%0 Generic %A Cabello-Lobato, María J. %A González-Garrido, Cristina %A Cano-Linares, María I. %A Wong, Ronald P. %A Yáñez-Vílchez, Aurora %A Morillo-Huesca, Macarena %A Roldán-Romero, Juan M. %A Vicioso, Marta %A González-Prieto, Román %A Ulrich, Helle D. %A Prado, Félix %T Physical interactions between MCM and Rad51 facilitate replication fork lesion bypass and ssDNA gap filling by non-recombinogenic functions %D 2021 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/3669 %X The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) helicase physically interacts with the recombination proteins Rad51 and Rad52 from yeast to human cells. We show, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that these interactions occur within a nuclease-insoluble scaffold enriched in replication/repair factors. Rad51 accumulates in a MCM- and DNA-binding-independent manner and interacts with MCM helicases located outside of the replication origins and forks. MCM, Rad51, and Rad52 accumulate in this scaffold in G1 and are released during the S phase. In the presence of replication-blocking lesions, Cdc7 prevents their release from the scaffold, thus maintaining the interactions. We identify a rad51 mutant that is impaired in its ability to bind to MCM but not to the scaffold. This mutant is proficient in recombination but partially defective in single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) gap filling and replication fork progression through damaged DNA. Therefore, cells accumulate MCM/Rad51/Rad52 complexes at specific nuclear scaffolds in G1 to assist stressed forks through non-recombinogenic functions. %K Cdc7 %K DNA damage %K MCM %K Rad51 %K Rad52 %K Homologous recombination %K Replication %K Componente 7 del complejo de mantenimiento de minicromosoma %K Daño del ADN %K Recombinasa Rad51 %K Proteína recombinante y reparadora de ADN Rad52 %K Recombinación homóloga %K Replicación %~