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Menon SS, Guruvayoorappan C, Sakthivel KM, Rasmi RR. Ki-67 protein as a tumour proliferation marker. Clin Chim Acta 2019; 491:39-45. [PMID: 30653951 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Newer treatment strategy based on proliferative nuclear marker Ki-67 targeted therapy holds promise for prioritized/personalized treatment options with regard to improved survival and outcome in patients with renal cancer. Over the past decade, the importance of Ki-67 in prognosis of breast cancer has been widely studied, however very few studies and literatures are available in the context of renal cancer which has an increasing incidence internationally. The focus of this present review is to fill the gaps pertaining to its prognosis and management with newly understood mechanisms of targeted interventions. Recent breakthrough discoveries have highlighted the correlation of Ki-67 expression to stage and metastatic potential in renal tumours. A better understanding of molecular structure and different protein domains along with its regulation will provide evidence for precise target thereby controlling the proliferation rate correlated with decrease in the Ki-67 protein levels. Therapies targeting Ki-67 is still in the preclinical stage, besides its diagnostic and/or prognostic significance, a better understanding of targeted strategical studies is required for extrapolation to the clinical use. Current understanding of the associated molecular pathways and the precise role of Ki-67 could streamline the basis for predicting renal cancer outcome.
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- Sunil Sankunny Menon
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, SAT, Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram 695 011, Kerala, India
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- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Research, Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 011, Kerala, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, PSG College of Arts and Science, Civil Aerodrome Post, Coimbatore 641 014, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Civil Aerodrome Post, Coimbatore 641 014, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Sun S, Sun L, Zhou X, Wu C, Wang R, Lin SH, Kuang J. Phosphorylation-Dependent Activation of the ESCRT Function of ALIX in Cytokinetic Abscission and Retroviral Budding. Dev Cell 2016; 36:331-43. [PMID: 26859355 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2015] [Revised: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The modular adaptor protein ALIX is a key player in multiple ESCRT-III-mediated membrane remodeling processes. ALIX is normally present in a closed conformation due to an intramolecular interaction that renders ALIX unable to perform its ESCRT functions. Here we demonstrate that M phase-specific phosphorylation of the intramolecular interaction site within the proline-rich domain (PRD) of ALIX transforms cytosolic ALIX from closed to open conformation. Defining the role of this mechanism of ALIX regulation in three classical ESCRT-mediated processes revealed that phosphorylation of the intramolecular interaction site in the PRD is required for ALIX to function in cytokinetic abscission and retroviral budding, but not in multivesicular body sorting of activated epidermal growth factor receptor. Thus, phosphorylation of the intramolecular interaction site in the PRD is one of the major mechanisms that activates the ESCRT function of ALIX.
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- Sheng Sun
- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230, USA; Experimental Therapeutics Academic Program, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- AbMax Biotechnology, Beijing 100085, China
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- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230, USA
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- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230, USA
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- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230, USA
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- Experimental Therapeutics Academic Program, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230, USA; Experimental Therapeutics Academic Program, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Zhang N, Yoon SY, Parys JB, Fissore RA. Effect of M-phase kinase phosphorylations on type 1 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor-mediated Ca2+ responses in mouse eggs. Cell Calcium 2015; 58:476-88. [PMID: 26259730 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2015.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2015] [Revised: 07/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The type 1 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R1) mediates increases in the intracellular concentration of Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)]i) during fertilization in mammalian eggs. The activity of IP3R1 is enhanced during oocyte maturation, and phosphorylations by M-phase kinases are thought to positively regulate the activity of IP3R1. Accordingly, we and others have found that IP3R1 is phosphorylated at S(421), T(799) (by Cdk1) and at S(436) (by ERK). Nevertheless, the effects of these phosphorylations on the function of the receptor and their impact on [Ca(2+)]i oscillations in eggs have not been clearly examined. To address this, we expressed in mouse oocytes an IP3R1 variant with the three indicated phosphorylation sites replaced by acidic residues, IIIE-IP3R1, such that it would act like a constitutively phosphorylated IP3R1, and examined [Ca(2+)]i parameters in response to stimuli. We found that overexpression of wild type (wt-IP3R1) or IIIE-IP3R1 in oocytes containing endogenous receptors caused dominant negative-like effects on Ca(2+) release and oscillations. Therefore, we first selectively removed the endogenous IP3R1, and subsequently expressed the exogenous receptors. We found that in response to injection of PLCζ cRNA, eggs without endogenous IP3R1 failed to mount persistent Ca(2+) oscillations, although expression of wt-IP3R1 restored their [Ca(2+)]i oscillatory activity. We also observed that the Ca(2+) oscillatory ability and the sensitivity to IP3 in eggs expressing IIIE-IP3R1 were greater than in those expressing wt-IP3R1. Lastly, we found that exogenous IP3R1s are resistant to downregulation and support longer oscillations and of higher amplitude. Altogether, our results show that phosphorylations by Cdk1 and MAPK enhance the activity of IP3R1, which is consistent with its maximal activity observed at the time of fertilization and the role of Ca(2+) release in egg activation.
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- Nan Zhang
- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Fertility Center of CHA Gangnam Medical Center, College of Medicine, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Republic of Korea
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- KU Leuven, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Campus Gasthuisberg O/N-I box 802, Herestraat 49, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
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Unravelling the pivotal role of Alix in MVB sorting and silencing of the activated EGFR. Biochem J 2015; 466:475-87. [PMID: 25510652 DOI: 10.1042/bj20141156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT)-III-mediated membrane invagination and scission are a critical step in multivesicular body (MVB) sorting of ubiquitinated membrane receptors, and generally thought to be required for degradation of these receptors in lysosomes. The adaptor protein Alix is critically involved in multiple ESCRT-III-mediated, membrane-remodelling processes in mammalian cells. However, Alix knockdown does not inhibit degradation of the activated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in mammalian cell lines, leading to a widely held notion that Alix is not critically involved in MVB sorting of ubiquitinated membrane receptors in mammalian cells. In the present study, we demonstrate that, despite its non-essential role in degradation of the activated EGFR, Alix plays a critical role in its MVB sorting and silencing Epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation of mammalian cell lines induces Alix's interaction with the ubiquitinated EGFR via the Alix V domain, and increases Alix's association with membrane-bound charged multivesicular body protein 4 (CHMP4) via the Alix Bro1 domain. Under both continuous and pulse-chase EGF stimulation conditions, inhibition of Alix's interaction with membrane-bound CHMP4, inhibition of Alix dimerization through the V domain or Alix knockdown dramatically inhibits MVB sorting of the activated EGFR and promotes sustained activation of extracellular-signal regulated kinase (ERK)1/2. Under the continuous EGF stimulation conditions, these cell treatments also retard degradation of the activated EGFR. These findings indicate that Alix is critically involved in MVB sorting of ubiquitinated membrane receptors in mammalian cells.
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Decoding the intrinsic mechanism that prohibits ALIX interaction with ESCRT and viral proteins. Biochem J 2011; 432:525-34. [PMID: 20929444 DOI: 10.1042/bj20100862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The adaptor protein ALIX [ALG-2 (apoptosis-linked-gene-2 product)-interacting protein X] links retroviruses to ESCRT (endosomal sorting complex required for transport) machinery during retroviral budding. This function of ALIX requires its interaction with the ESCRT-III component CHMP4 (charged multivesicular body protein 4) at the N-terminal Bro1 domain and retroviral Gag proteins at the middle V domain. Since cytoplasmic or recombinant ALIX is unable to interact with CHMP4 or retroviral Gag proteins under non-denaturing conditions, we constructed ALIX truncations and mutations to define the intrinsic mechanism through which ALIX interactions with these partner proteins are prohibited. Our results demonstrate that an intramolecular interaction between Patch 2 in the Bro1 domain and the TSG101 (tumour susceptibility gene 101 protein)-docking site in the proline-rich domain locks ALIX into a closed conformation that renders ALIX unable to interact with CHMP4 and retroviral Gag proteins. Relieving the intramolecular interaction of ALIX, by ectopically expressing a binding partner for one of the intramolecular interaction sites or by deleting one of these sites, promotes ALIX interaction with these partner proteins and facilitates ALIX association with the membrane. Ectopic expression of a GFP (green fluorescent protein)-ALIX mutant with a constitutively open conformation, but not the wild-type protein, increases EIAV (equine infectious anaemia virus) budding from HEK (human embryonic kidney)-293 cells. These findings predict that relieving the autoinhibitory intramolecular interaction of ALIX is a critical step for ALIX to participate in retroviral budding.
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ITO J, YOSHIDA T, KASAI Y, WAKAI T, PARYS JB, FISSORE RA, KASHIWAZAKI N. Phosphorylation of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor 1 duringin vitromaturation of porcine oocytes. Anim Sci J 2010; 81:34-41. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-0929.2009.00699.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Phosphorylation of STIM1 underlies suppression of store-operated calcium entry during mitosis. Nat Cell Biol 2009; 11:1465-72. [PMID: 19881501 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2009] [Accepted: 08/21/2009] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) and Ca(2+) release-activated Ca(2+) currents (I(crac)) are strongly suppressed during cell division, the only known physiological situation in which Ca(2+) store depletion is uncoupled from the activation of Ca(2+) influx [corrected]. We found that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) sensor STIM1 failed to rearrange into near-plasma membrane puncta in mitotic cells, a critical step in the SOCE-activation pathway. We also found that STIM1 from mitotic cells is recognized by the phospho-specific MPM-2 antibody, suggesting that STIM1 is phosphorylated during mitosis. Removal of ten MPM-2 recognition sites by truncation at amino acid 482 abolished MPM-2 recognition of mitotic STIM1, and significantly rescued STIM1 rearrangement and SOCE response in mitosis. We identified Ser 486 and Ser 668 as mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites, and STIM1 containing mutations of these sites to alanine also significantly rescued mitotic SOCE. Therefore, phosphorylation of STIM1 at Ser 486 and Ser 668, and possibly other sites, underlies suppression of SOCE during mitosis.
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Jacobberger JW, Frisa PS, Sramkoski RM, Stefan T, Shults KE, Soni DV. A new biomarker for mitotic cells. Cytometry A 2008; 73:5-15. [PMID: 18061938 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Many epitopes are phosphorylated during mitosis. These epitopes are useful biomarkers for mitotic cells. The most commonly used are MPM-2 and serine 10 of histone H3. Here we investigated the use of an antibody generated against a phospho peptide matching residues 774-788 of the human retinoblastoma protein 1 (Rb) to detect mitotic cells. Human cell lines were stained with DNA dyes and antibodies reactive with epitopes defined by antibody MPM-2, phospho-S10-histone-H3, and the phospho-serine peptide, TRPPTLSPIPHIPRC (phospho-S780-Rb). Immunoreactivity and DNA content were measured by flow and image cytometry. Correlation and pattern recognition analyses were performed on list mode data. Western blots and immunoprecipitation were used to investigate the number of peptides reactive with phospho-S780-Rb and the relationship between reactivity with this antibody and MPM-2. Costaining for bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) was used to determine acid resistance of the phospho-S780-Rb epitope. Cell cycle related phospho-S780-Rb immunofluorescence correlated strongly with that of MPM-2. Laser scanning cytometry showed that phospho-S780-Rb immunofluorescence is expressed at high levels on all stages of mitotic cells. Western blotting and immunoprecipitation showed that the epitope is expressed on several peptides including Rb protein. Costaining of BrdU showed that the epitope is stable to acid. Kinetic experiments showed utility in complex cell cycle analysis aimed at measuring cell cycle transition state timing. The phospho-S780-Rb epitope is a robust marker of mitosis that allows cytometric detection of mitotic cells beginning with chromatin condensation and ending after cytokinesis. Costaining of cells with DNA dyes allows discrimination and counting of mitotic cells and post-cytokinetic ("newborn") cells. To facilitate use without confusion about specificity, we suggest the trivial name, pS780 for this mitotic epitope.
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- James W Jacobberger
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
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Lee B, Vermassen E, Yoon SY, Vanderheyden V, Ito J, Alfandari D, De Smedt H, Parys JB, Fissore RA. Phosphorylation of IP3R1 and the regulation of [Ca2+]i responses at fertilization: a role for the MAP kinase pathway. Development 2007; 133:4355-65. [PMID: 17038520 PMCID: PMC2909192 DOI: 10.1242/dev.02624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A sperm-induced intracellular Ca2+ signal ([Ca2+]i) underlies the initiation of embryo development in most species studied to date. The inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate receptor type 1 (IP3R1) in mammals, or its homologue in other species, is thought to mediate the majority of this Ca2+ release. IP3R1-mediated Ca2+ release is regulated during oocyte maturation such that it reaches maximal effectiveness at the time of fertilization, which, in mammalian eggs, occurs at the metaphase stage of the second meiosis (MII). Consistent with this, the [Ca2+]i oscillations associated with fertilization in these species occur most prominently during the MII stage. In this study, we have examined the molecular underpinnings of IP3R1 function in eggs. Using mouse and Xenopus eggs, we show that IP3R1 is phosphorylated during both maturation and the first cell cycle at a MPM2-detectable epitope(s), which is known to be a target of kinases controlling the cell cycle. In vitro phosphorylation studies reveal that MAPK/ERK2, one of the M-phase kinases, phosphorylates IP3R1 at at least one highly conserved site, and that its mutation abrogates IP3R1 phosphorylation in this domain. Our studies also found that activation of the MAPK/ERK pathway is required for the IP3R1 MPM2 reactivity observed in mouse eggs, and that eggs deprived of the MAPK/ERK pathway during maturation fail to mount normal [Ca2+]i oscillations in response to agonists and show compromised IP3R1 function. These findings identify IP3R1 phosphorylation by M-phase kinases as a regulatory mechanism of IP3R1 function in eggs that serves to optimize [Ca2+]i release at fertilization.
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- Bora Lee
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
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- Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O/N1, bus 802, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
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- Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O/N1, bus 802, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
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- Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O/N1, bus 802, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O/N1, bus 802, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
- Author for correspondence ()
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DeJournett R, Kobayashi R, Pan S, Wu C, Etkin L, Clark R, Bögler O, Kuang J. Phosphorylation of the proline-rich domain of Xp95 modulates Xp95 interaction with partner proteins. Biochem J 2007; 401:521-31. [PMID: 16978157 PMCID: PMC1820820 DOI: 10.1042/bj20061287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The mammalian adaptor protein Alix [ALG-2 (apoptosis-linked-gene-2 product)-interacting protein X] belongs to a conserved family of proteins that have in common an N-terminal Bro1 domain and a C-terminal PRD (proline-rich domain), both of which mediate partner protein interactions. Following our previous finding that Xp95, the Xenopus orthologue of Alix, undergoes a phosphorylation-dependent gel mobility shift during progesteroneinduced oocyte meiotic maturation, we explored potential regulation of Xp95/Alix by protein phosphorylation in hormone-induced cell cycle re-entry or M-phase induction. By MALDI-TOF (matrix-assisted laser-desorption ionization-time-of-flight) MS analyses and gel mobility-shift assays, Xp95 is phosphorylated at multiple sites within the N-terminal half of the PRD during Xenopus oocyte maturation, and a similar region in Alix is phosphorylated in mitotically arrested but not serum-stimulated mammalian cells. By tandem MS, Thr745 within this region, which localizes in a conserved binding site to the adaptor protein SETA [SH3 (Src homology 3) domain-containing, expressed in tumorigenic astrocytes] CIN85 (a-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate)/SH3KBP1 (SH3-domain kinase-binding protein 1), is one of the phosphorylation sites in Xp95. Results from GST (glutathione S-transferase)-pull down and peptide binding/competition assays further demonstrate that the Thr745 phosphorylation inhibits Xp95 interaction with the second SH3 domain of SETA. However, immunoprecipitates of Xp95 from extracts of M-phase-arrested mature oocytes contained additional partner proteins as compared with immunoprecipitates from extracts of G2-arrested immature oocytes. The deubiquitinase AMSH (associated molecule with the SH3 domain of signal transducing adaptor molecule) specifically interacts with phosphorylated Xp95 in M-phase cell lysates. These findings establish that Xp95/Alix is phosphorylated within the PRD during M-phase induction, and indicate that the phosphorylation may both positively and negatively modulate their interaction with partner proteins.
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- Robert E. DeJournett
- *Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
- †Department of Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
- ‡Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
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- §Department of Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
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- *Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
- †Department of Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
- ‡Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
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- ∥Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
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- ∥Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
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- ¶Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX 77225, U.S.A
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- †Department of Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
- ‡Program in Genes and Development, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
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- *Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 019, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Wu Y, Pan S, Che S, He G, Nelman-Gonzalez M, Weil MM, Kuang J. Overexpression of Hp95 induces G1 phase arrest in confluent HeLa cells. Differentiation 2001; 67:139-53. [PMID: 11683497 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2001.670406.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Xp95, a protein recently identified in Xenopus laevis, is potentially involved in progesterone-induced Xenopus oocyte maturation. In this study, we cloned a human homologue of Xp95, designated Hp95, and examined the effect of its overexpression on the growth properties of human malignant HeLa cells which have lost the contact inhibition of cell proliferation. We observed that although HeLa cells did not undergo G1 phase arrest at any stage after confluence, they were able to downregulate their G1 phase CDK activities in response to confluence. When Hp95 was overexpressed in HeLa cells by transfection with a constitutive or an inducible expression vector containing a full-length Hp95 transgene, HeLa cells became able to undergo G1 phase arrest and form a monolayer culture after confluence. However, the G1 phase CDK activities in these Hp95 overexpressing cells were not inhibited further as compared to control cells after confluence. These results indicate that the defects in HeLa cells that cause the loss of contact inhibition of cell proliferation are in components downstream of the G1 phase CDKs and that overexpression of Hp95 counteracts some of these defects.
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- Y Wu
- Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
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Kinetochores are large protein complexes that bind to centromeres. By interacting with microtubules and their associated motor proteins, kinetochores both generate and regulate chromosome movement. Kinetochores also function in the spindle checkpoint; a surveillance mechanism that ensures that metaphase is complete before anaphase begins. Although the ultrastructure of plant kinetochores has been known for many years, only recently have specific kinetochore proteins been identified. The recent data indicate that plant kinetochores contain homologs of many of the proteins implicated in animal and fungal kinetochore function, and that the plant kinetochore is a redundant structure with distinct biochemical subdomains.
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- H G Yu
- Dept of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Escargueil AE, Plisov SY, Filhol O, Cochet C, Larsen AK. Mitotic phosphorylation of DNA topoisomerase II alpha by protein kinase CK2 creates the MPM-2 phosphoepitope on Ser-1469. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:34710-8. [PMID: 10942766 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m005179200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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DNA topoisomerase II alpha is required for chromatin condensation during prophase. This process is temporally linked with the appearance of mitosis-specific phosphorylation sites on topoisomerase IIalpha including one recognized by the MPM-2 monoclonal antibody. We now report that the ability of mitotic extracts to create the MPM-2 epitope on human topoisomerase II alpha is abolished by immunodepletion of protein kinase CK2. Furthermore, the MPM-2 phosphoepitope on topoisomerase II alpha can be generated by purified CK2. Phosphorylation of C-truncated topoisomerase II alpha mutant proteins conclusively shows, that the MPM-2 epitope is present in the last 163 amino acids. Use of peptides containing all conserved CK2 consensus sites in this region indicates that only the peptide containing Arg-1466 to Ala-1485 is able to compete with topoisomerase II alpha for binding of the MPM-2 antibody. Replacement of Ser-1469 with Ala abolishes the ability of the phosphorylated peptide to bind to the MPM-2 antibody while a peptide containing phosphorylated Ser-1469 binds tightly. Surprisingly, the MPM-2 phosphoepitope influences neither the catalytic activity of topoisomerase II alpha nor its ability to form molecular complexes with CK2 in vitro. In conclusion, we have identified protein kinase CK2 as a new MPM-2 kinase able to phosphorylate an important mitotic protein, topoisomerase II alpha, on Ser-1469.
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- A E Escargueil
- Laboratoire de Biologie et Pharmacologie des Tumeurs, CNRS UMR 8532, Institut Gustave-Roussy PR2, Villejuif 94805 Cedex, France
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The Ki-67 protein is a nuclear and nucleolar protein, which is tightly associated with somatic cell proliferation. Antibodies raised against the human Ki-67 protein paved the way for the immunohistological assessment of cell proliferation, particularly useful in numerous studies on the prognostic value of cell growth in clinical samples of human neoplasms. The primary structure revealed potential phosphorylation site for a range of essential kinases, PEST sequences, and a forkhead-associated domain, which are features present in a variety of cell-cycle-regulating proteins, but information about the position of the Ki-67 protein within the protein network that drives the cell cycle remained scarce. There is now evidence that posttranslational modifications based on phosphorylation by cdc2 kinase and PKC accompany the remarkable redistribution of the Ki-67 protein from the interior of the nucleus to the perichromosomal layer during mitosis and vice versa. The discovery of Ki-67 equivalents in other species is advantageous for a precise and cross-species investigation of the structural requirements for its yet unknown function. The recently published data add new pieces to the challenging puzzle of this multifaceted protein, which are waiting to be put together.
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- E Endl
- Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, D-23845, Germany.
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Ki-67 is a nuclear protein present in all proliferating cells that are in the active part of the cell division, but not in resting cells. This feature is extensively used in tumor diagnostics to estimate the growth fraction of a given cell population. We now demonstrate that the spatial and temporal regulation of the Ki-67 protein during the cell cycle is associated with mitosis-specific phosphorylation. These posttranslational modifications of the Ki-67 protein are accompanied by a characteristic redistribution of the protein from the interior of the nucleus to the periphery of the condensed chromosomes and vice versa. Phosphorylation could be suppressed by activating cell-cycle checkpoints that control the entry into mitosis through the activity of the cyclin B/cdc2 complex. In vitro experiments confirm that the presence of the cdc2 kinase and its regulatory subunit cyclin B is required for the phosphorylation of the Ki-67 protein. We further demonstrated that the Ki-67 protein is a new member of the family of MPM-2 reactive phosphoproteins, which includes both structural and functional proteins that are necessary for the control and timing of mitosis. Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the Ki-67 protein are therefore controlled by key regulatory structures of the cell cycle and occur at two hallmark events within the cell cycle: the breakdown and the reorganization of the nucleus during mitosis.
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- E Endl
- Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Division of Molecular Immunology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
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Lavoie SB, Albert AL, Thibodeau A, Vincent M. Heat shock-induced alterations in phosphorylation of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II as revealed by monoclonal antibodies CC-3 and MPM-2. Biochem Cell Biol 1999. [DOI: 10.1139/o99-037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The phosphorylation of the carboxy-terminal domain of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II plays an important role in the regulation of transcriptional activity and is also implicated in pre-mRNA processing. Different stresses, such as a heat shock, induce a marked alteration in the phosphorylation of this domain. The expression of stress genes by RNA polymerase II, to the detriment of other genes, could be attributable to such modifications of the phosphorylation sites. Using two phosphodependent antibodies recognizing distinct hyperphosphorylated forms of RNA polymerase II largest subunit, we studied the phosphorylation state of the subunit in different species after heat shocks of varying intensities. One of these antibodies, CC-3, preferentially recognizes the carboxy-terminal domain of the largest subunit under normal conditions, but its reactivity is diminished during stress. In contrast, the other antibody used, MPM-2, demonstrated a strong reactivity after a heat shock in most species studied. Therefore, CC-3 and MPM-2 antibodies discriminate between phosphoisomers that may be functionally different. Our results further indicate that the pattern of phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II in most species varies in response to environmental stress.Key words: RNA polymerase II, heat shock, phosphorylation, CC-3, MPM-2.
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Albert A, Lavoie S, Vincent M. A hyperphosphorylated form of RNA polymerase II is the major interphase antigen of the phosphoprotein antibody MPM-2 and interacts with the peptidyl-prolyl isomerase Pin1. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 15):2493-500. [PMID: 10393805 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.15.2493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The monoclonal antibody MPM-2 recognizes a subset of M phase phosphoproteins in a phosphorylation-dependent manner. It is believed that phosphorylation at MPM-2 antigenic sites could regulate mitotic events since most of the MPM-2 antigens identified to date have M phase functions. In addition, many of these proteins are substrates of the mitotic regulator Pin1, a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase which is present throughout the cell cycle and which is thought to alter its mitotic targets by changing their conformation. In interphase cells, most MPM-2 reactivity is confined to nuclear speckles. We report here that a hyperphosphorylated form of the RNA polymerase II largest subunit is the major MPM-2 interphase antigen. These findings were made possible by the availability of another monoclonal antibody, CC-3, that was previously used to identify a 255 kDa nuclear matrix protein associated with spliceosomal components as a hyperphosphorylated form of the RNA polymerase II largest subunit. MPM-2 recognizes a phosphoepitope of the large subunit that becomes hyperphosphorylated upon heat shock in contrast to the phosphoepitope defined by CC-3, whose reactivity is diminished by the heat treatment. Therefore, these two antibodies may discriminate between distinct functional forms of RNA polymerase II. We also show that RNA polymerase II large subunit interacts with Pin1 in HeLa cells. Pin1 may thus regulate transcriptional and post-transcriptional events by catalyzing phosphorylation-dependent conformational changes of the large RNA polymerase II subunit.
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- A Albert
- Département de médecine and CREFSIP, Pavillon C.-E.-Marchand, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
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Bauer A, Lickert H, Kemler R, Stappert J. Modification of the E-cadherin-catenin complex in mitotic Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28314-21. [PMID: 9774455 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.43.28314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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One of the hallmarks of polarized epithelial cells undergoing mitosis is their rounded morphology. This phenotype correlates with a reduced cell-substratum adhesion, apparently caused by a modulation of integrin function. However, it is still unclear whether the cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion is affected as well. To address this question, the cadherin complex was analyzed in different cell cycle stages of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. By immunofluorescence, mitotic Madin-Darby canine kidney cells showed an increased staining of E-cadherin and the catenins (alpha-catenin, beta-catenin, plakoglobin, p120(ctn)) in the cytosol, suggesting a reorganization of the cadherin-catenin complex during mitosis. Biochemical analysis revealed that the overall amount of these components, as well as the proportion of the complex associated with the actin cytoskeleton, remained unchanged in mitotic cells. However, we found evidence for an internalization of E-cadherin during mitosis. In addition, the cadherin-catenin complex was analyzed for mitosis-specific changes in phosphorylation. We report a decrease in the tyrosine phosphorylation of beta-catenin, plakoglobin, and p120(ctn) during mitosis. Moreover, we observed a mitosis-specific Ser/Thr-phosphorylation of p120(ctn), as detected by the MPM-2 antibody. Hence, the cadherin/catenin complex is a target for different posttranslational modifications during mitosis, which may also have a profound impact on cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion.
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- A Bauer
- Department of Molecular Embryology, Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Stübeweg 51, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany
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