Adhesion-dependent control of cyclin E/cdk2 activity and cell cycle progression in normal cells but not in Ha-ras transformed NRK cells

Experimental Cell Research
C P CarstensW E Fahl

Abstract

Loss of adhesion of NRK fibroblasts to an appropriate surface leads to cell cycle arrest in late G1 and failure to produce cyclin A. Previously, we showed that adhesion-dependent expression of cyclin A is transcriptionally regulated. In an effort to identify elements of the adhesion-mediated signal transduction cascade upstream of cyclin A activation, we investigated the expression of cyclin E and its associated kinase activity in adherent and suspended NRK cells. Expression of cyclin E was found to be unaffected by suspension. However, cyclin E complexes immunoprecipitated from extracts prepared from NRK cells 12 h after release from G0 arrest were found to be catalytically inactive in suspended but not in adherent cells. This suspension-induced inhibition of cyclin E-associated kinase activity was not observed in NRK cells transformed by a c-Ha-ras oncogene containing a G12V mutation. When G0-synchronized NRK cells were transfected with a cyclin A promoter:luciferase reporter construct along with expression vectors for either wild-type cdk2 or a dominant-negative cdk2 mutant, transcriptional activation of cyclin A was found to be dependent on catalytically active cdk2. Inhibition of cyclin E/cdk2 complexes has frequently been...Continue Reading

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