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BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 1766-1771Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130190
Keywords
cell division cycle 25 (Cdc25); centrosome; mitosis; Polo kinase; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Wee1
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- Cancer Research UK (CRUK) [C147/A6058]
- Cancer Research UK [16406] Funding Source: researchfish
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The activation of the Cdk1 (cyclin-dependent kinase 1)-cyclin B complex to promote commitment to mitosis is controlled by the phosphorylation status of the Cdk1 catalytic subunit. Cdk1 phosphorylation by Wee1 kinases blocks activation until Cdc25 (cell division cycle 25) phosphatases remove this phosphate to drive division. Feedback inhibition of Wee1 and promotion of Cdc25 activities by the newly activated Cdk1-cyclin B complexes ensure that the transition from interphase to mitosis is a rapid and complete bi-stable switch. Although this level of molecular understanding of the mitotic commitment switch has been clear for over two decades, it is still unclear how the switch is engaged to promote division at the right time for a particular context. We discuss recent work in fission yeast that shows how the spatial organization of signalling networks, in particular events on the centrosome equivalent, the spindle pole body, plays a key role in ensuring that the timing of cell division is coupled to environmental cues.
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