A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase

Nisar P. Malek, Holly Sundberg, Seth McGrew, Keiko Nakayama, Themis R. Kyriakidis and James M. Roberts ()
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Nisar P. Malek: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Holly Sundberg: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seth McGrew: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Keiko Nakayama: Laboratory of Embryonic and Genetic Engineering, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University
Themis R. Kyriakidis: University of Washington
James M. Roberts: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Nature, 2001, vol. 413, issue 6853, 323-327

Abstract: Abstract The protein p27Kip1 is an inhibitor of cell division1. An increase in p27 causes proliferating cells to exit from the cell cycle, and a decrease in p27 is necessary for quiescent cells to resume division2,3. Abnormally low amounts of p27 are associated with pathological states of excessive cell proliferation, especially cancers4,5,6,7,8. In normal and tumour cells, p27 is regulated primarily at the level of translation9,10,11 and protein turnover. Phosphorylation of p27 on threonine 187 (T187) by cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (Cdk2) is thought to initiate the major pathway for p27 proteolysis12,13,14,15. To critically test the importance of this pathway in vivo, we replaced the murine p27 gene with one that encoded alanine instead of threonine at position 187 (p27T187A). Here we show that cells expressing p27T187A were unable to downregulate p27 during the S and G2 phases of the cell cycle, but that this had a surprisingly modest effect on cell proliferation both in vitro and in vivo. Our efforts to explain this unexpected result led to the discovery of a second proteolytic pathway for controlling p27, one that is activated by mitogens and degrades p27 exclusively during G1.

Date: 2001
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