Abstract

The eukaryotic cell cycle involves a highly orchestrated series of events in which the cellular genome is replicated during a synthesis (S) phase and each of the two resulting copies are segregated properly during mitosis (M). Host cell factor-1 (HCF-1) is a transcriptional co-regulator that is essential for and has been implicated in basic cellular processes, such as transcriptional regulation and cell cycle progression. Although a series of HCF-1 transcriptional targets have been identified, few functional clues have been provided, especially for chromosome segregation. Our results showed that HCF-1 activated CDC42 expression by binding to the −881 to −575 region upstream of the CDC42 transcription start site, and the regulation of CDC42 expression by HCF-1 was correlated with cell cycle progression. The overexpression of a spontaneously cycling and constitutively active CDC42 mutant (CDC42F28L) rescued G1 phase delay and multinucleate defects in mitosis upon the loss of HCF-1. Therefore, these results establish that HCF-1 ensures proper cell cycle progression by regulating the expression of CDC42, which indicates a possible mechanism of cell cycle coordination and the regulation mode of typical Rho GTPases.

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Title
HCF-1 promotes cell cycle progression by regulating the expression of CDC42
Author
Pan, Xiang 1 ; Li, Fei 1 ; Ma, Zhihua 1 ; Yue Jiping 1 ; Lu Cailing 1 ; You Yuangang 1 ; Hou, Lin 1 ; Yin Bin 1 ; Boqin, Qiang 1 ; Shu Pengcheng 1 ; Peng Xiaozhong 2 

 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Medical Primate Research Center, Neuroscience Center, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.506261.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 0706 7839) 
 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Medical Primate Research Center, Neuroscience Center, Beijing, China (GRID:grid.506261.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 0706 7839); Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Institute of Medical Biology, Kunming, China (GRID:grid.506261.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 0706 7839) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Oct 2020
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
20414889
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2471520340
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.