title: The Arabidopsis Cks1At protein binds the cyclin-dependent kinases Cdc2aAt and Cdc2bAt.
abstract: In Arabidopsis, two cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK), Cdc2aAt and Cdc2bAt, have been described. Here, we have used the yeast two-hybrid system to identify Arabidopsis proteins interacting with Cdc2aAt. Three different clones were isolated, one of which encodes a Suc1/Cks1 homologue. The functionality of the Arabidopsis Suc1/Cks1 homologue, designed Cks1At, was demonstrated by its ability to rescue the temperature-sensitive cdc2-L7 strain of fission yeast at low and intermediate expression levels. In contrast, high cks1At expression levels inhibited cell division in both mutant and wild-type yeast strains. Cks1At binds both Cdc2aAt and Cdc2bAt in vivo and in vitro. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the fission yeast Suc1 binds Cdc2aAt but only weakly Cdc2bAt, whereas the human CksHs1 associated exclusively with Cdc2aAt.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Universiteit Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Veylder
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Segers
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Glab
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Casteels
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Montagu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Inzé
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016203:CDC2 Protein Kinase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017343:Genes, Plant; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000235:genetics; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000235:genetics; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; C081185:CKS1 protein, S cerevisiae; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D016203:CDC2 Protein Kinase