title: Functional interactions of the retinoblastoma protein with mammalian D-type cyclins.
abstract: The retinoblastoma gene product (Rb) can interact efficiently with two of three D-type G1 cyclins (D2 and D3) in vitro. Binding depended upon the minimal regions of Rb necessary for its growth-suppressive activity, as well as upon the D-type cyclin sequence motif shared with Rb-binding DNA tumor virus oncoproteins. Coexpression of the three D-type cyclins with the cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk4) in insect cells generated Rb kinase activity. By contrast, cyclins D2 and D3, but not D1, activated another such kinase, cdk2. Introduction of cyclin D2 and Rb into the Rb-deficient cell line SAOS-2 led to overt Rb hyperphosphorylation, whereas Rb, expressed alone or together with cyclin D1, remained unphosphorylated. Cyclin D2-dependent phosphorylation inhibited its binding to the transcription factor E2F and reversed the Rb G1 exit block in the cell cycle. Thus, all D-type cyclins do not function equivalently, and one of them plays a major role in reversing the cycle-blocking function of a known tumor suppressor.
authors.affiliation: Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ewen
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Sluss
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Sherr
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsushime
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Livingston
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D019938:Cyclin D1; D056742:Cyclin D2; D056743:Cyclin D3; D016213:Cyclins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016161:Genes, Retinoblastoma; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009036:Moths; D015513:Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012516:Osteosarcoma; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D016160:Retinoblastoma Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: C080336:CCND2 protein, human; C534696:CCND3 protein, human; D056742:Cyclin D2; D056743:Cyclin D3; D016213:Cyclins; D015513:Oncogene Proteins; D016160:Retinoblastoma Protein; D019938:Cyclin D1; D011494:Protein Kinases