Reference - PMID:21098641 - Regulation of cell cycle-specific gene expression in fission yeast by the Cdc14p-like phosphatase Clp1p.
Reference summary
- PubMed ID
- PMID:21098641
- Title
- Regulation of cell cycle-specific gene expression in fission yeast by the Cdc14p-like phosphatase Clp1p.
- Authors
- Papadopoulou K, Chen JS, Mead E, Feoktistova A, Petit C, Agarwal M, Jamal M, Malik A, Spanos A, Sedgwick SG, Karagiannis J, Balasubramanian MK, Gould KL, McInerny CJ
- Citation
- J Cell Sci 2010 Dec 15;123(Pt 24):4374-81
- Publication year
- 2010
- Abstract
- Regulated gene expression makes an important contribution to cell cycle control mechanisms. In fission yeast, a group of genes is coordinately expressed during a late stage of the cell cycle (M phase and cytokinesis) that is controlled by common cis-acting promoter motifs named pombe cell cycle boxes (PCBs), which are bound by a trans-acting transcription factor complex, PCB binding factor (PBF). PBF contains at least three transcription factors, a MADS box protein Mbx1p and two forkhead transcription factors, Sep1p and Fkh2p. Here we show that the fission yeast Cdc14p-like phosphatase Clp1p (Flp1p) controls M-G1 specific gene expression through PBF. Clp1p binds in vivo both to Mbx1p, a MADS box-like transcription factor, and to the promoters of genes transcribed at this cell cycle time. Because Clp1p dephosphorylates Mbx1p in vitro, and is required for Mbx1p cell cycle-specific dephosphorylation in vivo, our observations suggest that Clp1p controls cell cycle-specific gene expression through binding to and dephosphorylating Mbx1p.
