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protein coding gene - leo1 (SPBC13E7.08c) - RNA polymerase II associated Paf1 complex subunit Leo1

Gene summary

Standard name
leo1
Systematic ID
SPBC13E7.08c
Product
RNA polymerase II associated Paf1 complex subunit Leo1
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
UniProt ID
Q9P6R2
ORFeome ID
44/44G11
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome II: 3052520..3055140 reverse strand

Annotation

GO biological process

GO:0033696 - heterochromatin boundary formation

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GO:0070828 - heterochromatin organization

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GO:0032968 - positive regulation of transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II

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GO cellular component

GO:0016593 - Cdc73/Paf1 complex

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GO:0005634 - nucleus

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GO molecular function

GO:0005515 - protein binding

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GO:0003723 - RNA binding

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GO:1990269 - RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain phosphoserine binding

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Modification

MOD:00046 - O-phospho-L-serine

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MOD:00047 - O-phospho-L-threonine

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MOD:00048 - O4'-phospho-L-tyrosine

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MOD:00696 - phosphorylated residue

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MOD:01149 - sumoylated lysine

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MOD:01148 - ubiquitinylated lysine

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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0003411 - decreased chromatin silencing at centromere inner repeat

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FYPO:0006993 - decreased chromatin silencing at centromere otr1R

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FYPO:0003412 - decreased chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat

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

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FYPO:0004604 - decreased chromatin silencing at subtelomere

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FYPO:0005533 - decreased histone H4-K16 acetylation at boundary element IRC1L during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004542 - increased chromatin silencing at subtelomere

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FYPO:0001740 - increased gross chromosomal rearrangement

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FYPO:0006369 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at heterochromatin domain during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006373 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at heterochromatin island during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006361 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at subtelomeric heterochromatin during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006995 - normal chromatin silencing at centromere inner repeat

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FYPO:0003555 - normal chromatin silencing at subtelomere

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FYPO:0007001 - normal histone exchange at pericentric heterochromatin

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FYPO:0007002 - normal histone exchange at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0007000 - normal histone exchange at transposable element

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FYPO:0008380 - normal histone H2A phosphorylation during cellular response to camptothecin

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FYPO:0006989 - normal histone H3-K9 dimethylation at transposable element during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001839 - normal minichromosome loss

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FYPO:0006368 - normal spatial extent of centromeric heterochromatin assembly

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FYPO:0006986 - normal spatial extent of heterochromatin assembly to boundary element IRL

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FYPO:0000091 - sensitive to thiabendazole

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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:0007471 - abnormal heterochromatin organization during G0

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FYPO:0009053 - decreased cell population growth on glutamate nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009092 - decreased cell population growth on lysine and serine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0000250 - decreased cell population growth on proline nitrogen source

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FYPO:0003094 - decreased centromeric outer repeat transcript level

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FYPO:0004748 - decreased histone exchange at pericentric heterochromatin

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FYPO:0007004 - decreased histone exchange at protein coding gene during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006997 - decreased histone exchange at silent mating-type cassette during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006998 - decreased histone exchange at transposable element during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0007473 - decreased histone exchange during G0

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FYPO:0005533 - decreased histone H4-K16 acetylation at boundary element IRC1L during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005534 - decreased histone H4-K16 acetylation at telomere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005226 - decreased level of ubiquitinated protein in cell

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FYPO:0001324 - decreased protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005531 - decreased protein localization to chromatin at boundary element IRC1L

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FYPO:0005286 - heterochromatin assembly beyond boundary element IRC1L

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FYPO:0006985 - heterochromatin assembly beyond boundary element IRL

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FYPO:0009094 - increased cell population growth on lysine and proline nitrogen source

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FYPO:0009072 - increased cell population growth on lysine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0000636 - increased cell population growth rate

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FYPO:0004541 - increased chromatin silencing at centromere inner repeat

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FYPO:0004542 - increased chromatin silencing at subtelomere

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FYPO:0001740 - increased gross chromosomal rearrangement

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FYPO:0000875 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at centromere inner repeat during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006369 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at heterochromatin domain during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006373 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at heterochromatin island during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006268 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at protein coding gene during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006987 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at silent mating-type cassette during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006361 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at subtelomeric heterochromatin during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004138 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at telomere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006988 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation at transposable element during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0007468 - increased histone H3-K9 dimethylation during G0

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FYPO:0007469 - increased histone H3-K9 trimethylation during G0

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FYPO:0006990 - increased spatial extent of heterochromatin assembly at protein coding gene

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FYPO:0004749 - increased spatial extent of subtelomeric heterochromatin assembly

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FYPO:0006518 - loss of viability in G0

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FYPO:0000245 - loss of viability in stationary phase

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FYPO:0006996 - normal antisense RNA level

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FYPO:0006995 - normal chromatin silencing at centromere inner repeat

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FYPO:0006992 - normal chromatin silencing at centromere otr1R

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FYPO:0004742 - normal chromatin silencing at centromere outer repeat

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FYPO:0007553 - normal G1 to G0 transition

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FYPO:0002620 - normal growth on trichostatin A

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FYPO:0007003 - normal histone exchange at tRNA genes

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FYPO:0008380 - normal histone H2A phosphorylation during cellular response to camptothecin

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FYPO:0000862 - normal histone H3-K9 dimethylation at centromere during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000472 - normal mating type switching

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FYPO:0001839 - normal minichromosome loss

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FYPO:0005529 - normal protein localization to chromatin at boundary element IRC1L

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FYPO:0001317 - normal RNA level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0006991 - normal spatial extent of heterochromatin assembly at protein coding gene

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FYPO:0001125 - normal vegetative cell shape

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FYPO:0009031 - resistance to bleomycin

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FYPO:0000763 - resistance to cadmium

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FYPO:0000073 - resistance to caffeine

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FYPO:0009038 - resistance to egtazic acid

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FYPO:0009034 - resistance to ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

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FYPO:0009087 - resistance to magnesium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000830 - resistance to vanadate

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FYPO:0001501 - sensitive to brefeldin A

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FYPO:0000104 - sensitive to cycloheximide

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FYPO:0000799 - sensitive to diamide

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FYPO:0000842 - sensitive to ethanol during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000785 - sensitive to formamide

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FYPO:0000087 - sensitive to hydrogen peroxide

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FYPO:0001719 - sensitive to lithium

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FYPO:0009084 - sensitive to lithium chloride and methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0009086 - sensitive to lithium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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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:0001214 - sensitive to potassium chloride

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FYPO:0009082 - sensitive to potassium chloride and methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0002617 - sensitive to sodium butyrate

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FYPO:0005889 - sensitive to sodium chloride

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FYPO:0009090 - sensitive to sodium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0005252 - sensitive to tamoxifen

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FYPO:0002701 - sensitive to torin1

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FYPO:0000115 - sensitive to valproic acid

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FYPO:0001234 - slow vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0000024 - stubby vegetative cell

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0002177 - viable vegetative cell with normal cell morphology

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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
PF04004Leo1Leo1PFAM
PTHR23146LEO1 PROTEINLeo1PANTHER
CoilCoilCOILS
mobidb-lite-Disorderdisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Disorder
mobidb-lite-Negative-Polyelectrolytedisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Negative-Polyelectrolyte
mobidb-lite-Polyampholytedisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Polyampholyte

Orthologs

References / Literature

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Ugolini I et al. Mol Cell 2022 Dec 01;82(23):4443-4457.e9
PMID:24957674 - Yeast X-chromosome-associated protein 5 (Xap5) functions with H2A.Z to suppress aberrant transcripts.
Anver S et al. EMBO Rep 2014 Aug;15(8):894-902
GO_REF:0000033 - Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
PMID:25720772 - Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals pathways for coordination of cell growth and division by the conserved fission yeast kinase pom1.
Kettenbach AN et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2015 May;14(5):1275-87
PMID:26567340 - Genome-wide Screening of Regulators of Catalase Expression: ROLE OF A TRANSCRIPTION COMPLEX AND HISTONE AND tRNA MODIFICATION COMPLEXES ON ADAPTATION TO STRESS.
García P et al. J Biol Chem 2016 Jan 08;291(2):790-9
PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N et al. Science 2011 May 20;332(6032):930-6
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:18818364 - Conservation and rewiring of functional modules revealed by an epistasis map in fission yeast.
Roguev A et al. Science 2008 Oct 17;322(5900):405-10
PMID:30355493 - Expanded Interactome of the Intrinsically Disordered Protein Dss1.
Schenstrøm SM et al. Cell Rep 2018 Oct 23;25(4):862-870
PMID:30652128 - Heterochromatin suppresses gross chromosomal rearrangements at centromeres by repressing Tfs1/TFIIS-dependent transcription.
Okita AK et al. Commun Biol 2019;2:17
PMID:31315658 - Leo1 is essential for the dynamic regulation of heterochromatin and gene expression during cellular quiescence.
Oya E et al. Epigenetics Chromatin 2019 Jul 17;12(1):45
PMID:37615341 - Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rtf2 is important for replication fork barrier activity of RTS1 via splicing of Rtf1 .
Budden AM et al. Elife 2023 Aug 24;12
PMID:23050226 - A genetic screen to discover pathways affecting cohesin function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe identifies chromatin effectors.
Chen Z et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2012 Oct;2(10):1161-8
PMID:18931302 - Significant conservation of synthetic lethal genetic interaction networks between distantly related eukaryotes.
Dixon SJ et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 Oct 28;105(43):16653-8
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: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:21712547 - Mitotic substrates of the kinase aurora with roles in chromatin regulation identified through quantitative phosphoproteomics of fission yeast.
Koch A et al. Sci Signal 2011 Jun 28;4(179):rs6
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:30726745 - Fission Yeast NDR/LATS Kinase Orb6 Regulates Exocytosis via Phosphorylation of the Exocyst Complex.
Tay YD et al. Cell Rep 2019 Feb 05;26(6):1654-1667.e7
PMID:39367033 - Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling of meiotic divisions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Sivakova B et al. Sci Rep 2024 Oct 04;14(1):23105
PMID:33823663 - A TOR (target of rapamycin) and nutritional phosphoproteome of fission yeast reveals novel targets in networks conserved in humans.
Halova L et al. Open Biol 2021 Apr;11(4):200405
PMID:34731638 - The histone chaperone FACT facilitates heterochromatin spreading by regulating histone turnover and H3K9 methylation states.
Murawska M et al. Cell Rep 2021 Nov 02;37(5):109944
PMID:29996109 - Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals the Signaling Dynamics of Cell-Cycle Kinases in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Swaffer MP et al. Cell Rep 2018 Jul 10;24(2):503-514
PMID:28218250 - Chromatin remodeller Fun30 Fft3 induces nucleosome disassembly to facilitate RNA polymerase II elongation.
Lee J et al. Nat Commun 2017 Feb 20;8:14527
PMID:35157728 - TOR complex 2 contributes to regulation of gene expression via inhibiting Gcn5 recruitment to subtelomeric and DNA replication stress genes.
Cohen A et al. PLoS Genet 2022 Feb;18(2):e1010061
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:26537787 - Targeting of SUMO substrates to a Cdc48-Ufd1-Npl4 segregase and STUbL pathway in fission yeast.
Køhler JB et al. Nat Commun 2015 Nov 05;6:8827
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:37787768 - Broad functional profiling of fission yeast proteins using phenomics and machine learning.
Rodríguez-López M et al. Elife 2023 Oct 03;12
PMID:26404184 - High Confidence Fission Yeast SUMO Conjugates Identified by Tandem Denaturing Affinity Purification.
Nie M et al. Sci Rep 2015 Sep 25;5:14389
PMID:35172472 - Knockdown of vps54 aggravates tamoxifen-induced cytotoxicity in fission yeast.
Lee S et al. Genomics Inform 2021 Dec;19(4):e39
PMID:37970674 - SUMOylation regulates Lem2 function in centromere clustering and silencing.
Strachan J et al. J Cell Sci 2023 Dec 01;136(23)
PMID:40015273 - A comprehensive Schizosaccharomyces pombe atlas of physical transcription factor interactions with proteins and chromatin.
Skribbe M et al. Mol Cell 2025 Feb 19;
PMID:38971312 - TORC2 is required for accumulation of γH2A in response to DNA damage.
Cohen A et al. J Biol Chem 2024 Jul 04;:107531
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)
GO_REF:0000024 - Manual transfer of experimentally-verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs by curator judgment of sequence similarity.
PMID:25972440 - Global regulation of heterochromatin spreading by Leo1.
Verrier L et al. Open Biol 2015 May;5(5)
PMID:23861937 - Genome-wide screening for genes associated with valproic acid sensitivity in fission yeast.
Zhang L et al. PLoS One 2013;8(7):e68738
PMID:27298342 - Identification of S-phase DNA damage-response targets in fission yeast reveals conservation of damage-response networks.
Willis NA et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016 Jun 28;113(26):E3676-85
PMID:23695164 - Cross-species protein interactome mapping reveals species-specific wiring of stress response pathways.
Das J et al. Sci Signal 2013 May 21;6(276):ra38
PMID:28784663 - The 19S proteasome is directly involved in the regulation of heterochromatin spreading in fission yeast.
Seo HD et al. J Biol Chem 2017 Oct 13;292(41):17144-17155
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:29214404 - The 19S proteasome regulates subtelomere silencing and facultative heterochromatin formation in fission yeast.
Seo HD et al. Curr Genet 2018 Jun;64(3):741-752
PMID:39705284 - Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses reveal that TORC1 is reactivated by pheromone signaling during sexual reproduction in fission yeast.
Bérard M et al. PLoS Biol 2024 Dec 20;22(12):e3002963
PMID:24385927 - The PAF complex and Prf1/Rtf1 delineate distinct Cdk9-dependent pathways regulating transcription elongation in fission yeast.
Mbogning J et al. PLoS Genet 2013;9(12):e1004029
PMID:26518661 - The Paf1 complex factors Leo1 and Paf1 promote local histone turnover to modulate chromatin states in fission yeast.
Sadeghi L et al. EMBO Rep 2015 Dec;16(12):1673-87
PMID:32366382 - Spt5 Phosphorylation and the Rtf1 Plus3 Domain Promote Rtf1 Function through Distinct Mechanisms.
Chen JJ et al. Mol Cell Biol 2020 Jul 14;40(15)
PMID:22681890 - Hierarchical modularity and the evolution of genetic interactomes across species.
Ryan CJ et al. Mol Cell 2012 Jun 08;46(5):691-704
PMID:25452419 - Parallel profiling of fission yeast deletion mutants for proliferation and for lifespan during long-term quiescence.
Sideri T et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2014 Dec 01;5(1):145-55
PMID:34250083 - Barcode sequencing and a high-throughput assay for chronological lifespan uncover ageing-associated genes in fission yeast.
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