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protein coding gene - cut1 (SPCC5E4.04) - separase/separin

Gene summary

Standard name
cut1
Systematic ID
SPCC5E4.04
Product
separase/separin
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
Synonyms
ptr4
UniProt ID
P18296
ORFeome ID
31/31B09
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome III: 643409..649578 forward strand

Annotation

GO biological process

GO:0006974 - DNA damage response

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GO:0051307 - meiotic chromosome separation

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GO:0140013 - meiotic nuclear division

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GO:0051306 - mitotic sister chromatid separation

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GO cellular component

GO:0005829 - cytosol

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GO:0072686 - mitotic spindle

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GO:1990023 - mitotic spindle midzone

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GO:0044732 - mitotic spindle pole body

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GO:0005634 - nucleus

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GO:1990520 - separase-securin complex

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GO molecular function

GO:0004197 - cysteine-type endopeptidase activity

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GO:0004175 - endopeptidase activity

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Modification

MOD:00046 - O-phospho-L-serine

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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0000608 - abnormal cell cycle arrest in mitotic M phase

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FYPO:0004088 - abnormal cytoplasmic microtubules

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FYPO:0001791 - abnormal mitotic spindle pole body duplication

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FYPO:0001425 - abnormal negative regulation of mitotic DNA replication initiation resulting in complete rereplication

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FYPO:0000681 - abnormal sporulation resulting in formation of two-spore ascus

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FYPO:0000705 - abolished protein-protein interaction

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FYPO:0005055 - binucleate multiseptate cell, septa grouped

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FYPO:0003165 - cut with abnormal chromosome segregation

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FYPO:0007404 - decreased protein degradation during mitotic anaphase

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FYPO:0005349 - increased spindle pole body-led chromosome movement during mitotic interphase

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FYPO:0001042 - inviable after spore germination, single or double cell division

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FYPO:0003763 - inviable aseptate mononucleate vegetative cell

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FYPO:0000839 - inviable elongated mononucleate aseptate cell

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FYPO:0002083 - inviable swollen elongated cell with enlarged nucleus

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FYPO:0001489 - inviable vegetative cell

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FYPO:0002061 - inviable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0003756 - multiple mitotic spindles with abolished sister chromatid separation

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FYPO:0006646 - normal duration of mitotic prometaphase

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FYPO:0001513 - normal mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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FYPO:0001380 - normal nuclear morphology during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000673 - normal septum assembly

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FYPO:0001357 - normal vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0007859 - nuclear division in absence of mitotic spindle

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FYPO:0005347 - pointed nucleus during mitotic interphase

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FYPO:0000111 - sensitive to rapamycin

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FYPO:0001234 - slow vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0006822 - viable small vegetative cell with normal cell growth rate

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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Protein features

PBO:0111755 - TPR repeat protein

Quantitative gene expression

PBO:0006310 - protein level

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PBO:0011963 - RNA level

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Single locus phenotype

FYPO:0000059 - abnormal mitotic cell cycle

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FYPO:0001946 - abolished mitotic sister chromatid separation

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FYPO:0001179 - abolished protein localization during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004754 - abolished protein localization to mitotic spindle during mitosis

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FYPO:0004412 - abolished protein localization to mitotic spindle midzone during anaphase

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FYPO:0004830 - arrested mitotic spindle elongation during anaphase B

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FYPO:0004418 - cut cell with decreased poly(A)+ mRNA export from nucleus

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FYPO:0001055 - cut following normal mitotic chromosome condensation

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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:0000476 - decreased frequency of meiosis

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FYPO:0005684 - increased duration of mitotic prometaphase

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FYPO:0003119 - increased nuclear polyadenylated mRNA level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0003611 - increased protein level during meiosis

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FYPO:0001327 - increased protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000314 - inviable after spore germination with elongated germ tube

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FYPO:0002303 - inviable mononucleate monoseptate vegetative cell with anucleate compartment

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FYPO:0001489 - inviable vegetative cell

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FYPO:0002061 - inviable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0003758 - mitotic spindle elongation without chromosome separation

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FYPO:0002672 - normal growth on rapamycin

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FYPO:0004099 - normal mitotic chromosome condensation

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FYPO:0003762 - normal mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint

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FYPO:0004397 - normal protein export from nucleus during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004121 - normal protein import into nucleus during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000833 - normal protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004328 - normal protein localization during mitosis

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FYPO:0000703 - normal protein-protein interaction

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FYPO:0000840 - normal RNA level

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FYPO:0001357 - normal vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0000783 - protein mislocalized to cytoplasm during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0005000 - protein mislocalized to nucleus during mitotic interphase

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FYPO:0004513 - resistance to latrunculin A

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FYPO:0002080 - sensitive to TPCK

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FYPO:0000678 - unequal homologous chromosome segregation

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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
PF03568Separin_CPFAM
PS51700SEPARINSEPARIN_core_domPROSITE_PROFILES
PTHR12792EXTRA SPINDLE POLES 1-RELATEDPeptidase_C50PANTHER

Orthologs

References / Literature

PMID:30072439 - The putative ceramide-conjugation protein Cwh43 regulates G0 quiescence, nutrient metabolism and lipid homeostasis in fission yeast.
Nakazawa N et al. J Cell Sci 2018 Aug 21;131(16)
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:8978688 - Fission yeast Cut1 and Cut2 are essential for sister chromatid separation, concentrate along the metaphase spindle and form large complexes.
Funabiki H et al. EMBO J 1996 Dec 02;15(23):6617-28
PMID:14972679 - Two fission yeast homologs of Drosophila Mei-S332 are required for chromosome segregation during meiosis I and II.
Rabitsch KP et al. Curr Biol 2004 Feb 17;14(4):287-301
PMID:15507118 - An interactive gene network for securin-separase, condensin, cohesin, Dis1/Mtc1 and histones constructed by mass transformation.
Yuasa T et al. Genes Cells 2004 Nov;9(11):1069-82
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:12390246 - Cut1/separase C-terminus affects spindle pole body positioning in interphase of fission yeast: pointed nuclear formation.
Nakamura T et al. Genes Cells 2002 Nov;7(11):1113-24
PMID:10651900 - Cell cycle mechanisms of sister chromatid separation; roles of Cut1/separin and Cut2/securin.
Yanagida M Genes Cells 2000 Jan;5(1):1-8
PMID:16483313 - Securin can have a separase cleavage site by substitution mutations in the domain required for stabilization and inhibition of separase.
Nagao K et al. Genes Cells 2006 Mar;11(3):247-60
PMID:16491466 - Construction of a protease-deficient strain set for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, useful for effective production of protease-sensitive heterologous proteins.
Idiris A et al. Yeast 2006 Jan 30;23(2):83-99
PMID:2203537 - The fission yeast cut1+ gene regulates spindle pole body duplication and has homology to the budding yeast ESP1 gene.
Uzawa S et al. Cell 1990 Sep 07;62(5):913-25
PMID:22084378 - Nutrient limitations alter cell division control and chromosome segregation through growth-related kinases and phosphatases.
Yanagida M et al. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2011 Dec 27;366(1584):3508-20
PMID:22645648 - The reverse, but coordinated, roles of Tor2 (TORC1) and Tor1 (TORC2) kinases for growth, cell cycle and separase-mediated mitosis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Ikai N et al. Open Biol 2011 Nov;1(3):110007
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: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:35320724 - Cdc48 influence on separase levels is independent of mitosis and suggests translational sensitivity of separase.
Vijayakumari D et al. Cell Rep 2022 Mar 22;38(12):110554
PMID:1934126 - Common genes and pathways in the regulation of the mitotic and meiotic cell cycles of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Grallert B et al. Curr Genet 1991 Aug;20(3):199-204
PMID:14511667 - A mutation in the gene involved in sister chromatid separation causes a defect in nuclear mRNA export in fission yeast.
Kalam Azad A et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003 Oct 10;310(1):176-81
PMID:20967237 - Fission yeast cells undergo nuclear division in the absence of spindle microtubules.
Castagnetti S et al. PLoS Biol 2010 Oct 12;8(10):e1000512
PMID:38780300 - Nitrogen availability is important for preventing catastrophic mitosis in fission yeast.
Zemlianski V et al. J Cell Sci 2024 May 23;
PMID:9168469 - Isolation and molecular characterization of mRNA transport mutants in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Azad AK et al. Mol Biol Cell 1997 May;8(5):825-41
PMID:7957061 - Fission yeast cut3 and cut14, members of a ubiquitous protein family, are required for chromosome condensation and segregation in mitosis.
Saka Y et al. EMBO J 1994 Oct 17;13(20):4938-52
PMID:9649518 - A screen for genes involved in the anaphase proteolytic pathway identifies tsm1(+), a novel Schizosaccharomyces pombe gene important for microtubule integrity.
Grishchuk EL et al. Genetics 1998 Jul;149(3):1251-64
PMID:15329725 - Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair.
Nagao K et al. Nature 2004 Aug 26;430(7003):1044-8
PMID:16861909 - Fission yeast MAP kinase is required for the increased securin-separase interaction that rescues separase mutants under stresses.
Kawasaki Y et al. Cell Cycle 2006 Aug;5(16):1831-9
PMID:10582241 - Control of metaphase-anaphase progression by proteolysis: cyclosome function regulated by the protein kinase A pathway, ubiquitination and localization.
Yanagida M et al. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1999 Sep 29;354(1389):1559-69; discussion 1569-70
PMID:17032733 - S. pombe FEAR protein orthologs are not required for release of Clp1/Flp1 phosphatase from the nucleolus during mitosis.
Chen CT et al. J Cell Sci 2006 Nov 01;119(Pt 21):4462-6
PMID:8388878 - Cell cycle-dependent specific positioning and clustering of centromeres and telomeres in fission yeast.
Funabiki H et al. J Cell Biol 1993 Jun;121(5):961-76
GO_REF:0000033 - Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
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:8395535 - Identification of seven new cut genes involved in Schizosaccharomyces pombe mitosis.
Samejima I et al. J Cell Sci 1993 May;105 ( Pt 1):135-43
PMID:14532136 - Rec8 cleavage by separase is required for meiotic nuclear divisions in fission yeast.
Kitajima TS et al. EMBO J 2003 Oct 15;22(20):5643-53
PMID:17178839 - Fission yeast Cut8 is required for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, ribosomal DNA maintenance, and cell survival in the absence of Rqh1 helicase.
Kearsey SE et al. Mol Cell Biol 2007 Mar;27(5):1558-67
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:9802907 - Dynamics of centromeres during metaphase-anaphase transition in fission yeast: Dis1 is implicated in force balance in metaphase bipolar spindle.
Nabeshima K et al. Mol Biol Cell 1998 Nov;9(11):3211-25
PMID:9153313 - Isolation and characterization of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe rhp9 gene: a gene required for the DNA damage checkpoint but not the replication checkpoint.
Willson J et al. Nucleic Acids Res 1997 Jun 01;25(11):2138-46
PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N et al. Science 2011 May 20;332(6032):930-6
PMID:16904908 - Cdc48 is required for the stability of Cut1/separase in mitotic anaphase.
Ikai N et al. J Struct Biol 2006 Oct;156(1):50-61
PMID:9635190 - Cut1 is loaded onto the spindle by binding to Cut2 and promotes anaphase spindle movement upon Cut2 proteolysis.
Kumada K et al. Curr Biol 1998 May 21;8(11):633-41
PMID:26527280 - Robust Ordering of Anaphase Events by Adaptive Thresholds and Competing Degradation Pathways.
Kamenz J et al. Mol Cell 2015 Nov 05;60(3):446-59
PMID:15161942 - The nucleolus is involved in mRNA export from the nucleus in fission yeast.
Ideue T et al. J Cell Sci 2004 Jun 15;117(Pt 14):2887-95
PMID:29735656 - Suppressor mutation analysis combined with 3D modeling explains cohesin's capacity to hold and release DNA.
Xu X et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 May 22;115(21):E4833-E4842
PMID:8065367 - Identification of cut8+ and cek1+, a novel protein kinase gene, which complement a fission yeast mutation that blocks anaphase.
Samejima I et al. Mol Cell Biol 1994 Sep;14(9):6361-71
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:12653962 - A brute force postgenome approach to identify temperature-sensitive mutations that negatively interact with separase and securin plasmids.
Matsumura T et al. Genes Cells 2003 Apr;8(4):341-55
PMID:19528228 - Smc5-Smc6-dependent removal of cohesin from mitotic chromosomes.
Outwin EA et al. Mol Cell Biol 2009 Aug;29(16):4363-75
PMID:20118936 - Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome-wide nucleosome mapping reveals positioning mechanisms distinct from those of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Lantermann AB et al. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2010 Feb;17(2):251-7
PMID:2229195 - Continued DNA synthesis after a mitotic block in the double mutant cut1 cdc11 of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Creanor J et al. J Cell Sci 1990 Jul;96 ( Pt 3):435-8
PMID:24687850 - H2A.Z-dependent regulation of cohesin dynamics on chromosome arms.
Tapia-Alveal C et al. Mol Cell Biol 2014 Jun;34(11):2092-104
PMID:24583014 - Slow checkpoint activation kinetics as a safety device in anaphase.
Kamenz J et al. Curr Biol 2014 Mar 17;24(6):646-51
PMID:16453724 - Isolation and characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe cutmutants that block nuclear division but not cytokinesis.
Hirano T et al. EMBO J 1986 Nov;5(11):2973-9