Cell Division Cycle Protein 26 (CDC26)

CDC26 is highly similar to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cdc26, a component of cell cycle anaphase-promoting complex (APC). APC is composed of a group of highly conserved proteins and functions as a cell cycle-regulated ubiquitin-protein ligase. APC thus is responsible for the cell cycle regulated proteolysis of various proteins.SCD26, a dosage-dependent suppressor of cdc26. However, the cloned gene is in fact the CDC26 gene, because a nucleotide substitution in cdc26-1 was found to be a nonsense mutation in this sequence. Disruption of this gene conferred thermosensitive cell growth and the disrupted cdc26 gene could not complement the cdc26-1 mutant allele. Thus, the CDC26 gene is required for cell growth only at high temperature.