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Review
. 2022 Jan;44(1):e2100218.
doi: 10.1002/bies.202100218. Epub 2021 Nov 28.

Minichromosome maintenance proteins in eukaryotic chromosome segregation

Gunjan Mehta  1 , Kaustuv Sanyal  2 , Suman Abhishek  1 , Eerappa Rajakumara  1 , Santanu K Ghosh  3
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Review

Minichromosome maintenance proteins in eukaryotic chromosome segregation

Gunjan Mehta et al. Bioessays. 2022 Jan.

Abstract

Minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) proteins are well-known for their functions in DNA replication. However, their roles in chromosome segregation are yet to be reviewed in detail. Following the discovery in 1984, a group of Mcm proteins, known as the ARS-nonspecific group consisting of Mcm13, Mcm16-19, and Mcm21-22, were characterized as bonafide kinetochore proteins and were shown to play significant roles in the kinetochore assembly and high-fidelity chromosome segregation. This review focuses on the structure, function, and evolution of this group of Mcm proteins. Our in silico analysis of the physical interactors of these proteins reveals that they share non-overlapping functions despite being copurified in biochemically stable complexes. We have discussed the contrasting results reported in the literature and experimental strategies to address them. Taken together, this review focuses on the structure-function of the ARS-nonspecific Mcm proteins and their evolutionary flexibility to maintain genome stability in various organisms.

Keywords: MCM; Minichromosome maintenance; budding yeast; centromere; chromosome segregation; kinetochore.

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