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Receiving complete and undamaged genetic information is vital for the survival of daughter cells after chromosome segregation. The most critical steps in this process are accurate DNA replication during S phase and a faithful chromosome segregation during anaphase. Any errors in DNA replication or chromosome segregation have dire consequences, since cells arising after division might have either changed or incomplete genetic information. Accurate chromosome segregation during anaphase requires a protein complex called cohesin, which holds together sister chromatids. This complex unifies sister chromatids from their synthesis during S phase, until separation in anaphase. Upon entry into mitosis, the spindle apparatus is assembled, which eventually engages kinetochores of all chromosomes. Additionally, when kinetochores of sister chromatids assume amphitelic attachment to the spindle microtubules, cells are finally ready for the separation of sister chromatids. This is achieved by the enzymatic cleavage of cohesin subunits Scc1 or Rec8 by an enzyme called Separase. After cohesin cleavage, sister chromatids remain attached to the spindle apparatus and their poleward movement on the spindle is initiated. The removal of cohesion between sister chromatids is an irreversible step and therefore it must be synchronized with assembly of the spindle apparatus, since precocious separation of sister chromatids might lead into aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. In this review, we focus on recent discoveries concerning the regulation of Separase activity during the cell cycle.
In several species, including Xenopus, mouse and human, two members of cyclin A family were identified. Cyclin A2, which is ubiquitously expressed in dividing cells and plays role in DNA replication, entry into mitosis and spindle assembly, and cyclin A1, whose function is less clear and which is expressed in spermatocytes, leukemia cells and in postmitotic multiciliated cells. Deletion of the gene showed that cyclin A1 is essential for male meiosis, but nonessential for female meiosis. Our results revealed, that the cyclin A1 is not only dispensable in oocytes, we show here that its expression is in fact undesirable in these cells. Our data demonstrate that the APC/C and proteasome in oocytes are unable to target sufficiently cyclin A1 before anaphase, which leads into anaphase arrest and direct inhibition of separase. The cyclin A1-induced cell cycle arrest is oocyte-specific and the presence of cyclin A1 in early embryos has no effect on cell cycle progression or chromosome division. Cyclin A1 is therefore not only an important cell cycle regulator with biased expression in germline, being essential for male and damaging for female meiosis, its persistent expression during anaphase in oocytes shows fundamental differences between APC/C function in oocytes and in early embryos.
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- anafáze * MeSH
- cyklin A1 fyziologie MeSH
- cyklin A2 fyziologie MeSH
- fluorescenční mikroskopie MeSH
- meióza MeSH
- metafáze MeSH
- mikroinjekce MeSH
- myši MeSH
- oocyty cytologie MeSH
- proteasomový endopeptidasový komplex fyziologie MeSH
- segregace chromozomů * MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- myši MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
In mammalian somatic-cell cycles, progression through the G1-phase restriction point and initiation of DNA replication are controlled by the ability of the retinoblastoma tumour-suppressor protein (pRb) family to regulate the E2F/DP transcription factors. Continuing transcription of E2F target genes beyond the G1/S transition is required for coordinating S-phase progression with cell division, a process driven by cyclin-B-dependent kinase and anaphase-promoting complex (APC)-mediated proteolysis. How E2F-dependent events at G1/S transition are orchestrated with cyclin B and APC activity remains unknown. Here, using an in vivo assay to measure protein stability in real time during the cell cycle, we show that repression of E2F activity or inhibition of cyclin-A-dependent kinase in S phase triggers the destruction of cyclin B1 through the re-assembly of APC, the ubiquitin ligase that is essential for mitotic cyclin proteolysis, with its activatory subunit Cdh1. Phosphorylation-deficient mutant Cdh1 or immunodepletion of cyclin A resulted in assembly of active Cdh1-APC even in S-phase cells. These results implicate an E2F-dependent, cyclin A/Cdk2-mediated phosphorylation of Cdh1 in the timely accumulation of cyclin B1 and the coordination of cell-cycle progression during the post-restriction point period.
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- anafáze fyziologie MeSH
- anafázi podporující komplex MeSH
- buněčné linie MeSH
- buněčný cyklus fyziologie MeSH
- cyklin A metabolismus MeSH
- cyklin B metabolismus MeSH
- cyklin B1 MeSH
- DNA vazebné proteiny * MeSH
- fosforylace MeSH
- komplexy ubikvitinligas * MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- ligasy metabolismus MeSH
- proteiny buněčného cyklu metabolismus MeSH
- retinoblastomový protein metabolismus MeSH
- S fáze MeSH
- transkripční faktor DP1 MeSH
- transkripční faktory E2F MeSH
- transkripční faktory metabolismus MeSH
- transportní proteiny * MeSH
- ubikvitinligasy MeSH
- vazebný protein 1 retinoblastomu MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Periodic activity of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) ubiquitin ligase determines progression through multiple cell cycle transitions by targeting cell cycle regulators for destruction. At the G(1)/S transition, phosphorylation-dependent dissociation of the Cdh1-activating subunit inhibits the APC, allowing stabilization of proteins required for subsequent cell cycle progression. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) that initiate and maintain Cdh1 phosphorylation have been identified. However, the issue of which cyclin-CDK complexes are involved has been a matter of debate, and the mechanism of how cyclin-CDKs interact with APC subunits remains unresolved. Here we substantiate the evidence that mammalian cyclin A-Cdk2 prevents unscheduled APC reactivation during S phase by demonstrating its periodic interaction with Cdh1 at the level of endogenous proteins. Moreover, we identified a conserved cyclin-binding motif within the Cdh1 WD-40 domain and show that its disruption abolished the Cdh1-cyclin A-Cdk2 interaction, eliminated Cdh1-associated histone H1 kinase activity, and impaired Cdh1 phosphorylation by cyclin A-Cdk2 in vitro and in vivo. Overexpression of cyclin binding-deficient Cdh1 stabilized the APC-Cdh1 interaction and induced prolonged cell cycle arrest at the G(1)/S transition. Conversely, cyclin binding-deficient Cdh1 lost its capability to support APC-dependent proteolysis of cyclin A but not that of other APC substrates such as cyclin B and securin Pds1. Collectively, these data provide a mechanistic explanation for the mutual functional interplay between cyclin A-Cdk2 and APC-Cdh1 and the first evidence that Cdh1 may activate the APC by binding specific substrates.
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- anafáze MeSH
- anafázi podporující komplex MeSH
- buněčný cyklus MeSH
- cyklin A * metabolismus MeSH
- cyklin-dependentní kinasa 2 MeSH
- cyklin-dependentní kinasy metabolismus MeSH
- fibroblasty cytologie metabolismus MeSH
- G1 fáze MeSH
- kinasy CDC2-CDC28 * MeSH
- komplexy ubikvitinligas * MeSH
- konzervovaná sekvence * MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- kultivované buňky MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- ligasy genetika metabolismus MeSH
- molekulární sekvence - údaje MeSH
- nádorové buňky kultivované MeSH
- protein-serin-threoninkinasy * metabolismus MeSH
- S fáze MeSH
- sekvence aminokyselin MeSH
- substrátová specifita MeSH
- ubikvitinligasy MeSH
- ubikvitiny metabolismus MeSH
- vazebná místa MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
Ubiquitin-proteasome-mediated destruction of rate-limiting proteins is required for timely progression through the main cell cycle transitions. The anaphase-promoting complex (APC), periodically activated by the Cdh1 subunit, represents one of the major cellular ubiquitin ligases which, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila spp., triggers exit from mitosis and during G(1) prevents unscheduled DNA replication. In this study we investigated the importance of periodic oscillation of the APC-Cdh1 activity for the cell cycle progression in human cells. We show that conditional interference with the APC-Cdh1 dissociation at the G(1)/S transition resulted in an inability to accumulate a surprisingly broad range of critical mitotic regulators including cyclin B1, cyclin A, Plk1, Pds1, mitosin (CENP-F), Aim1, and Cdc20. Unexpectedly, although constitutively assembled APC-Cdh1 also delayed G(1)/S transition and lowered the rate of DNA synthesis during S phase, some of the activities essential for DNA replication became markedly amplified, mainly due to a progressive increase of E2F-dependent cyclin E transcription and a rapid turnover of the p27(Kip1) cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. Consequently, failure to inactivate APC-Cdh1 beyond the G(1)/S transition not only inhibited productive cell division but also supported slow but uninterrupted DNA replication, precluding S-phase exit and causing massive overreplication of the genome. Our data suggest that timely oscillation of the APC-Cdh1 ubiquitin ligase activity represents an essential step in coordinating DNA replication with cell division and that failure of mechanisms regulating association of APC with the Cdh1 activating subunit can undermine genomic stability in mammalian cells.
- MeSH
- anafázi podporující komplex MeSH
- buněčný cyklus * MeSH
- cyklin E metabolismus MeSH
- cyklin-dependentní kinasa 2 MeSH
- cyklin-dependentní kinasy metabolismus MeSH
- DNA vazebné proteiny * MeSH
- fluorescenční protilátková technika MeSH
- interfáze účinky léků MeSH
- kinasy CDC2-CDC28 * MeSH
- komplexy ubikvitinligas * MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- ligasy * metabolismus MeSH
- makromolekulární látky MeSH
- mitóza * MeSH
- nádorové buňky kultivované MeSH
- protein Cdc20 MeSH
- protein-serin-threoninkinasy metabolismus MeSH
- proteiny buněčného cyklu metabolismus MeSH
- proteiny Drosophily * MeSH
- protilátky farmakologie MeSH
- průtoková cytometrie MeSH
- replikace DNA * MeSH
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae - proteiny * MeSH
- trans-aktivátory * MeSH
- transkripční faktor DP1 MeSH
- transkripční faktory E2F MeSH
- transkripční faktory metabolismus MeSH
- transportní proteiny * MeSH
- ubikvitinligasy MeSH
- vazba proteinů MeSH
- vazebný protein 1 retinoblastomu MeSH
- western blotting MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
Mammalian oocytes are arrested at meiotic prophase I. The dual-specificity phosphatase CDC25B is essential for cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) activation that drives resumption of meiosis. CDC25B reverses the inhibitory effect of the protein kinases WEE1 and MYT1 on CDK1 activation. Cdc25b-/- female mice are infertile because oocytes cannot activate CDK1. To identify a role for CDC25B following resumption of meiosis, we restored CDK1 activation in Cdc25b-/- oocytes by inhibiting WEE1 and MYT1, or expressing EGFP-CDC25A or constitutively active EGFP-CDK1 from microinjected complementary RNAs. Forced CDK1 activation in Cdc25b-/- oocytes allowed resumption of meiosis, but oocytes mostly arrested at metaphase I (MI) with intact spindles. Similarly, approximately a third of Cdc25b+/- oocytes with a reduced amount of CDC25B arrested in MI. MI-arrested Cdc25b-/- oocytes also displayed a transient decrease in CDK1 activity similar to Cdc25b+/+ oocytes during the MI-MII transition, whereas Cdc25b+/- oocytes exhibited only a partial anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome activation and anaphase I entry. Thus, CDC25B is necessary for the resumption of meiosis and the MI-MII transition.
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- anafáze MeSH
- anafázi podporující komplex metabolismus MeSH
- fosfatasy cdc25 MeSH
- meióza * MeSH
- metafáze MeSH
- myši MeSH
- oocyty * metabolismus MeSH
- savci MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- myši MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Optimal culture conditions are essential for successful IVM of mammalian oocytes and for their further development into an embryo. In the present study we used live cell imaging microscopy to assess the effects of suboptimal culture temperature on various aspects of IVM, including duration of meiosis I, dynamics of polar body extrusion, chromosome congression, anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) activation and aneuploidy. The data showed that even a small deviation from the optimal incubation temperature causes marked changes in the duration and synchronicity of meiosis, APC/C activity and the frequency of chromosome congression and segregation errors. In vitro manipulation and maturation of germ cells is widely used in both human and animal artificial reproduction techniques. Mammalian oocytes are naturally prone to chromosomal segregation errors, which are responsible for severe mental and developmental disorders. The data presented herein demonstrate that exposure of mouse oocytes to suboptimal temperature during manipulation and maturation could further increase the frequency of chromosome segregation defects in these cells.
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- anafázi podporující komplex metabolismus MeSH
- aneuploidie * MeSH
- buněčné kultury metody MeSH
- chromozomální aberace * MeSH
- meióza fyziologie MeSH
- myši MeSH
- oocyty cytologie metabolismus MeSH
- segregace chromozomů * MeSH
- teplota * MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- myši MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) is involved in essential events of cell cycle including mitosis in which it participates in centrosomal microtubule nucleation, spindle bipolarity establishment and cytokinesis. Although PLK1 function has been studied in cycling cancer cells, only limited data are known about its role in the first mitosis of mammalian zygotes. During the 1-cell stage of mouse embryo development, the acentriolar spindle is formed and the shift from acentriolar to centrosomal spindle formation progresses gradually throughout the preimplantation stage, thus providing a unique possibility to study acentriolar spindle formation. We have shown previously that PLK1 activity is not essential for entry into first mitosis, but is required for correct spindle formation and anaphase onset in 1-cell mouse embryos. In the present study, we extend this knowledge by employing quantitative confocal live cell imaging to determine spindle formation kinetics in the absence of PLK1 activity and answer the question whether metaphase arrest at PLK1-inhibited embryos is associated with low anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) activity and consequently high securin level. We have shown that inhibition of PLK1 activity induces a delay in onset of acentriolar spindle formation during first mitosis. Although these PLK1-inhibited 1-cell embryos were finally able to form a bipolar spindle, not all chromosomes were aligned at the metaphase equator. PLK1-inhibited embryos were arrested in metaphase without any sign of APC/C activation with high securin levels. Our results document that PLK1 controls the onset of spindle assembly and spindle formation, and is essential for APC/C activation before anaphase onset in mouse zygotes.
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- anafáze MeSH
- anafázi podporující komplex metabolismus MeSH
- aparát dělícího vřeténka metabolismus MeSH
- blastocysta MeSH
- časosběrné zobrazování MeSH
- centrozom metabolismus MeSH
- kinetika MeSH
- kinetochory metabolismus MeSH
- konfokální mikroskopie MeSH
- mitóza MeSH
- myši MeSH
- protein-serin-threoninkinasy antagonisté a inhibitory metabolismus MeSH
- proteiny buněčného cyklu antagonisté a inhibitory metabolismus MeSH
- protoonkogenní proteiny antagonisté a inhibitory metabolismus MeSH
- pteridiny farmakologie MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- zygota účinky léků metabolismus MeSH
- Check Tag
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- myši MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
In both mitosis and meiosis, metaphase to anaphase transition requires the activity of a ubiquitin ligase known as anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). The activation of APC/C in metaphase is under the control of the checkpoint mechanism, called the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), which monitors the correct attachment of all kinetochores to the spindle. It has been shown previously in somatic cells that exposure to a small molecule inhibitor, prodrug tosyl-l-arginine methyl ester (proTAME), resulted in cell cycle arrest in metaphase, with low APC/C activity. Interestingly, some reports have also suggested that the activity of SAC is required for this arrest. We focused on the characterization of proTAME inhibition of cell cycle progression in mammalian oocytes and embryos. Our results show that mammalian oocytes and early cleavage embryos show dose-dependent metaphase arrest after exposure to proTAME. However, in comparison to the somatic cells, we show here that the proTAME-induced arrest in these cells does not require SAC activity. Our results revealed important differences between mammalian oocytes and early embryos and somatic cells in their requirements of SAC for APC/C inhibition. In comparison to the somatic cells, oocytes and embryos show much higher frequency of aneuploidy. Our results are therefore important for understanding chromosome segregation control mechanisms, which might contribute to the premature termination of development or severe developmental and mental disorders of newborns.
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- anafázi podporující komplex metabolismus MeSH
- embryo savčí účinky léků metabolismus MeSH
- embryonální vývoj účinky léků MeSH
- kontrolní body M fáze buněčného cyklu * MeSH
- myši MeSH
- oocyty účinky léků růst a vývoj metabolismus MeSH
- prekurzory léčiv MeSH
- skot MeSH
- tosylargininmethylester aplikace a dávkování farmakologie MeSH
- vztah mezi dávkou a účinkem léčiva MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- myši MeSH
- skot MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
