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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 9, Pages 3184-3189Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809350106
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Chk1; DNA replication; molecular combing; ATR protein; checkpoint
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- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan
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Somatic mammalian cells possess well-established S-phase programs with specific regions of the genome replicated at precise times. The ATR-Chk1 pathway plays a central role in these programs, but the mechanism for how Chk1 regulates origin firing remains unknown. We demonstrate here the essential role of cyclin A2-Cdk1 in the regulation of late origin firing. Activity of cyclin A2-Cdk1 was hardly detected at the onset of S phase, but it was obvious at middle to late S phase under unperturbed condition. Chk1 depletion resulted in increased expression of Cdc25A, subsequent hyperactivation of cyclin A2-Cdk1, and abnormal replication at early S phase. Hence, the ectopic expression of cyclin A2-Cdk1AF (constitutively active mutant) fusion constructs resulted in abnormal origin firing, causing the premature appearance of DNA replication at late origins at early S phase. Intriguingly, inactivation of Cdk1 in temperature-sensitive Cdk1 mutant cell lines (FT210) resulted in a prolonged S phase and inefficient activation of late origin firing even at late S phase. Our results thus suggest that cyclin A2-Cdk1 is a key regulator of S-phase programs.
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