein localization to centromeric chromatin during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0002768 - decreased protein ubiquitination during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000584 - decreased sporulation frequency

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FYPO:0001355 - decreased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0001122 - elongated vegetative cell

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FYPO:0004540 - increased chromatin silencing

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FYPO:0006299 - increased chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat

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FYPO:0005063 - increased histone H3-K4 methylation at mating type locus during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005062 - increased histone H3-K4 methylation at telomere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005066 - increased histone H3-K9 methylation at centromere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005065 - increased histone H3-K9 methylation at mating type locus during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005064 - increased histone H3-K9 methylation at telomere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0007844 - increased histone H3-K9 monomethylation at centromere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001840 - increased minichromosome loss during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001327 - increased protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004237 - increased protein localization to heterochromatin at centromere outer repeat region

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FYPO:0002020 - increased RNA level during nitrogen starvation

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FYPO:0000825 - increased RNA level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001309 - increased viability in stationary phase

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FYPO:0001387 - loss of viability at high temperature

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FYPO:0006518 - loss of viability in G0

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FYPO:0001886 - meiotic cell cycle entry and sporulation in haploid

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FYPO:0003353 - normal DNA double-strand break formation at mating-type locus

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FYPO:0007553 - normal G1 to G0 transition

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FYPO:0004404 - normal growth on JM216

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FYPO:0004410 - normal growth on tetraplatin

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FYPO:0002920 - normal histone H3-K36 methylation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0007843 - normal nucleosome positioning at centromere

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FYPO:0002635 - normal protein ubiquitination during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0009031 - resistance to bleomycin

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FYPO:0003668 - resistance to caffeine during cellular response to hydroxyurea

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FYPO:0004025 - resistance to carbendazim

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FYPO:0002693 - resistance to diamide

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FYPO:0009085 - resistance to lithium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0009043 - resistance to potassium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0004325 - sensitive to 5-fluorouracil

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FYPO:0002642 - sensitive to amphotericin B

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FYPO:0001701 - sensitive to bortezomib

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FYPO:0000102 - sensitive to cisplatin

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FYPO:0007931 - sensitive to egtazic acid

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FYPO:0007928 - sensitive to ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

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FYPO:0000088 - sensitive to hydroxyurea

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FYPO:0000267 - sensitive to ionizing radiation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004405 - sensitive to JM335

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FYPO:0009088 - sensitive to magnesium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000089 - sensitive to methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0002641 - sensitive to micafungin

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FYPO:0002345 - sensitive to oxaliplatin

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FYPO:0000091 - sensitive to thiabendazole

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FYPO:0004407 - sensitive to triplatin tetranitrate

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FYPO:0000268 - sensitive to UV during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001234 - slow vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0000647 - vegetative cell lysis

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FYPO:0002215 - viable curved elongated vegetative cell

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FYPO:0001492 - viable elongated vegetative cell

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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Taxonomic conservation

PBO:0011065 - conserved in eukaryotes

PBO:0011071 - conserved in eukaryotes only

PBO:0011064 - conserved in fungi

PBO:0011069 - conserved in metazoa

PBO:0011070 - conserved in vertebrates

PBO:0006222 - predominantly single copy (one to one)

Protein features

IDNameInterPro nameDB name
PF00179UQ_conUBCPFAM
cd23790UBCc_UBE2A_2BCDD
PS00183UBC_1UBQ-conjugating_ASPROSITE_PATTERNS
PS50127UBC_2UBCPROSITE_PROFILES
SM00212ubc_7SMART
G3DSA:3.10.110.10:FF:000007FUNFAM
SSF54495UBC-likeUBQ-conjugating_enzyme/RWDSUPERFAMILY
G3DSA:3.10.110.10Ubiquitin Conjugating EnzymeUBQ-conjugating_enzyme/RWDGENE3D
PTHR24067UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2Ub_conjugating_enzyme-E2-likePANTHER
mobidb-lite-Disorderdisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Disorder

Orthologs

References / Literature

PB_REF:0000006 - Disease associations from Monarch via human-pombe orthologs
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Lee CY et al. Mol Cell 2011 Oct 21;44(2):225-34
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Grewal SI et al. Genetics 1998 Oct;150(2):563-76
PMID:11702950 - Phosphorylation of Mei2 and Ste11 by Pat1 kinase inhibits sexual differentiation via ubiquitin proteolysis and 14-3-3 protein in fission yeast.
Kitamura K et al. Dev Cell 2001 Sep;1(3):389-99
PMID:23209828 - Fission yeast 26S proteasome mutants are multi-drug resistant due to stabilization of the Pap1 transcription factor.
Penney M et al. PLoS One 2012;7(11):e50796
PMID:28162934 - S. pombe Uba1-Ubc15 Structure Reveals a Novel Regulatory Mechanism of Ubiquitin E2 Activity.
Lv Z et al. Mol Cell 2017 Feb 16;65(4):699-714.e6
PMID:10224243 - Caffeine-mediated override of checkpoint controls. A requirement for rhp6 (Schizosaccharomyces pombe).
Rowley R et al. Genetics 1999 May;152(1):61-71
PMID:11523791 - A homologue of the Rad18 postreplication repair gene is required for DNA damage responses throughout the fission yeast cell cycle.
Verkade HM et al. Mol Genet Genomics 2001 Aug;265(6):993-1003
PMID:16096059 - Regulation of nuclear proteasome by Rhp6/Ubc2 through ubiquitination and destruction of the sensor and anchor Cut8.
Takeda K et al. Cell 2005 Aug 12;122(3):393-405
PMID:27098497 - CRL4(Wdr70) regulates H2B monoubiquitination and facilitates Exo1-dependent resection.
Zeng M et al. Nat Commun 2016 Apr 21;7:11364
PMID:26771498 - A Proteome-wide Fission Yeast Interactome Reveals Network Evolution Principles from Yeasts to Human.
Vo TV et al. Cell 2016 Jan 14;164(1-2):310-323
PMID:17374714 - Ubiquitylation of histone H2B controls RNA polymerase II transcription elongation independently of histone H3 methylation.
Tanny JC et al. Genes Dev 2007 Apr 01;21(7):835-47
PMID:16823372 - ORFeome cloning and global analysis of protein localization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Matsuyama A et al. Nat Biotechnol 2006 Jul;24(7):841-7
PMID:35924983 - Genetic-interaction screens uncover novel biological roles and regulators of transcription factors in fission yeast.
Chatfield-Reed K et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2022 Aug 25;12(9)
PMID:12417737 - Two ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, Rhp6 and UbcX, regulate heterochromatin silencing in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Choi ES et al. Mol Cell Biol 2002 Dec;22(23):8366-74
PMID:25483073 - Chromosome segregation and organization are targets of 5'-Fluorouracil in eukaryotic cells.
Mojardín L et al. Cell Cycle 2015;14(2):206-18
PMID:28410370 - A systematic screen for morphological abnormalities during fission yeast sexual reproduction identifies a mechanism of actin aster formation for cell fusion.
Dudin O et al. PLoS Genet 2017 Apr;13(4):e1006721
PMID:9154838 - A ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in fission yeast that is essential for the onset of anaphase in mitosis.
Osaka F et al. Mol Cell Biol 1997 Jun;17(6):3388-97
PMID:7254221 - Spontaneous and UV-induced recombination in radiation-sensitive mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Grossenbacher-Grunder AM et al. Mutat Res 1981 Mar;81(1):37-48
PMID:23738021 - A genome-wide screening of potential target genes to enhance the antifungal activity of micafungin in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Zhou X et al. PLoS One 2013;8(5):e65904
PMID:24100010 - Spt6 regulates intragenic and antisense transcription, nucleosome positioning, and histone modifications genome-wide in fission yeast.
DeGennaro CM et al. Mol Cell Biol 2013 Dec;33(24):4779-92
PMID:37787768 - Broad functional profiling of fission yeast proteins using phenomics and machine learning.
Rodríguez-López M et al. Elife 2023 Oct 03;12
PMID:25356590 - Multifaceted genome control by Set1 Dependent and Independent of H3K4 methylation and the Set1C/COMPASS complex.
Mikheyeva IV et al. PLoS Genet 2014 Oct;10(10):e1004740
PMID:23697806 - A genome-wide resource of cell cycle and cell shape genes of fission yeast.
Hayles J et al. Open Biol 2013 May 22;3(5):130053
PMID:35075549 - Schizosaccharomyces pombe Fzo1 is subjected to the ubiquitin-proteasome-mediated degradation during the stationary phase.
Ahmad F et al. Int Microbiol 2022 May;25(2):397-404
PMID:166019 - Genetic control of radiation sensitivity in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
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PMID:17611416 - Bin1 homolog hob1 supports a Rad6-Set1 pathway of transcriptional repression in fission yeast.
Ramalingam A et al. Cell Cycle 2007 Jul 01;6(13):1655-62
PMID:23101633 - Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells.
Marguerat S et al. Cell 2012 Oct 26;151(3):671-83
PMID:17456468 - The plant homeodomain fingers of fission yeast Msc1 exhibit E3 ubiquitin ligase activity.
Dul BE et al. J Biol Chem 2007 Jun 22;282(25):18397-18406
PMID:14993467 - The involvement of Srs2 in post-replication repair and homologous recombination in fission yeast.
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PMID:25076038 - Large scale screening of genetic interaction with sgf73(+) in fission yeast.
Guo Y et al. Yi Chuan 2014 Jul;36(7):723-31
GO_REF:0000033 - Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
PMID:17363370 - HULC, a histone H2B ubiquitinating complex, modulates heterochromatin independent of histone methylation in fission yeast.
Zofall M et al. J Biol Chem 2007 May 11;282(19):14065-72
PMID:2184030 - The rhp6+ gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe: a structural and functional homolog of the RAD6 gene from the distantly related yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Reynolds P et al. EMBO J 1990 May;9(5):1423-30
PMID:24763107 - Absolute proteome and phosphoproteome dynamics during the cell cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Fission Yeast).
Carpy A et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014 Aug;13(8):1925-36
PMID:12511578 - Identification of Uhp1, a ubiquitinated histone-like protein, as a target/mediator of Rhp6 in mating-type silencing in fission yeast.
Naresh A et al. J Biol Chem 2003 Mar 14;278(11):9185-94
PMID:35820914 - Antagonistic effects of mitochondrial matrix and intermembrane space proteases on yeast aging.
Vega M et al. BMC Biol 2022 Jul 12;20(1):160
PMID:20473289 - Analysis of a genome-wide set of gene deletions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Kim DU et al. Nat Biotechnol 2010 Jun;28(6):617-623
PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N et al. Science 2011 May 20;332(6032):930-6
PMID:23348717 - Essential role of Ubr11, but not Ubr1, as an N-end rule ubiquitin ligase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Fujiwara H et al. Yeast 2013 Jan;30(1):1-11
PMID:26670050 - Regulation of mRNA Levels by Decay-Promoting Introns that Recruit the Exosome Specificity Factor Mmi1.
Kilchert C et al. Cell Rep 2015 Dec 22;13(11):2504-2515
PMID:28366642 - Spt5 Plays Vital Roles in the Control of Sense and Antisense Transcription Elongation.
Shetty A et al. Mol Cell 2017 Apr 06;66(1):77-88.e5
PMID:33260998 - High-Throughput Flow Cytometry Combined with Genetic Analysis Brings New Insights into the Understanding of Chromatin Regulation of Cellular Quiescence.
Zahedi Y et al. Int J Mol Sci 2020 Nov 27;21(23)
PMID:35908934 - Euchromatin factors HULC and Set1C affect heterochromatin organization and mating-type switching in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Esquivel-Chávez A et al. Genes Genet Syst 2022 Oct 18;97(3):123-138
PMID:38718864 - H2B oncohistones cause homologous recombination defect and genomic instability through reducing H2B monoubiquitination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
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PMID:39367033 - Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling of meiotic divisions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
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PMID:23416107 - Structure of a ubiquitin E1-E2 complex: insights to E1-E2 thioester transfer.
Olsen SK et al. Mol Cell 2013 Mar 07;49(5):884-96
PMID:9658208 - Sensitivity to cisplatin and platinum-containing compounds of Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad mutants.
Perego P et al. Mol Pharmacol 1998 Jul;54(1):213-9
PMID:9710635 - A novel function of the DNA repair gene rhp6 in mating-type silencing by chromatin remodeling in fission yeast.
Singh J et al. Mol Cell Biol 1998 Sep;18(9):5511-22