Checkpoint kinase interaction with DNA polymerase alpha regulates replication progression during stress

Background: In eukaryotes, replication stress activates a checkpoint response, which facilitates genome duplication by stabilising the replisome. How the checkpoint kinases regulate the replisome remains poorly understood. The aim of this study is to identify new targets of checkpoint kinases within the replisome during replication stress. Methods: Here we use an unbiased biotin proximity-ligation approach in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify new interactors and substrates of the checkpoint kinase Rad53 in vivo. Results: From this screen, we identified the replication initiation factor Sld7 as a Rad53 substrate, and Pol1, the catalytic subunit of polymerase a, as a Rad53-interactor. We showed that CDK phosphorylation of Pol1 mediates its interaction with Rad53. Combined with other interactions between Rad53 and the replisome, this Rad53-Pol1 interaction is important for viability and replisome progression during replication stress. Conclusions: Together, we explain how the interactions of Rad53 with the replisome are controlled by both replication stress and the cell cycle, and why these interactions might be important for coordinating the stabilisation of both the leading and lagging strand machineries.

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