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protein coding gene - wpl1 (SPBC428.17c) - cohesin unloading factor (WAPL) Wpl1

Gene summary

Standard name
wpl1
Systematic ID
SPBC428.17c
Product
cohesin unloading factor (WAPL) Wpl1
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
UniProt ID
O94364
ORFeome ID
26/26E06
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome II: 474574..476728 reverse strand

Annotation

GO biological process

GO:0140588 - chromatin looping

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GO:0007129 - homologous chromosome pairing at meiosis

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GO:0007064 - mitotic sister chromatid cohesion

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GO cellular component

GO:0000228 - nuclear chromosome

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GO:0005634 - nucleus

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GO:0090695 - Wpl/Pds5 cohesin loading/unloading complex

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GO molecular function

GO:0016887 - ATP hydrolysis activity

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GO:0043008 - ATP-dependent protein binding

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GO:0140670 - cohesin unloader activity

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GO:0003677 - DNA binding

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GO:0005515 - protein 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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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0005642 - abnormal meiotic homologous chromosome biorientation with abnormal kinetochore orientation

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FYPO:0003165 - cut with abnormal chromosome segregation

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FYPO:0000082 - decreased cell population growth at high temperature

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

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FYPO:0002093 - decreased meiotic sister chromatid cohesion

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FYPO:0003913 - decreased minichromosome loss during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000460 - decreased mitotic centromeric sister chromatid cohesion

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FYPO:0001355 - decreased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0005898 - increased protein localization to centromeric chromatin during mitotic G1 phase

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FYPO:0005897 - increased protein localization to chromatin during mitotic G1 phase

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FYPO:0001038 - increased protein phosphorylation during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0002061 - inviable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0006670 - meiotic cell cycle entry in haploid cell

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FYPO:0000674 - normal cell population growth at high temperature

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FYPO:0002336 - normal chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0001839 - normal minichromosome loss

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FYPO:0007198 - normal mitotic centromeric sister chromatid cohesion

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FYPO:0001513 - normal mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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FYPO:0005072 - normal protein localization to centromeric chromatin

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FYPO:0005894 - normal protein localization to chromatin during mitotic G1 phase

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FYPO:0001357 - normal vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0001450 - resistance to cold

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FYPO:0000091 - sensitive to thiabendazole

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FYPO:0005634 - sister kinetochore dissociation in meiotic metaphase I with equational sister chromatid segregation in meiosis I

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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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:0007945 - abnormal homologous chromosome pairing at cis-acting homologous chromosome pairing region during meiotic prophase I

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FYPO:0000197 - abnormal horsetail movement

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FYPO:0002678 - abolished protein phosphorylation

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FYPO:0000705 - abolished protein-protein interaction

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FYPO:0001355 - decreased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0008189 - equational sister chromatid segregation during achiasmatic meiosis I

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FYPO:0007942 - increased length of chromatin loops during meiotic prophase I

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FYPO:0005898 - increased protein localization to centromeric chromatin during mitotic G1 phase

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FYPO:0005897 - increased protein localization to chromatin during mitotic G1 phase

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FYPO:0002680 - increased protein phosphorylation

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FYPO:0000674 - normal cell population growth at high temperature

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FYPO:0002336 - normal chromatin silencing at silent mating-type cassette

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FYPO:0001839 - normal minichromosome loss

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FYPO:0002390 - normal mitotic sister chromatid cohesion

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FYPO:0001357 - normal vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0001310 - normal viability in stationary phase

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FYPO:0002693 - resistance to diamide

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FYPO:0009038 - resistance to egtazic acid

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FYPO:0001583 - resistance to lithium

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

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FYPO:0005193 - resistance to torin1

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FYPO:0000084 - sensitive to 6-azauracil

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FYPO:0000842 - sensitive to ethanol during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000087 - sensitive to hydrogen peroxide

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FYPO:0000797 - sensitive to tert-butyl hydroperoxide

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FYPO:0005634 - sister kinetochore dissociation in meiotic metaphase I with equational sister chromatid segregation in meiosis I

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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
PF07814WAPLWAPL_CPFAM
G3DSA:1.25.10.10ARM-likeGENE3D
PTHR22100WINGS APART-LIKE PROTEIN HOMOLOGWAPLPANTHER
mobidb-lite-Disorderdisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Disorder
mobidb-lite-Polardisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Polar

Orthologs

References / Literature

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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:35333350 - Rec8 Cohesin-mediated Axis-loop chromatin architecture is required for meiotic recombination.
Sakuno T et al. Nucleic Acids Res 2022 Apr 22;50(7):3799-3816
PMID:29358048 - Establishment of DNA-DNA Interactions by the Cohesin Ring.
Murayama Y et al. Cell 2018 Jan 25;172(3):465-477.e15
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
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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: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: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: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:37288768 - Altered cohesin dynamics and H3K9 modifications contribute to mitotic defects in the cbf11Δ lipid metabolism mutant.
Vishwanatha A et al. J Cell Sci 2023 Jun 01;136(11)
PMID:27984725 - CDK Substrate Phosphorylation and Ordering the Cell Cycle.
Swaffer MP et al. Cell 2016 Dec 15;167(7):1750-1761.e16
PMID:18079700 - Cell-cycle regulation of cohesin stability along fission yeast chromosomes.
Bernard P et al. EMBO J 2008 Jan 09;27(1):111-21
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:28343969 - Pds5 Regulates Sister-Chromatid Cohesion and Chromosome Bi-orientation through a Conserved Protein Interaction Module.
Goto Y et al. Curr Biol 2017 Apr 03;27(7):1005-1012
PMID:28382430 - DNA Topoisomerase II modulates acetyl-regulation of cohesin-mediated chromosome dynamics.
Lin SJ et al. Curr Genet 2017 Oct;63(5):923-930
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:31278118 - Cohesin Impedes Heterochromatin Assembly in Fission Yeast Cells Lacking Pds5.
Folco HD et al. Genetics 2019 Sep;213(1):127-141
PMID:10759889 - Large-scale screening of intracellular protein localization in living fission yeast cells by the use of a GFP-fusion genomic DNA library.
Ding DQ et al. Genes Cells 2000 Mar;5(3):169-90
PMID:38830897 - Sororin is an evolutionary conserved antagonist of WAPL.
Prusén Mota I et al. Nat Commun 2024 Jun 03;15(1):4729
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:38448160 - Phosphorylation of Rec8 cohesin complexes regulates mono-orientation of kinetochores in meiosis I.
Liu Y et al. Life Sci Alliance 2024 May;7(5)
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: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:21300781 - Psm3 acetylation on conserved lysine residues is dispensable for viability in fission yeast but contributes to Eso1-mediated sister chromatid cohesion by antagonizing Wpl1.
Feytout A et al. Mol Cell Biol 2011 Apr;31(8):1771-86
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:26173815 - Genome-wide screen of fission yeast mutants for sensitivity to 6-azauracil, an inhibitor of transcriptional elongation.
Zhou H et al. Yeast 2015 Oct;32(10):643-55
PMID:39476757 - Characterization of Ksg1 protein kinase-dependent phosphoproteome in the fission yeast S. pombe.
Cipak L et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2024 Oct 25;736:150895
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.
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PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
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PMID:26687354 - DNA Entry into and Exit out of the Cohesin Ring by an Interlocking Gate Mechanism.
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PMID:31072933 - Suppressor screening reveals common kleisin-hinge interaction in condensin and cohesin, but different modes of regulation.
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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: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:21979813 - Acetylation regulates monopolar attachment at multiple levels during meiosis I in fission yeast.
Kagami A et al. EMBO Rep 2011 Oct 28;12(11):1189-95
PMID:28438891 - A second Wpl1 anti-cohesion pathway requires dephosphorylation of fission yeast kleisin Rad21 by PP4.
Birot A et al. EMBO J 2017 May 15;36(10):1364-1378
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