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In budding yeast the cullin Rtt101 promotes replication fork progression through natural pause sites and areas of DNA damage, but its relevant subunits and molecular mechanism remain poorly understood. Here, we show that in budding yeast Mms1 and Mms22 are functional subunits of an Rtt101‐based ubiquitin ligase that associates with the conjugating‐enzyme Cdc34. Replication forks in mms1Δ, mms22Δ and rtt101Δ cells are sensitive to collisions with drug‐induced DNA lesions, but not to transient pausing induced by nucleotide depletion. Interaction studies and sequence analysis have shown that Mms1 resembles human DDB1, suggesting that Rtt101^Mms1 is the budding yeast counterpart of the mammalian CUL4^DDB1 ubiquitin ligase family. Rtt101 interacts in an Mms1‐dependent manner with the putative substrate‐specific adaptors Mms22 and Crt10, the latter being a regulator of expression of …