scholarly journals Acm1 Is a Negative Regulator of the Cdh1-Dependent Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome in Budding Yeast

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (24) ◽  
pp. 9162-9176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan S. Martinez ◽  
Dah-Eun Jeong ◽  
Eunyoung Choi ◽  
Brian M. Billings ◽  
Mark C. Hall

ABSTRACT Cdh1 is a coactivator of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) and contributes to mitotic exit and G1 maintenance by facilitating the polyubiquitination and subsequent proteolysis of specific substrates. Here, we report that budding yeast Cdh1 is a component of a cell cycle-regulated complex that includes the 14-3-3 homologs Bmh1 and Bmh2 and a previously uncharacterized protein, which we name Acm1 (APC/C Cdh1 modulator 1). Association of Cdh1 with Bmh1 and Bmh2 requires Acm1, and the Acm1 protein is cell cycle regulated, appearing late in G1 and disappearing in late M. In acm1Δ strains, Cdh1 localization to the bud neck and association with two substrates, Clb2 and Hsl1, were strongly enhanced. Several lines of evidence suggest that Acm1 can suppress APC/CCdh1-mediated proteolysis of mitotic cyclins. First, overexpression of Acm1 fully restored viability to cells expressing toxic levels of Cdh1 or a constitutively active Cdh1 mutant lacking inhibitory phosphorylation sites. Second, overexpression of Acm1 was toxic in sic1Δ cells. Third, ACM1 deletion exacerbated a low-penetrance elongated-bud phenotype caused by modest overexpression of Cdh1. This bud elongation was independent of the morphogenesis checkpoint, and the combination of acm1Δ and hsl1Δ resulted in a dramatic enhancement of bud elongation and G2/M delay. Effects on bud elongation were attenuated when Cdh1 was replaced with a mutant lacking the C-terminal IR dipeptide, suggesting that APC/C-dependent proteolysis is required for this phenotype. We propose that Acm1 and Bmh1/Bmh2 constitute a specialized inhibitor of APC/CCdh1.

2000 ◽  
Vol 149 (7) ◽  
pp. 1361-1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam D. Rudner ◽  
Kevin G. Hardwick ◽  
Andrew W. Murray

The activity of the cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (Cdk1), Cdc28, inhibits the transition from anaphase to G1 in budding yeast. CDC28-T18V, Y19F (CDC28-VF), a mutant that lacks inhibitory phosphorylation sites, delays the exit from mitosis and is hypersensitive to perturbations that arrest cells in mitosis. Surprisingly, this behavior is not due to a lack of inhibitory phosphorylation or increased kinase activity, but reflects reduced activity of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC), a defect shared with other mutants that lower Cdc28/Clb activity in mitosis. CDC28-VF has reduced Cdc20- dependent APC activity in mitosis, but normal Hct1- dependent APC activity in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. The defect in Cdc20-dependent APC activity in CDC28-VF correlates with reduced association of Cdc20 with the APC. The defects of CDC28-VF suggest that Cdc28 activity is required to induce the metaphase to anaphase transition and initiate the transition from anaphase to G1 in budding yeast.


2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie A Delmar ◽  
Rene C Chan ◽  
Douglass J Forbes

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviva E. Diamond ◽  
Jae-Sook Park ◽  
Ichiro Inoue ◽  
Hiroyuki Tachikawa ◽  
Aaron M. Neiman

Ascospore formation in yeast is accomplished through a cell division in which daughter nuclei are engulfed by newly formed plasma membranes, termed prospore membranes. Closure of the prospore membrane must be coordinated with the end of meiosis II to ensure proper cell division. AMA1 encodes a meiosis-specific activator of the anaphase promoting complex (APC). The activity of APCAma1is inhibited before meiosis II, but the substrates specifically targeted for degradation by Ama1 at the end of meiosis are unknown. We show here that ama1Δ mutants are defective in prospore membrane closure. Ssp1, a protein found at the leading edge of the prospore membrane, is stabilized in ama1Δ mutants. Inactivation of a conditional form of Ssp1 can partially rescue the sporulation defect of the ama1Δ mutant, indicating that an essential function of Ama1 is to lead to the removal of Ssp1. Depletion of Cdc15 causes a defect in meiotic exit. We find that prospore membrane closure is also defective in Cdc15 and that this defect can be overcome by expression of a form of Ama1 in which multiple consensus cyclin-dependent kinase phosphorylation sites have been mutated. These results demonstrate that APCAma1functions to coordinate the exit from meiosis II with cytokinesis.


2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 514-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Yuan Ke ◽  
Zee-Fen Chang

ABSTRACT The expression of human thymidine kinase 1 (hTK1) is highly dependent on the growth states and cell cycle stages in mammalian cells. The amount of hTK1 is significantly increased in the cells during progression to the S and M phases, and becomes barely detectable in the early G1 phase by a proteolytic control during mitotic exit. This tight regulation is important for providing the correct pool of dTTP for DNA synthesis at the right time in the cell cycle. Here, we investigated the mechanism responsible for mitotic degradation of hTK1. We show that hTK1 is degraded via a ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in mammalian cells and that anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) activator Cdh1 is not only a necessary but also a rate-limiting factor for mitotic degradation of hTK1. Furthermore, a KEN box sequence located in the C-terminal region of hTK1 is required for its mitotic degradation and interaction capability with Cdh1. By in vitro ubiquitinylation assays, we demonstrated that hTK1 is targeted for degradation by the APC/C-Cdh1 ubiquitin ligase dependent on this KEN box motif. Taken together, we concluded that activation of the APC/C-Cdh1 complex during mitotic exit controls timing of hTK1 destruction, thus effectively minimizing dTTP formation from the salvage pathway in the early G1 phase of the cell cycle in mammalian cells.


2013 ◽  
Vol 202 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Atkins ◽  
Satoshi Yoshida ◽  
Koji Saito ◽  
Chi-Fang Wu ◽  
Daniel J. Lew ◽  
...  

The role of Cdc42 and its regulation during cytokinesis is not well understood. Using biochemical and imaging approaches in budding yeast, we demonstrate that Cdc42 activation peaks during the G1/S transition and during anaphase but drops during mitotic exit and cytokinesis. Cdc5/Polo kinase is an important upstream cell cycle regulator that suppresses Cdc42 activity. Failure to down-regulate Cdc42 during mitotic exit impairs the normal localization of key cytokinesis regulators—Iqg1 and Inn1—at the division site, and results in an abnormal septum. The effects of Cdc42 hyperactivation are largely mediated by the Cdc42 effector p21-activated kinase Ste20. Inhibition of Cdc42 and related Rho guanosine triphosphatases may be a general feature of cytokinesis in eukaryotes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (5) ◽  
pp. 998-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinadh Choppara ◽  
Sunil K. Malonia ◽  
Ganga Sankaran ◽  
Michael R. Green ◽  
Manas Kumar Santra

The F-box protein FBXO31 is a tumor suppressor that is encoded in 16q24.3, for which there is loss of heterozygosity in various solid tumors. FBXO31 serves as the substrate-recognition component of the SKP/Cullin/F-box protein class of E3 ubiquitin ligases and has been shown to direct degradation of pivotal cell-cycle regulatory proteins including cyclin D1 and the p53 antagonist MDM2. FBXO31 levels are normally low but increase substantially following genotoxic stress through a mechanism that remains to be determined. Here we show that the low levels of FBXO31 are maintained through proteasomal degradation by anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). We find that the APC/C coactivators CDH1 and CDC20 bind to a destruction-box (D-box) motif present in FBXO31 to promote its polyubiquitination and degradation in a cell-cycle–regulated manner, which requires phosphorylation of FBXO31 on serine-33 by the prosurvival kinase AKT. Following genotoxic stress, phosphorylation of FBXO31 on serine-278 by another kinase, the DNA damage kinase ATM, results in disruption of its interaction with CDH1 and CDC20, thereby preventing FBXO31 degradation. Collectively, our results reveal how alterations in FBXO31 phosphorylation, mediated by AKT and ATM, underlie physiological regulation of FBXO31 levels in unstressed and genotoxically stressed cells.


Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Michael Vannini ◽  
Victoria R. Mingione ◽  
Ashleigh Meyer ◽  
Courtney Sniffen ◽  
Jenna Whalen ◽  
...  

Mitotic exit is a critical cell cycle transition that requires the careful coordination of nuclear positioning and cyclin B destruction in budding yeast for the maintenance of genome integrity. The mitotic exit network (MEN) is a Ras-like signal transduction pathway that promotes this process during anaphase. A crucial step in MEN activation occurs when the Dbf2-Mob1 protein kinase complex associates with the Nud1 scaffold protein at the yeast spindle pole bodies (SPBs; centrosome equivalents) and thereby becomes activated. This requires prior priming phosphorylation of Nud1 by Cdc15 at SPBs. Cdc15 activation, in turn, requires both the Tem1 GTPase and the Polo kinase Cdc5, but how Cdc15 associates with SPBs is not well understood. We have identified a hyperactive allele of NUD1, nud1-A308T, that recruits Cdc15 to SPBs in all stages of the cell cycle in a CDC5-independent manner. This allele leads to early recruitment of Dbf2-Mob1 during metaphase and requires known Cdc15 phospho-sites on Nud1. The presence of nud1-A308T leads to loss of coupling between nuclear position and mitotic exit in cells with mispositioned spindles. Our findings highlight the importance of scaffold regulation in signaling pathways to prevent improper activation.


1998 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 843-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sanchez-Diaz ◽  
I. Gonzalez ◽  
M. Arellano ◽  
S. Moreno

p25rum1 and p40SIC1 are specific inhibitors of p34(cdc2/CDC28) kinase complexes with B-type cyclins that play a central role in the regulation of the G1 phase of the cell cycle. We show here that low levels of expression of SIC1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe rescues all the phenotypes of cells lacking the rum1+ gene. In addition, high level expression of SIC1 in S. pombe induces extra rounds of DNA replication without mitosis, a phenotype very similar to the overexpression of rum1+. Transient expression of rum1+ in S. cerevisiae restores the G1 arrest phenotype of cdc4 sic1Delta double mutants. Overproduction of rum1+ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae causes a cell cycle block in G1 with a phenotype similar to inactivation of all the Clb cyclins. Finally, we have mapped the cyclin interacting domain and Cdk inhibitory domain to a region of about 80 amino acids in p25rum1 that has significant homology to the C-terminal domain of p40SIC1. All these observations suggest that fission yeast p25rum1 and budding yeast p40SIC1 define a family of Cdk inhibitors that specifically down regulate cyclin B/Cdk1 during the G1 phase of the cell cycle.


2001 ◽  
Vol 114 (12) ◽  
pp. 2345-2354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Lee ◽  
Sanne Jensen ◽  
Lisa M. Frenz ◽  
Anthony L. Johnson ◽  
Didier Fesquet ◽  
...  

In eukaryotes an abnormal spindle activates a conserved checkpoint consisting of the MAD and BUB genes that results in mitotic arrest at metaphase. Recently, we and others identified a novel Bub2-dependent branch to this checkpoint that blocks mitotic exit. This cell-cycle arrest depends upon inhibition of the G-protein Tem1 that appears to be regulated by Bfa1/Bub2, a two-component GTPase-activating protein, and the exchange factor Lte1. Here, we find that Bub2 and Bfa1 physically associate across the entire cell cycle and bind to Tem1 during mitosis and early G1. Bfa1 is multiply phosphorylated in a cell-cycle-dependent manner with the major phosphorylation occurring in mitosis. This Bfa1 phosphorylation is Bub2-dependent. Cdc5, but not Cdc15 or Dbf2, partly controls the phosphorylation of Bfa1 and also Lte1. Following spindle checkpoint activation, the cell cycle phosphorylation of Bfa1 and Lte1 is protracted and some species are accentuated. Thus, the Bub2-dependent pathway is active every cell cycle and the effect of spindle damage is simply to protract its normal function. Indeed, function of the Bub2 pathway is also prolonged during metaphase arrests imposed by means other than checkpoint activation. In metaphase cells Bub2 is crucial to restrain downstream events such as actin ring formation, emphasising the importance of the Bub2 pathway in the regulation of cytokinesis. Our data is consistent with Bub2/Bfa1 being a rate-limiting negative regulator of downstream events during metaphase.


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