protein coding gene - act1 (SPBC32H8.12c) - actin Act1

Gene summary

Standard name

act1

Systematic ID

SPBC32H8.12c

Product

actin Act1

Organism

Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)

Synonyms

cps8, pi012

UniProt ID

P10989

ORFeome ID

50/50C12

Characterisation status

biological role published

Feature type

mRNA gene

Genomic location

chromosome II: 1475485..1477333 reverse strand

Annotation

Protein features

Orthologs

• ACTA1 (HGNC:129) Homo sapiens
• ACTA2 (HGNC:130) Homo sapiens
• ACTC1 (HGNC:143) Homo sapiens
• ACTG1 (HGNC:144) Homo sapiens
• ACTG2 (HGNC:145) Homo sapiens
• act1 (SJAG_03145) Schizosaccharomyces japonicus
• ACT1 (YFL039C) Saccharomyces cerevisiae

References / Literature

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PMID:27075176 - The F-actin bundler α-actinin Ain1 is tailored for ring assembly and constriction during cytokinesis in fission yeast.

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PMID:10371213 - Identification of cold-sensitive mutations in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe actin locus.

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PMID:26412298 - A Degenerate Cohort of Yeast Membrane Trafficking DUBs Mediates Cell Polarity and Survival.

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PMID:15620689 - Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and actin associate with RNA polymerase II and interact with its Rpb7 subunit.

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PMID:19430462 - Decapping is preceded by 3' uridylation in a novel pathway of bulk mRNA turnover.

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PMID:8978670 - Fission yeast Sop2p: a novel and evolutionarily conserved protein that interacts with Arp3p and modulates profilin function.

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PMID:21832151 - Endocytosis is essential for dynamic translocation of a syntaxin 1 orthologue during fission yeast meiosis.

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PMID:32313168 - Serine catabolism produces ROS, sensitizes cells to actin dysfunction, and suppresses cell growth in fission yeast.

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PMID:17353264 - Efficient RNA polyuridylation by noncanonical poly(A) polymerases.

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PMID:11294907 - Roles of a fimbrin and an alpha-actinin-like protein in fission yeast cell polarization and cytokinesis.

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PMID:38718864 - H2B oncohistones cause homologous recombination defect and genomic instability through reducing H2B monoubiquitination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:26404184 - High Confidence Fission Yeast SUMO Conjugates Identified by Tandem Denaturing Affinity Purification.

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PMID:22905165 - The integrity of the cytokinesis machinery under stress conditions requires the glucan synthase Bgs1p and its regulator Cfh3p.

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PMID:20587778 - Quantitative analysis of the mechanism of endocytic actin patch assembly and disassembly in fission yeast.

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PMID:23101633 - Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells.

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PB_REF:0000006 - Disease associations from Monarch via human-pombe orthologs

PMID:28282023 - Competition between Tropomyosin, Fimbrin, and ADF/Cofilin drives their sorting to distinct actin filament networks.

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PMID:30155942 - Sfh1, an essential component of the RSC chromatin remodeling complex, maintains genome integrity in fission yeast.

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PMID:11460168 - A MAP kinase-dependent actin checkpoint ensures proper spindle orientation in fission yeast.

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PMID:18346214 - btn1 affects endocytosis, polarization of sterol-rich membrane domains and polarized growth in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:11112691 - Two type V myosins with non-overlapping functions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: Myo52 is concerned with growth polarity and cytokinesis, Myo51 is a component of the cytokinetic actin ring.

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PMID:23755256 - The Sm complex is required for the processing of non-coding RNAs by the exosome.

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PMID:27501521 - Analysis of biophysical and functional consequences of tropomyosin-fluorescent protein fusions.

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PMID:34496258 - Transcription and chromatin-based surveillance mechanism controls suppression of cryptic antisense transcription.

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PMID:10547441 - Ultrastructure of cell wall of the cps8 actin mutant cell in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:25720772 - Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals pathways for coordination of cell growth and division by the conserved fission yeast kinase pom1.

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PMID:22024167 - Actin filament severing by cofilin is more important for assembly than constriction of the cytokinetic contractile ring.

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PMID:26537787 - Targeting of SUMO substrates to a Cdc48-Ufd1-Npl4 segregase and STUbL pathway in fission yeast.

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PMID:33823663 - A TOR (target of rapamycin) and nutritional phosphoproteome of fission yeast reveals novel targets in networks conserved in humans.

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PMID:14534314 - Mediator influences Schizosaccharomyces pombe RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription in vitro.

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PMID:16823372 - ORFeome cloning and global analysis of protein localization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:22891259 - Fission yeast Ags1 confers the essential septum strength needed for safe gradual cell abscission.

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PMID:20705466 - Fimbrin and tropomyosin competition regulates endocytosis and cytokinesis kinetics in fission yeast.

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GO_REF:0000033 - Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees

PMID:8972853 - Fission yeast genes which disrupt mitotic chromosome segregation when overexpressed.

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PMID:28914606 - Nanoscale architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe contractile ring.

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PMID:32915139 - Stress-activated MAPK signaling controls fission yeast actomyosin ring integrity by modulating formin For3 levels.

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PMID:9573052 - Pom1p, a fission yeast protein kinase that provides positional information for both polarized growth and cytokinesis.

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PMID:30726745 - Fission Yeast NDR/LATS Kinase Orb6 Regulates Exocytosis via Phosphorylation of the Exocyst Complex.

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PMID:24196839 - Fission yeast tropomyosin specifies directed transport of myosin-V along actin cables.

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PMID:28808035 - Fission yeast myosin Myo2 is down-regulated in actin affinity by light chain phosphorylation.

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PMID:18257517 - Phosphoproteome analysis of fission yeast.

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PMID:15537703 - The nuclear kinase Lsk1p positively regulates the septation initiation network and promotes the successful completion of cytokinesis in response to perturbation of the actomyosin ring in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:23697806 - A genome-wide resource of cell cycle and cell shape genes of fission yeast.

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PMID:16256112 - Stg 1 is a novel SM22/transgelin-like actin-modulating protein in fission yeast.

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PMID:18976909 - Genotype-phenotype correlations in ACTA1 mutations that cause congenital myopathies.

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PMID:28218250 - Chromatin remodeller Fun30 Fft3 induces nucleosome disassembly to facilitate RNA polymerase II elongation.

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PMID:23231582 - Genome-wide characterization of the phosphate starvation response in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:23297348 - Comprehensive proteomics analysis reveals new substrates and regulators of the fission yeast clp1/cdc14 phosphatase.

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PMID:24167549 - A molecular evolution approach to study the roles of tropomyosin in fission yeast.

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PMID:23148219 - Insertions within the actin core of actin-related protein 3 (Arp3) modulate branching nucleation by Arp2/3 complex.

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PMID:16141239 - Endocytosis in fission yeast is spatially associated with the actin cytoskeleton during polarised cell growth and cytokinesis.

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PMID:28869610 - Mutations in ACTRT1 and its enhancer RNA elements lead to aberrant activation of Hedgehog signaling in inherited and sporadic basal cell carcinomas.

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PMID:41236477 - Actin arginylation alters myosin engagement and F-actin patterning despite structural conservation.

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PMID:33378674 - The INO80 Complex Regulates Epigenetic Inheritance of Heterochromatin.

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PMID:15743909 - Profilin-mediated competition between capping protein and formin Cdc12p during cytokinesis in fission yeast.

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PMID:21723825 - Cofilin-linked changes in actin filament flexibility promote severing.

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PMID:31748520 - Chaperone-mediated ordered assembly of the SAGA and NuA4 transcription co-activator complexes in yeast.

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PMID:26167880 - SR protein kinases promote splicing of nonconsensus introns.

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PMID:9606213 - FH3, a domain found in formins, targets the fission yeast formin Fus1 to the projection tip during conjugation.

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PMID:19933844 - Fission yeast Iec1-ino80-mediated nucleosome eviction regulates nucleotide and phosphate metabolism.

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PMID:29084823 - Phosphorylation of the RNA-binding protein Zfs1 modulates sexual differentiation in fission yeast.

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PMID:1524835 - Isolation and characterization of mutants supersensitive to the spindle poison, isopropyl N-3-chlorophenyl carbamate (CIPC) in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:28338873 - Molecular dissection of the actin-binding ability of the fission yeast α-actinin, Ain1, in vitro and in vivo.

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PMID:8292390 - A novel mutation involved in the mitotic checkpoint in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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GO_REF:0000024 - Manual transfer of experimentally-verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs by curator judgment of sequence similarity.

PMID:23770677 - In vitro contraction of cytokinetic ring depends on myosin II but not on actin dynamics.

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PMID:17202724 - Localization of type I myosin and F-actin to the leading edge region of the forespore membrane in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:16224022 - Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast.

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PMID:19915592 - An acetylated form of histone H2A.Z regulates chromosome architecture in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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GO_REF:0000111 - Gene Ontology annotations Inferred by Curator (IC) using at least one Inferred by Sequence Similarity (ISS) annotation to support the inference

PMID:25451933 - Aip1 promotes actin filament severing by cofilin and regulates constriction of the cytokinetic contractile ring.

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PMID:37970674 - SUMOylation regulates Lem2 function in centromere clustering and silencing.

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PMID:39156640 - Fission yeast Bgs1 glucan synthase participates in the control of growth polarity and membrane traffic.

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PMID:12237855 - Genome-wide search of Schizosaccharomyces pombe genes causing overexpression-mediated cell cycle defects.

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PMID:30709916 - A Cdc42 GEF, Gef1, through endocytosis organizes F-BAR Cdc15 along the actomyosin ring and promotes concentric furrowing.

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PMID:18562692 - Latrunculin A delays anaphase onset in fission yeast by disrupting an Ase1-independent pathway controlling mitotic spindle stability.

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PMID:25543282 - Profilin regulates F-actin network homeostasis by favoring formin over Arp2/3 complex.

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PMID:19911051 - The Schizosaccharomyces pombe JmjC-protein, Msc1, prevents H2A.Z localization in centromeric and subtelomeric chromatin domains.

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PMID:11694585 - Interactions among a fimbrin, a capping protein, and an actin-depolymerizing factor in organization of the fission yeast actin cytoskeleton.

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PMID:9490631 - F-actin distribution and function during sexual differentiation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:26542710 - Identification and characterization of Csh3 as an SH3 protein that interacts with fission yeast Cap1.

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PMID:24442611 - Endogenous U2·U5·U6 snRNA complexes in S. pombe are intron lariat spliceosomes.

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PMID:35811551 - Mitotic checkpoint gene expression is tuned by codon usage bias.

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PMID:42691030 - The G-patch protein Cwf28 interacts with the RNA helicase Cdc28 in catalytically active spliceosomes in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:8774852 - An actin point-mutation neighboring the 'hydrophobic plug' causes defects in the maintenance of cell polarity and septum organization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:11056543 - Type II myosin regulatory light chain relieves auto-inhibition of myosin-heavy-chain function.

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PMID:10526238 - Overproduction of elongation factor 1alpha, an essential translational component, causes aberrant cell morphology by affecting the control of growth polarity in fission yeast.

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PMID:20434336 - The cortical ER network limits the permissive zone for actomyosin ring assembly.

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PMID:8207058 - The Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc3+ gene encodes a profilin essential for cytokinesis.

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PMID:25356590 - Multifaceted genome control by Set1 Dependent and Independent of H3K4 methylation and the Set1C/COMPASS complex.

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PMID:21885283 - Distinct roles for F-BAR proteins Cdc15p and Bzz1p in actin polymerization at sites of endocytosis in fission yeast.

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PMID:36200823 - The chromatin remodeler RSC prevents ectopic CENP-A propagation into pericentromeric heterochromatin at the chromatin boundary.

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PMID:39358553 - Ageing-associated long non-coding RNA extends lifespan and reduces translation in non-dividing cells.

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PMID:9459302 - Identification of Myo3, a second type-II myosin heavy chain in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

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PMID:21652630 - Characterization of Mug33 reveals complementary roles for actin cable-dependent transport and exocyst regulators in fission yeast exocytosis.

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PMID:24763107 - Absolute proteome and phosphoproteome dynamics during the cell cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Fission Yeast).

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