CHTF18

This gene encodes a protein which is a component of a replication factor C (RFC) complex, which loads proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) on to DNA during the S phase of cell cycle. The encoded protein may interact with other proteins, including RFC complex 3, to form a clamp loader complex that plays a role in sister chromatid cohesion during metaphase-anaphase transition. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2016]

Full Name

CTF18, chromosome transmission fidelity factor 18 homolog (S. cerevisiae)

Function

Chromosome cohesion factor involved in sister chromatid cohesion and fidelity of chromosome transmission. Component of one of the cell nuclear antigen loader complexes, CTF18-replication factor C (CTF18-RFC), which consists of CTF18, CTF8, DCC1, RFC2, RFC3, RFC4 and RFC5. The CTF18-RFC complex binds to single-stranded and primed DNAs and has weak ATPase activity that is stimulated by the presence of primed DNA, replication protein A (RPA) and by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). The CTF18-RFC complex catalyzes the ATP-dependent loading of PCNA onto primed and gapped DNA. Interacts with and stimulates DNA polymerase POLH. During DNA repair synthesis, involved in loading DNA polymerase POLE at the sites of local damage (PubMed:20227374).

Biological Process

DNA duplex unwinding Source: GOC
Positive regulation of DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity Source: UniProtKB
Telomere maintenance via semi-conservative replication Source: Reactome

Cellular Location

Nucleus. Associates with chromatin during S phase.