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ArticleScientific reports2016

Optogenetic clustering of CNK1 reveals mechanistic insights in RAF and AKT signalling controlling cell fate decisions.

Adrian Fischer, Bettina Warscheid, Wilfried Weber, Gerald Radziwill

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adrian FischerDepartment of Biochemistry and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 18, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Bettina WarscheidDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Wilfried WeberDepartment of Biochemistry and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 18, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Gerald RadziwillDepartment of Biochemistry and Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 18, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scaffold proteins such as the multidomain protein CNK1 orchestrate the signalling network by integrating and controlling the underlying pathways. Using an optogenetic approach to stimulate CNK1 uncoupled from upstream effectors, we identified selective clusters of CNK1 that either stimulate RAF-MEK-ERK or AKT signalling depending on the light intensity applied. OptoCNK1 implemented in MCF7 cells induces differentiation at low light intensity stimulating ERK activity whereas stimulation of AKT signalling by higher light intensity promotes cell proliferation. CNK1 clustering in response to increasing EGF concentrations revealed that CNK1 binds to RAF correlating with ERK activation at low EGF dose. At higher EGF dose active AKT binds to CNK1 and phosphorylates and inhibits RAF. Knockdown of CNK1 protects CNK1 from this AKT/RAF crosstalk. In C2 skeletal muscle cells CNK1 expression is induced with the onset of differentiation. Hence, AKT-bound CNK1 counteracts ERK stimulation in differentiated but not in proliferating cells. Ectopically expressed CNK1 facilitates C2 cell differentiation and knockdown of CNK1 impaired the transcriptional network underlying C2 cell differentiation. Thus, CNK1 expression, CNK1 clustering and the thereto related differential signalling processes decide on proliferation and differentiation in a cell type- and cell stage-dependent manner by orchestrating AKT and RAF signalling.

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AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell LineCell ProliferationHEK293 CellsHeLa CellsHumansIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMCF-7 CellsMiceOptogeneticsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktProto-Oncogene Proteins c-rafRNA InterferenceSignal TransductionCNKSR1 protein, humanIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktProto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf

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PMID27901111
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