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Experimental Approaches to Study Mitochondrial Localization and Function of a Nuclear Cell Cycle Kinase, Cdk1
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El TFIIH está regulado negativamente por complejos mediadores que contienen cdk8
S Akoulitchev1, S Chuikov, D Reinberg
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
Nature
|September 19, 2000
Resumen
La cinasa dependiente de ciclina 8 (cdk8) regula la transcripción mediante la fosforilación de la ciclina H, lo que afecta al factor de transcripción TFIIH. Este descubrimiento vincula el complejo Mediador con la maquinaria de transcripción basal en organismos superiores.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Reglamento genético Reglamento genético.
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
Sus antecedentes:
- La cinasa dependiente de ciclina 8 (cdk8) está implicada en las leucemias linfoblásticas agudas y en la regulación de la transcripción.
- La cdk8 / ciclina C de los mamíferos y la levadura Srb10 / Srb11 son parte de la holoenzima ARN polimerasa II, que actúa como kinasas.
- El complejo cdk8 / ciclina C se encuentra en complejos similares a mediadores que reprimen la transcripción.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar el mecanismo de regulación de cdk8 / ciclina C en la transcripción.
- Para determinar cómo cdk8 / ciclina C interactúa con el factor general de iniciación de la transcripción IIH (TFIIH).
Principales métodos:
- Investigó la fosforilación de la ciclina H de los mamíferos por cdk8.
- Evaluó el impacto de esta fosforilación en la actividad del TFIIH in vitro.
- Examinó los efectos in vivo de imitar la fosforilación del cdk8 en la ciclina H.
Principales resultados:
- Cdk8 fosforila la ciclina H de mamíferos cerca de sus dominios helicoidales únicos.
- Esta fosforilación inhibe la activación de la transcripción de TFIIH y la actividad de la cinasa CTD.
- La imitación de la fosforilación cdk8 de la ciclina H in vivo causó un efecto negativo dominante en el crecimiento celular.
Conclusiones:
- Cdk8 / ciclina C regula la transcripción al dirigirse a las subunidades TFIIH.
- Una vía reguladora que involucra a cdk8 y TFIIH enlaza el complejo Mediator y la maquinaria de transcripción basal.
- Esta vía reguladora parece ser específica de los organismos superiores.
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