PMID- 10652300 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20000302 LR - 20210209 IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 275 IP - 5 DP - 2000 Feb 4 TI - Degradation of cyclin A does not require its phosphorylation by CDC2 and cyclin-dependent kinase 2. PG - 3158-67 AB - Many cyclins are degraded by the ubiquitination/proteasome pathways involving the anaphase-promoting complex and SCF complexes. These degradations are frequently dependent on phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), providing a self-limiting mechanism for CDK activity. Here we present evidence from in vitro and in vivo assay systems that the degradation of human cyclin A can be inhibited by kinase-inactive mutants of CDK2 and CDC2. One obvious interpretation of these results is that like other cyclins, CDK-dependent phosphorylation of the cyclin A may be involved in cyclin A degradation. Our data indicated that CDK2 can phosphorylate cyclin A on Ser-154. Site-directed mutagenesis of Ser-154 abolished the phosphorylation by recombinant CDK2 in vitro and the majority of cyclin A phosphorylation in the cell. Activation of CDK2 and binding to SKP2 or p27(KIP1) were not affected by the phosphorylation of Ser-154. Surprising, in marked contrast to cyclin E, where phosphorylation of Thr-380 by CDK2 is required for proteolysis, degradation of cyclin A was not affected by Ser-154 phosphorylation. It is likely that the stabilization of cyclin A by the kinase-inactive CDKs was mainly due to a cell cycle effect. These data suggest an important difference between the regulation of cyclin A and cyclin E. FAU - Yam, C H AU - Yam CH AD - Department of Biochemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. FAU - Siu, W Y AU - Siu WY FAU - Lau, A AU - Lau A FAU - Poon, R Y AU - Poon RY LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Cyclin A) 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 (CDK2 protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.11.22 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2) RN - EC 2.7.11.22 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinases) SB - IM MH - CDC2 Protein Kinase/*metabolism MH - *CDC2-CDC28 Kinases MH - Cell Cycle MH - Cyclin A/*metabolism MH - Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 MH - Cyclin-Dependent Kinases/*metabolism MH - Enzyme Activation MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism EDAT- 2000/02/01 09:00 MHDA- 2000/03/04 09:00 CRDT- 2000/02/01 09:00 PHST- 2000/02/01 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2000/03/04 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2000/02/01 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1074/jbc.275.5.3158 [doi] AID - S0021-9258(18)30889-5 [pii] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2000 Feb 4;275(5):3158-67. doi: 10.1074/jbc.275.5.3158.