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PAK4 is required for regulation of the cell-cycle regulatory protein p21, and for control of cell-cycle progression

✍ Scribed by Tanya Nekrasova; Dr. Audrey Minden

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
979 KB
Volume
112
Category
Article
ISSN
0730-2312

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Abstract

The serine/threonine kinase PAK4 regulates cytoskeletal architecture, and controls cell proliferation and survival. In most adult tissues PAK4 is expressed at low levels, but overexpression of PAK4 is associated with uncontrolled proliferation, inappropriate cell survival, and oncogenic transformation. Here we have studied for the first time, the role for PAK4 in the cell cycle. We found that PAK4 levels peak dramatically but transiently in the early part of G1 phase. Deletion of Pak4 was also associated with an increase in p21 levels, and PAK4 was required for normal p21 degradation. In serum‐starved cells, the absence of PAK4 led to a reduction in the amount of cells in G1, and an increase in the amount of cells in G2/M phase. We propose that the transient increase in PAK4 levels at early G1 reduces p21 levels, thereby abrogating the activity of CDK4/CDK6 kinases, and allowing cells to proceed with the cell cycle in a precisely coordinated way. J. Cell. Biochem. 112: 1795–1806, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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