SGD Paper 
Mazanka E and Weiss EL (2010) Sequential Counteracting Kinases Restrict an Asymmetric Gene Expression Program to early G1. Mol Biol Cell 21(16):2809-20
Abstract: Monitoring Editor: Charles Boone Gene expression is restricted to specific times in cell division and differentiation through close control of both activation and inactivation of transcription. In budding yeast, strict spatiotemporal regulation of the transcription factor Ace2 ensures that it acts only once in a cell's lifetime: at the M to G1 transition in newborn daughter cells. The Ndr/LATS family kinase Cbk1, functioning in a system similar to metazoan hippo signaling pathways, activates Ace2 and drives its accumulation in daughter cell nuclei (Mazanka et al., 2008), but the mechanism of this transcription factor's inactivation is unknown. We found that Ace2's nuclear localization is maintained by continuous Cbk1 activity, and that inhibition of the kinase leads to immediate loss of phosphorylation and export to the cytoplasm. Once exported, Ace2 cannot reenter nuclei for the remainder of the cell cycle. Two separate mechanisms enforce Ace2's cytoplasmic sequestration: phosphorylation of CDK consensus sites in Ace2 by the G1 CDKs Pho85 and Cdc28/CDK1, and a unknown mechanism mediated by Pho85 that is independent of its kinase activity. Overall, these findings show how sequential opposing kinases limit a daughter cell specific transcriptional program to a brief period during the cell cycle.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 20573982 |
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