PMID- 10082583 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990420 LR - 20190508 IS - 0270-7306 (Print) IS - 0270-7306 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 4 DP - 1999 Apr TI - cdk1- and cdk2-mediated phosphorylation of MyoD Ser200 in growing C2 myoblasts: role in modulating MyoD half-life and myogenic activity. PG - 3167-76 AB - We have examined the role of protein phosphorylation in the modulation of the key muscle-specific transcription factor MyoD. We show that MyoD is highly phosphorylated in growing myoblasts and undergoes substantial dephosphorylation during differentiation. MyoD can be efficiently phosphorylated in vitro by either purified cdk1-cyclin B or cdk1 and cdk2 immunoprecipitated from proliferative myoblasts. Comparative two-dimensional tryptic phosphopeptide mapping combined with site-directed mutagenesis revealed that cdk1 and cdk2 phosphorylate MyoD on serine 200 in proliferative myoblasts. In addition, when the seven proline-directed sites in MyoD were individually mutated, only substitution of serine 200 to a nonphosphorylatable alanine (MyoD-Ala200) abolished the slower-migrating hyperphosphorylated form of MyoD, seen either in vitro after phosphorylation by cdk1-cyclin B or in vivo following overexpression in 10T1/2 cells. The MyoD-Ala200 mutant displayed activity threefold higher than that of wild-type MyoD in transactivation of an E-box-dependent reporter gene and promoted markedly enhanced myogenic conversion and fusion of 10T1/2 fibroblasts into muscle cells. In addition, the half-life of MyoD-Ala200 protein was longer than that of wild-type MyoD, substantiating a role of Ser200 phosphorylation in regulating MyoD turnover in proliferative myoblasts. Taken together, our data show that direct phosphorylation of MyoD Ser200 by cdk1 and cdk2 plays an integral role in compromising MyoD activity during myoblast proliferation. FAU - Kitzmann, M AU - Kitzmann M AD - Institut de Genetique Humaine, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, UPR 1142, 34396 Montpellier cedex 5, France. FAU - Vandromme, M AU - Vandromme M FAU - Schaeffer, V AU - Schaeffer V FAU - Carnac, G AU - Carnac G FAU - Labbe, J C AU - Labbe JC FAU - Lamb, N AU - Lamb N FAU - Fernandez, A AU - Fernandez A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Mol Cell Biol JT - Molecular and cellular biology JID - 8109087 RN - 0 (MyoD Protein) RN - 452VLY9402 (Serine) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.22 (CDC2 Protein Kinase) RN - EC 2.7.11.22 (CDC2-CDC28 Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.22 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2) RN - EC 2.7.11.22 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinases) RN - OF5P57N2ZX (Alanine) SB - IM MH - Alanine/genetics/metabolism MH - CDC2 Protein Kinase/*metabolism MH - *CDC2-CDC28 Kinases MH - Cell Differentiation MH - Cell Division MH - Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 MH - Cyclin-Dependent Kinases/*metabolism MH - Half-Life MH - Muscle, Skeletal/*cytology/metabolism MH - MyoD Protein/*metabolism MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism MH - Serine/metabolism MH - Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism MH - Transcriptional Activation PMC - PMC84110 EDAT- 1999/03/19 00:00 MHDA- 1999/03/19 00:01 CRDT- 1999/03/19 00:00 PHST- 1999/03/19 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/03/19 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/03/19 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1128/mcb.19.4.3167 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Cell Biol. 1999 Apr;19(4):3167-76. doi: 10.1128/mcb.19.4.3167.