Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres.

Autor: Conti D; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany., Verza AE; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.; Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany., Pesenti ME; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany., Cmentowski V; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.; Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany., Vetter IR; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany., Pan D; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany., Musacchio A; Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.; Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.) [Science] 2024 Sep 06; Vol. 385 (6713), pp. 1091-1097. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 05.
DOI: 10.1126/science.ado5178
Abstrakt: The centromere, a chromosome locus defined by the histone H3-like protein centromeric protein A (CENP-A), promotes assembly of the kinetochore to bind microtubules during cell division. Centromere maintenance requires CENP-A to be actively replenished by dedicated protein machinery in the early G 1 phase of the cell cycle to compensate for its dilution after DNA replication. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) limit CENP-A deposition to once per cell cycle and function as negative regulators outside of early G 1 . Antithetically, Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) promotes CENP-A deposition in early G 1 , but the molecular details of this process are still unknown. We reveal here a phosphorylation network that recruits PLK1 to the deposition machinery to control a conformational switch required for licensing the CENP-A deposition reaction. Our findings clarify how PLK1 contributes to the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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