Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1995
Journal / Book Title
Molecular and Cell Biology
Abstract
Cyclin A is a pivotal regulatory protein which, in mammalian cells, is involved in the S phase of the cell cycle. Transcription of the human cyclin A gene is cell cycle regulated. We have investigated the role of the cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent signalling pathway in this cell cycle-dependent control. In human diploid fibroblasts (Hs 27), induction of cyclin A gene expression at G1/S is stimulated by 8-bromo-cAMP and suppressed by the protein kinase A inhibitor H89, which was found to delay S phase entry. Transfection experiments showed that the cyclin A promoter is inducible by activation of the adenylyl cyclase signalling pathway. Stimulation is mediated predominantly via a cAMP response element (CRE) located at positions -80 to - 73 with respect to the transcription initiation site and is able to bind CRE- binding proteins and CRE modulators. Moreover, activation by phosphorylation of the activators CRE-binding proteins and CRE modulator τ and levels of the inducible cAMP early repressor are cell cycle regulated, which is consistent with the pattern of cyclin A inducibility by cAMP during the cell cycle. These results suggest that the CRE is, at least partly, implicated in stimulation of cyclin A transcription at G1/S.
DOI
10.1128/MCB.15.6.3301
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Desdouets, C.; Matesic, G.; Molina, Carlos; Foulkes, N. S.; Sassone-Corsi, P.; Brechot, C.; and Sobczak-Thepot, J., "Cell Cycle Regulation of Cyclin a Gene Expression By the Cyclic AMP- Responsive Transcription Factors CREB and CREM" (1995). Department of Biology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 107.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/biology-facpubs/107
