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ArticleCell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)2012

Why minimal is not optimal: driving the mammalian cell cycle--and drug discovery--with a physiologic CDK control network.

Karl A Merrick, Robert P Fisher

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Article in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Targeting CDKs in the RNAPII transcription cycle.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  3. Identification of Key Pathways and Genes in Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma via Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2018
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  5. Expression of CDK7, Cyclin H, and MAT1 Is Elevated in Breast Cancer and Is Prognostic in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2016
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  7. Mitigation of acute kidney injury by cell-cycle inhibitors that suppress both CDK4/6 and OCT2 functions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Karl A MerrickDepartment of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Robert P Fisher
Cornell University · USNew York Proton Center · US

Funding

The CAK Network in Metazoan Cell Cycle RegulationR01GM056985 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI FISHER, ROBERT P · 1998 to 2010
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM056985NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM056985
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Progression through the eukaryotic cell division cycle is governed by the activity of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). For a CDK to become active it must (1) bind a positive regulatory subunit (cyclin) and (2) be phosphorylated on its activation (T) loop. In metazoans, multiple CDK catalytic subunits, each with a distinct set of preferred cyclin partners, regulate the cell cycle, but it has been difficult to assign functions to individual CDKs in vivo. Biochemical analyses and experiments with dominant-negative alleles suggested that specific CDK/cyclin complexes regulate different events, but genetic loss of interphase CDKs (Cdk2, -4 and -6), alone or in combination, did not block proliferation of cells in culture. These knockout and knockdown studies suggested redundancy or plasticity built into the CDK network but did not address whether there was true redundancy in normal cells with a full complement of CDKs. Here, we discuss recent work that took a chemical-genetic approach to reveal that the activity of a genetically non-essential CDK, Cdk2, is required for cell proliferation when normal cyclin pairing is maintained. These results have implications for the systems-level organization of the cell cycle, for regulation of the restriction point and G 1/S transition and for efforts to target Cdk2 therapeutically in human cancers.

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Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2Cyclin-Dependent KinasesCyclinsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalG1 PhaseGene TargetingHCT116 CellsHumansS PhaseCyclin-Dependent Kinase 2Cyclin-Dependent KinasesCyclins

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PMID22732498
PMCPMC3409006
OpenAlexW2084495041

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