Abstract
Expression of the Cdc6 protein (Cdc6p) is essential for formation of prereplicative complexes at budding yeast replication origins. Analysis of mutations in the conserved nucleoside triphosphate (NTP)-binding site of Cdc6p described here suggests that NTPs are required both for the productive interaction of Cdc6p with replication origins during G1 and the quantitative loading of the Mcm2-7 family of proteins onto chromatin. We show that Cdc6p exhibits significant sequence similarity to subunits of eukaryotic and prokaryotic clamp-loaders, which load ring-shaped DNA polymerase processivity factors onto DNA in an analogous reaction. Similarities in both sequence and mechanism suggest that Cdc6p and the clamp-loaders are members of a superfamily of nucleotide-dependent loading factors.
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