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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 33, 30264-30270, August 16, 2002

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Physical Interaction between Recombinational Proteins Rhp51 and Rad22 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe^*

Woo Jae Kim^§, Eon Joo Park^§, Hyojin Lee^¶, Rho Hyun Seong, and Sang Dai Park^**

From the  School of Biological Sciences and  Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea

In eukaryotes, Rad51 and Rad52 are two key components of homologous recombination and recombinational repair. These two proteins interact with each other. Here we investigated the role of interaction between Rhp51 and Rad22, the fission yeast homologs of Rad51 and Rad52, respectively, on the function of each protein. We identified a direct association between the two proteins and their self-interactions both in vivo and in vitro. We also determined the binding domains of each protein that mediate these interactions. To characterize the role of Rhp51-Rad22 interaction, we used random mutagenesis to identify the mutants Rhp51 and Rad22, which cannot interact each other. Interestingly, we found that mutant Rhp51 protein, which cannot interact with either Rad22 or Rti1 (G282D), lost its DNA repair ability. In contrast, mutant Rad22 proteins, which cannot specifically bind to Rhp51 (S379L and P381L), maintained their DNA repair ability. These results suggest that the interaction between Rhp51 and Rad22 is crucial for the recombinational repair function of Rhp51. However, the significance of this interaction on the function of Rad22 remains to be characterized further.

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