Recruitment of Cln3 Cyclin to Promoters Controls Cell Cycle Entry via Histone Deacetylase and Other Targets
Open Access
- 8 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 7 (9), e1000189
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000189
Abstract
In yeast, the G1 cyclin Cln3 promotes cell cycle entry by activating the transcription factor SBF. In mammals, there is a parallel system for cell cycle entry in which cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) activates transcription factor E2F/Dp. Here we show that Cln3 regulates SBF by at least two different pathways, one involving the repressive protein Whi5, and the second involving Stb1. The Rpd3 histone deacetylase complex is also involved. Cln3 binds to SBF at the CLN2 promoter, and removes previously bound Whi5 and histone deacetylase. Adding extra copies of the SBF binding site to the cell delays Start, possibly by titrating Cln3. Since Rpd3 is the yeast ortholog of mammalian HDAC1, there is now a virtually complete analogy between the proteins regulating cell cycle entry in yeast (SBF, Cln3, Whi5 and Stb1, Rpd3) and mammals (E2F, Cyclin D, Rb, HDAC1). The cell may titrate Cln3 molecules against the number of SBF binding sites, and this could be the underlying basis of the size-control mechanism for Start. Cells seem to divide only after they have grown “big enough.” Entry into the cell cycle, at a point called Start in budding yeast, is triggered by activation of the Cln3 cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK), which in turn activates downstream transcription. We find that the Cln3-CDK acts through a histone deacetylase, as well as through the previously discovered repressor Whi5, to activate the SBF transcription factor and trigger entry into the cell cycle. The system is strikingly similar to the one in mammalian cells, which relies on Cyclin D, CDK, the transcription factor E2F, its repressor Rb, and the histone deacetylase system. There is preliminary evidence that as the yeast cell grows in size, the increasing number of Cln3 molecules is titrated against the fixed number of Cln3-CDK-SBF binding sites in genomic DNA, and that this cell size-dependent titration could be the mechanism that makes cell cycle entry dependent on cell size.This publication has 69 references indexed in Scilit:
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