Characterisation of human cdc2 lysine 33 mutations expressed in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

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D LeroyB Ducommun

Abstract

The mammalian p34cdc2 protein kinase, a universal cell cycle regulator, complements cdc2/CDC28 temperature-sensitive mutations in yeasts. We report the biochemical characterisation of two substitutions of human cdc2 at lysine 33, a residue involved in nucleotide binding, that differently alter the fission yeast cell cycle. K33A-hscdc2 and K33R-hscdc2 mutants are both catalytically inactive, but overexpression of K33R-cdc2 is lethal while K33A-cdc2 is not. We show that human K33R-cdc2 acts as a dominant negative allele that associates yeast cdc13/cyclinB and therefore renders endogeneous Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc2 unactivatable. These results are discussed on the light of the molecular modeling of the mutants in the cdc2 model structure.

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Nov 28, 2014·The Journal of Biological Chemistry·Bartlomiej Bartkowiak, Arno L Greenleaf

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