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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2010, p. 116-130, Vol. 30, No. 1
0270-7306/10/$12.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01876-08
Copyright © 2010, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

A Bifunctional Regulatory Element in Human Somatic Wee1 Mediates Cyclin A/Cdk2 Binding and Crm1-Dependent Nuclear Export{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Changqing Li,1 Mark Andrake,2 Roland Dunbrack,2 and Greg H. Enders1*

Department of Medicine, Epigenetics and Progenitor Cell Keystone Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania,1 Program in Molecular and Translational Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania2

Received 10 December 2008/ Returned for modification 11 January 2009/ Accepted 10 October 2009

Sophisticated models for the regulation of mitotic entry are lacking for human cells. Inactivating human cyclin A/Cdk2 complexes through diverse approaches delays mitotic entry and promotes inhibitory phosphorylation of Cdk1 on tyrosine 15, a modification performed by Wee1. We show here that cyclin A/Cdk2 complexes physically associate with Wee1 in U2OS cells. Mutation of four conserved RXL cyclin A/Cdk binding motifs (RXL1 to RXL4) in Wee1 diminished stable binding. RXL1 resides within a large regulatory region of Wee1 that is predicted to be intrinsically disordered (residues 1 to 292). Near RXL1 is T239, a site of inhibitory Cdk phosphorylation in Xenopus Wee1 proteins. We found that T239 is phosphorylated in human Wee1 and that this phosphorylation was reduced in an RXL1 mutant. RXL1 and T239 mutants each mediated greater Cdk phosphorylation and G2/M inhibition than the wild type, suggesting that cyclin A/Cdk complexes inhibit human Wee1 through these sites. The RXL1 mutant uniquely also displayed increased nuclear localization. RXL1 is embedded within sequences homologous to Crm1-dependent nuclear export signals (NESs). Coimmunoprecipitation showed that Crm1 associated with Wee1. Moreover, treatment with the Crm1 inhibitor leptomycin B or independent mutation of the potential NES (NESm) abolished Wee1 nuclear export. Export was also reduced by Cdk inhibition or cyclin A RNA interference, suggesting that cyclin A/Cdk complexes contribute to Wee1 export. Somewhat surprisingly, NESm did not display increased G2/M inhibition. Thus, nuclear export of Wee1 is not essential for mitotic entry though an important functional role remains likely. These studies identify a novel bifunctional regulatory element in Wee1 that mediates cyclin A/Cdk2 association and nuclear export.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave., W225, Philadelphia, PA 19111. Phone: (215) 214-3956. Fax: (215) 728-4333. E-mail: Greg.Enders{at}fccc.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 26 October 2009.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2010, p. 116-130, Vol. 30, No. 1
0270-7306/10/$12.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01876-08
Copyright © 2010, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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