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Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2006, p. 4351-4361, Vol. 26, No. 11
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01743-05
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

E Proteins and Id2 Converge on p57Kip2 To Regulate Cell Cycle in Neural Cells

Gerson Rothschild,1 Xudong Zhao,1 Antonio Iavarone,1,2,3* and Anna Lasorella1,2,4

Institute for Cancer Genetics,1 Department of Pathology,2 Department of Neurology,3 Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York 100324

Received 5 September 2005/ Returned for modification 20 October 2005/ Accepted 5 March 2006

A precise balance between proliferation and differentiation must be maintained during neural development to obtain the correct proportion of differentiated cell types in the adult nervous system. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors known as E proteins and their natural inhibitors, the Id proteins, control the timing of differentiation and terminal exit from the cell cycle. Here we show that progression into S phase of human neuroblastoma cells is prevented by E proteins and promoted by Id2. Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKI) have been identified as key effectors of cell cycle arrest in differentiating cells. However, p57Kip2 is the only CKI that is absolutely required for normal development. Through the use of global gene expression analysis in neuroblastoma cells engineered to acutely express the E protein E47 and Id2, we find that p57Kip2 is a target of E47. Consistent with the role of Id proteins, Id2 prevents activation of p57Kip2 expression, and the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein, a known Id2 inhibitor, counters this activity. The strong E47-mediated inhibition of entry into S phase is entirely reversed in cells in which expression of p57Kip2 is silenced by RNA interference. During brain development, expression of p57Kip2 is opposite that of Id2. Our findings identify p57Kip2 as a functionally relevant target recruited by bHLH transcription factors to induce cell cycle arrest in developing neuroblasts and suggest that deregulated expression of Id proteins may be an epigenetic mechanism to silence expression of this CKI in neural tumors.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute for Cancer Genetics, 1150 St. Nicholas Ave., Columbia University, New York, NY 10032. Phone: (212) 851-5245. Fax: (212) 851-5267. E-mail: ai2102{at}columbia.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2006, p. 4351-4361, Vol. 26, No. 11
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01743-05
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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