FEATURES

FAMILY

DESCRIPTION

Also known as SCC1_YEAST, MCD1, PDS3, RHC21, SCC1. Cleavable component of the cohesin complex involved in chromosome cohesion during cell cycle. The cohesin complex is required for the cohesion of sister chromatids after DNA replication. The cohesin complex apparently forms a large proteinaceous ring within which sister chromatids can be trapped. At metaphase-anaphase transition, this protein is cleaved by ESP1 and dissociates from chromatin, allowing sister chromatids to segregate. Interacts directly with IRR1/SCC3 in cohesin complex. Cohesin complexes are composed of the SMC1 and SMC3 heterodimer attached via their hinge domain, MCD1/SCC1 which link them, and IRR1, which interacts with MCD1. The cohesin complex also interacts with SCC2, which is required for its association with chromosomes.

EXTERNAL LINKS

MCD1

Mutations

Mutation(s) distribution

Mutations table