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ArticleCell2016

CDK Substrate Phosphorylation and Ordering the Cell Cycle.

Matthew P Swaffer, Andrew W Jones, Helen R Flynn, Ambrosius P Snijders, Paul Nurse

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Article in Cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 207 papers.

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207 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Matthew P SwafferCell Cycle Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK. Electronic address: matthew.swaffer@crick.ac.uk.
Andrew W JonesCell Cycle Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Protein Analysis and Proteomics Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.
Helen R FlynnProtein Analysis and Proteomics Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.
Ambrosius P SnijdersProtein Analysis and Proteomics Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.
Paul NurseCell Cycle Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Laboratory of Yeast Genetics and Cell Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 093917Wellcome Trust FC001121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

S phase and mitotic onset are brought about by the action of multiple different cyclin-CDK complexes. However, it has been suggested that changes in the total level of CDK kinase activity, rather than substrate specificity, drive the temporal ordering of S phase and mitosis. Here, we present a phosphoproteomics-based systems analysis of CDK substrates in fission yeast and demonstrate that the phosphorylation of different CDK substrates can be temporally ordered during the cell cycle by a single cyclin-CDK. This is achieved by rising CDK activity and the differential sensitivity of substrates to CDK activity over a wide dynamic range. This is combined with rapid phosphorylation turnover to generate clearly resolved substrate-specific activity thresholds, which in turn ensures the appropriate ordering of downstream cell-cycle events. Comparative analysis with wild-type cells expressing multiple cyclin-CDK complexes reveals how cyclin-substrate specificity works alongside activity thresholds to fine-tune the patterns of substrate phosphorylation.

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Cell CycleCyclin-Dependent KinasesCyclinsMitosisPhosphorylationSchizosaccharomycesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsCyclin-Dependent KinasesCyclinsSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsCDKcell cyclecyclin-dependent kinasekinasemitosisphosphoproteomicsphosphorylationS phase

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PMID27984725
PMCPMC5161751

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