scholarly journals An extensive program of periodic alternative splicing linked to cell cycle progression

eLife ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dominguez ◽  
Yi-Hsuan Tsai ◽  
Robert Weatheritt ◽  
Yang Wang ◽  
Benjamin J Blencowe ◽  
...  

Progression through the mitotic cell cycle requires periodic regulation of gene function at the levels of transcription, translation, protein-protein interactions, post-translational modification and degradation. However, the role of alternative splicing (AS) in the temporal control of cell cycle is not well understood. By sequencing the human transcriptome through two continuous cell cycles, we identify ~1300 genes with cell cycle-dependent AS changes. These genes are significantly enriched in functions linked to cell cycle control, yet they do not significantly overlap genes subject to periodic changes in steady-state transcript levels. Many of the periodically spliced genes are controlled by the SR protein kinase CLK1, whose level undergoes cell cycle-dependent fluctuations via an auto-inhibitory circuit. Disruption of CLK1 causes pleiotropic cell cycle defects and loss of proliferation, whereas CLK1 over-expression is associated with various cancers. These results thus reveal a large program of CLK1-regulated periodic AS intimately associated with cell cycle control.

Genetics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiichi Urushiyama ◽  
Tokio Tani ◽  
Yasumi Ohshima

Abstract The prp (pre-mRNA processing) mutants of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe have a defect in pre-mRNA splicing and accumulate mRNA precursors at a restrictive temperature. One of the prp mutants, prp1-4, also has a defect in poly(A)+ RNA transport. The prp1  + gene encodes a protein of 906 amino acid residues that contains 19 repeats of 34 amino acids termed tetratrico peptide repeat (TPR) motifs, which were proposed to mediate protein-protein interactions. The amino acid sequence of Prplp shares 29.6% identity and 50.6% similarity with that of the PRP6 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is a component of the U4/U6 snRNP required for spliceosome assembly. No functional complementation was observed between S. pombe prp1  + and S. cerevisiae PRP6. We examined synthetic lethality of prp1-4 with the other known prp mutations in S. pombe. The results suggest that Prp1p interacts either physically or functionally with Prp4p, Prp6p and Prp13p. Interestingly, the prp1  + gene was found to be identical with the zer1  + gene that functions in cell cycle control. These results suggest that Prp1p/Zer1p is either directly or indirectly involved in cell cycle progression and/or poly(A)+ RNA nuclear export, in addition to pre-mRNA splicing.


2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette Dissous ◽  
Christoph G Grevelding ◽  
Thavy Long

Polo-like kinases are important regulators of cell cycle progression and mitosis. They constitute a family of conserved serine/threonine kinases which are highly related in their catalytic domains and contain polo boxes involved in protein-protein interactions and subcellular localization. In mammals, five Plks (Plk 1-5) encompass diverse roles in centrosome dynamics, spindle formation, intra S-phase and G2/M checkpoints and DNA damage response. Plk1 is a key positive regulator of mitosis and is overexpressed in various types of cancers. Plk4 is a divergent member of the Plk family, with essential functions in centriole duplication. Homozygous disruption of Plk1 or Plk4 in mice is lethal in embryos. Two Plk members SmPlk1 and SmSak, homologous to Plk1 and Plk4 respectively, are present in the parasitic platyhelminth Schistosoma mansoni. Structural and functional analyses of SmPlk1 have demonstrated its conserved function in the regulation of cell cycle G2/M transition in Xenopus oocytes. The anti-cancer drug BI 2536 (the most potent and selective Plk1 inhibitor) inhibits specifically the catalytic activity of SmPlk1 and induced profound alterations in schistosome gonads, indicating a role of SmPlk1 in parasite gametogenesis and its potential as a novel chemotherapeutic target against schistosomiasis. Functions of SmSak in cell cycle regulation and schistosome gonad development are currently investigated


2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (18) ◽  
pp. 4891-4905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santhi Pondugula ◽  
Daniel W. Neef ◽  
Warren P. Voth ◽  
Russell P. Darst ◽  
Archana Dhasarathy ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Cells devote considerable resources to nutrient homeostasis, involving nutrient surveillance, acquisition, and storage at physiologically relevant concentrations. Many Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcripts coding for proteins with nutrient uptake functions exhibit peak periodic accumulation during M phase, indicating that an important aspect of nutrient homeostasis involves transcriptional regulation. Inorganic phosphate is a central macronutrient that we have previously shown oscillates inversely with mitotic activation of PHO5. The mechanism of this periodic cell cycle expression remains unknown. To date, only two sequence-specific activators, Pho4 and Pho2, were known to induce PHO5 transcription. We provide here evidence that Mcm1, a MADS-box protein, is essential for PHO5 mitotic activation. In addition, we found that cells simultaneously lacking the forkhead proteins, Fkh1 and Fkh2, exhibited a 2.5-fold decrease in PHO5 expression. The Mcm1-Fkh2 complex, first shown to transactivate genes within the CLB2 cluster that drive G2/M progression, also associated directly at the PHO5 promoter in a cell cycle-dependent manner in chromatin immunoprecipitation assays. Sds3, a component specific to the Rpd3L histone deacetylase complex, was also recruited to PHO5 in G1. These findings provide (i) further mechanistic insight into PHO5 mitotic activation, (ii) demonstrate that Mcm1-Fkh2 can function combinatorially with other activators to yield late M/G1 induction, and (iii) couple the mitotic cell cycle progression machinery to cellular phosphate homeostasis.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. T79-T86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay K Gonugunta ◽  
Lu Miao ◽  
Gangadhara R Sareddy ◽  
Preethi Ravindranathan ◽  
Ratna Vadlamudi ◽  
...  

Proline, glutamic acid- and leucine-rich protein 1 (PELP1) is a multi-domain scaffold protein that serves as a platform for various protein–protein interactions between steroid receptors (SRs) and signaling factors and cell cycle, transcriptional, cytoskeletal, and epigenetic remodelers. PELP1 is known to be a coregulator of transcription and participates in the nuclear and extranuclear functions of SRs, ribosome biogenesis, and cell cycle progression. The expression and localization of PELP1 are dysregulated in hormonal cancers including breast and prostate cancers. This review focuses on the interactive functions and therapeutic and prognostic significance of PELP1 in breast and prostate cancers.


2010 ◽  
Vol 428 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Luc Tanguay ◽  
Geneviève Rodier ◽  
Sylvain Meloche

ERK3 (extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 3) is an atypical MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) that is suggested to play a role in cell-cycle progression and cellular differentiation. However, it is not known whether the function of ERK3 is regulated during the cell cycle. In the present paper, we report that ERK3 is stoichiometrically hyperphosphorylated during entry into mitosis and is dephosphorylated at the M→G1 transition. The phosphorylation of ERK3 is associated with the accumulation of the protein in mitosis. In vitro phosphorylation of a series of ERK3-deletion mutants by mitotic cell extracts revealed that phosphorylation is confined to the unique C-terminal extension of the protein. Using MS analysis, we identified four novel phosphorylation sites, Ser684, Ser688, Thr698 and Ser705, located at the extreme C-terminus of ERK3. All four sites are followed by a proline residue. We have shown that purified cyclin B-Cdk1 (cyclindependent kinase 1) phosphorylates these sites in vitro and demonstrate that Cdk1 acts as a major Thr698 kinase in vivo. Reciprocally, we found that the phosphatases Cdc14A and Cdc14B (Cdc is cell-division cycle) bind to ERK3 and reverse its C-terminal phosphorylation in mitosis. Importantly, alanine substitution of the four C-terminal phosphorylation sites markedly decreased the half-life of ERK3 in mitosis, thereby linking phosphorylation to the stabilization of the kinase. The results of the present study identify a novel regulatory mechanism of ERK3 that operates in a cell-cycle-dependent manner.


2000 ◽  
Vol 182 (17) ◽  
pp. 4868-4874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisuke Aoyama ◽  
Yasunori Mitsubayashi ◽  
Hirofumi Aiba ◽  
Takeshi Mizuno

ABSTRACT Common histidine-to-aspartate (His-to-Asp) phosphorelay signaling systems involve three types of signaling components: a sensor His kinase, a response regulator, and a histidine-containing phosphotransfer (HPt) protein. In the fission yeastSchizosaccharomyces pombe, two response regulators, Mcs4 and Prr1, have been identified recently, and it was shown that they are involved in the signal transduction implicated in stress responses. Furthermore, Mcs4 appears to be involved in mitotic cell-cycle control. However, neither the HPt phosphotransmitter nor His kinase has been characterized in S. pombe. In this study, we identified a gene encoding an HPt phosphotransmitter, named Spy1 (S. pombe YPD1-like protein). The spy1+ gene showed an ability to complement a mutational lesion of theSaccharomyces cerevisiae YPD1 gene, which is involved in an osmosensing signal transduction. The result from yeast two-hybrid analysis indicated that Spy1 interacts with Mcs4. To gain insight into the function of Spy1, a series of genetic analyses were conducted. The results provided evidence that Spy1, together with Mcs4, plays a role in regulation of the G2/M cell cycle progression. Spy1-deficient cells appear to be precocious in the entry to M phase. In the proposed model, Spy1 modulates Mcs4 in a negative manner, presumably through a direct His-to-Asp phosphorelay, operating upstream of the Sty1 mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade.


Development ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Oh ◽  
S.Y. Hwang ◽  
D. Solter ◽  
B.B. Knowles

Timely translation of maternal transcripts and post-translational modification of their gene products control the initial development of preimplantation-stage embryos. We have isolated and characterized a gene encoding a stage-specific embryonic protein. This novel gene, spindlin (Spin), is an abundant maternal transcript present in the unfertilized egg and 2-cell, but not 8-cell, stage embryo. Spin exhibits high homology to a multicopy gene, Y-linked spermiogenesis-specific transcript (Ssty), and together they form a new gene family expressed during gametogenesis. We find that spindlin associates with the meiotic spindle and is modified by phosphorylation in a cell-cycle-dependent fashion. Furthermore, it comigrates with the previously described 30x10(3) Mr metaphase complex which is posttranslationally modified during the first mitotic cell cycle. Our data suggest that spindlin plays a role in cell-cycle regulation during the transition from gamete to embryo.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Song Yang ◽  
Kasey Jividen ◽  
Teddy Kamata ◽  
Natalia Dworak ◽  
Luke Oostdyk ◽  
...  

AbstractAndrogen signaling through the androgen receptor (AR) directs gene expression in both normal and prostate cancer cells. Androgen regulates multiple aspects of the AR life cycle, including its localization and post-translational modification, but understanding how modifications are read and integrated with AR activity has been difficult. Here, we show that ADP-ribosylation regulates AR through a nuclear pathway mediated by Parp7. We show that Parp7 mono-ADP-ribosylates agonist-bound AR, and that ADP-ribosyl-cysteines within the N-terminal domain mediate recruitment of the E3 ligase Dtx3L/Parp9. Molecular recognition of ADP-ribosyl-cysteine is provided by tandem macrodomains in Parp9, and Dtx3L/Parp9 modulates expression of a subset of AR-regulated genes. Parp7, ADP-ribosylation of AR, and AR-Dtx3L/Parp9 complex assembly are inhibited by Olaparib, a compound used clinically to inhibit poly-ADP-ribosyltransferases Parp1/2. Our study reveals the components of an androgen signaling axis that uses a writer and reader of ADP-ribosylation to regulate protein-protein interactions and AR activity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Silva McPherson ◽  
Dmitry Korzhnev

Cellular DNA damage response (DDR) is an extensive signaling network that orchestrates DNA damage recognition, repair and avoidance, cell cycle progression and cell death. DDR alternation is a hallmark of...


Proteomes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Shomeek Chowdhury ◽  
Stephen Hepper ◽  
Mudassir K. Lodi ◽  
Milton H. Saier ◽  
Peter Uetz

Glycolysis is regulated by numerous mechanisms including allosteric regulation, post-translational modification or protein-protein interactions (PPI). While glycolytic enzymes have been found to interact with hundreds of proteins, the impact of only some of these PPIs on glycolysis is well understood. Here we investigate which of these interactions may affect glycolysis in E. coli and possibly across numerous other bacteria, based on the stoichiometry of interacting protein pairs (from proteomic studies) and their conservation across bacteria. We present a list of 339 protein-protein interactions involving glycolytic enzymes but predict that ~70% of glycolytic interactors are not present in adequate amounts to have a significant impact on glycolysis. Finally, we identify a conserved but uncharacterized subset of interactions that are likely to affect glycolysis and deserve further study.


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