p27Kip1, a cyclin-Cdk inhibitor, links transforming growth factor-beta and contact inhibition to cell cycle arrest.
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Genes & Development
- Vol. 8 (1) , 9-22
- https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.8.1.9
Abstract
Cell-cell contact and TGF-beta can arrest the cell cycle in G1. Mv1Lu mink epithelial cells arrested by either mechanism are incapable of assembling active complexes containing the G1 cyclin, cyclin E, and its catalytic subunit, Cdk2. These growth inhibitory signals block Cdk2 activation by raising the threshold level of cyclin E necessary to activate Cdk2. In arrested cells the threshold is set higher than physiological cyclin E levels and is determined by an inhibitor that binds to cyclin E-Cdk2 complexes. A 27-kD protein that binds to and prevents the activation of cyclin E-Cdk2 complexes can be purified from arrested cells but not from proliferating cells, using cyclin E-Cdk2 affinity chromatography. p27 is present in proliferating cells, but it is sequestered and unavailable to interact with cyclin E-Cdk2 complexes. Cyclin D2-Cdk4 complexes bind competitively to and down-regulate the activity of p27 and may thereby act in a pathway that reverses Cdk2 inhibition and enables G1 progression.Keywords
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