Cyclin-dependent kinases phosphorylate human Cdt1 and induce its degradation

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作者
Liu, EB [1 ]
Li, XH [1 ]
Yan, F [1 ]
Zhao, QP [1 ]
Wu, XH [1 ]
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[1] Scripps Res Inst, Dept Mol & Expt Med, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
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10.1074/jbc.C300549200
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Eukaryotic cells tightly control DNA replication so that replication origins fire only once during S phase within the same cell cycle. Cell cycle-regulated degradation of the replication licensing factor Cdt1 plays important roles in preventing more than one round of DNA replication per cell cycle. We have previously shown that the SCFSkp2-mediated ubiquitination pathway plays an important role in Cdt1 degradation. In this study, we demonstrate that human Cdt1 is a substrate of Cdk2 and Cdk4 both in vivo and in vitro. Overexpression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors such as p21 and p27 dramatically suppresses the phosphorylation of Cdt1, disrupts the interaction of Cdt1 with the F-box protein Skp2, and blocks the degradation of Cdt1. Further analysis reveals that Cdt1 interacts with cyclin/cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) complexes through a cyclin/Cdk binding consensus site, located at the N terminus of Cdt1. A Cdt1 mutant carrying four amino acid substitutions at the Cdk binding site dramatically reduces associations with cyclin/Cdk complexes. This mutant is not phosphorylated, fails to bind Skp2 and is more stable than wild-type Cdt1. These data suggest that cyclin/Cdk-mediated Cdt1 phosphorylation is required for the association of Cdt1 with the SCFSkp2 ubiquitin ligase and thus is important for the cell cycle dependent degradation of Cdt1 in mammalian cells.
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