Mitotic and G2 checkpoint control: regulation of 14-3-3 protein binding by phosphorylation of Cdc25C on serine-216. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Human Cdc25C is a dual-specificity protein phosphatase that controls entry into mitosis by dephosphorylating the protein kinase Cdc2. Throughout interphase, but not in mitosis, Cdc25C was phosphorylated on serine-216 and bound to members of the highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed family of 14-3-3 proteins. A mutation preventing phosphorylation of serine-216 abrogated 14-3-3 binding. Conditional overexpression of this mutant perturbed mitotic timing and allowed cells to escape the G2 checkpoint arrest induced by either unreplicated DNA or radiation-induced damage. Chk1, a fission yeast kinase involved in the DNA damage checkpoint response, phosphorylated Cdc25C in vitro on serine-216. These results indicate that serine-216 phosphorylation and 14-3-3 binding negatively regulate Cdc25C and identify Cdc25C as a potential target of checkpoint control in human cells.

publication date

  • September 5, 1997

Research

keywords

  • Cell Cycle Proteins
  • G2 Phase
  • Mitosis
  • Proteins
  • Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
  • cdc25 Phosphatases

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0030611095

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1126/science.277.5331.1501

PubMed ID

  • 9278512

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 277

issue

  • 5331