期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
卷 78, 期 4, 页码 1781-1798出版社
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-020-03616-6
关键词
Zinc transport; Cell division; pSer(727)STAT3; Cell cycle progression; Cell growth
资金
- Wellcome Trust University Research Award [091991/Z/10/Z]
- Tenovus Cancer Care [PhD 2015/L31]
- Life Sciences Research Network Wales
- Breast Cancer Molecular Pharmacology Group
- Wellcome Trust [091991/Z/10/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
This research reveals the crucial role of zinc in cell division, showing how zinc influx through a heteromer of ZIP6 and ZIP10 at a specific time of the cell cycle triggers the pathway leading to mitosis. Blocking this pathway may prevent cells from undergoing mitosis, offering new therapeutic opportunities for proliferative diseases like cancer.
Zinc has been known to be essential for cell division for over 40 years but the molecular pathways involved remain elusive. Cellular zinc import across biological membranes necessitates the help of zinc transporters such as the SLC39A family of ZIP transporters. We have discovered a molecular process that explains why zinc is required for cell division, involving two highly regulated zinc transporters, as a heteromer of ZIP6 and ZIP10, providing the means of cellular zinc entry at a specific time of the cell cycle that initiates a pathway resulting in the onset of mitosis. Crucially, when the zinc influx across this heteromer is blocked by ZIP6 or ZIP10 specific antibodies, there is no evidence of mitosis, confirming the requirement for zinc influx as a trigger of mitosis. The zinc that influxes into cells to trigger mitosis additionally changes the phosphorylation state of STAT3 converting it from a transcription factor to a protein that complexes with this heteromer and pS(38)Stathmin, the form allowing microtubule rearrangement as required in mitosis. This discovery now explains the specific cellular role of ZIP6 and ZIP10 and how they have special importance in the mitosis process compared to other ZIP transporter family members. This finding offers new therapeutic opportunities for inhibition of cell division in the many proliferative diseases that exist, such as cancer.
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