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Cyclin E phosphorylation regulates cell proliferation in hematopoietic and epithelial lineages in vivo

¹ Division of Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA; ² Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA; ³ Department of Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA; ⁴ Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA; ⁵ Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA; ⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA

Phosphorylations within N- and C-terminal degrons independently control the binding of cyclin E to the SCF^Fbw7 and thus its ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. We have now determined the physiologic significance of cyclin E degradation by this pathway. We describe the construction of a knockin mouse in which both degrons were mutated by threonine to alanine substitutions (cyclin E^{T74A T393A}) and report that ablation of both degrons abolished regulation of cyclin E by Fbw7. The cyclin E^{T74A T393A} mutation disrupted cyclin E periodicity and caused cyclin E to continuously accumulate as cells reentered the cell cycle from quiescence. In vivo, the cyclin E^{T74A T393A} mutation greatly increased cyclin E activity and caused proliferative anomalies. Cyclin E^{T74A T393A} mice exhibited abnormal erythropoiesis characterized by a large expansion of abnormally proliferating progenitors, impaired differentiation, dysplasia, and anemia. This syndrome recapitulates many features of early stage human refractory anemia/myelodysplastic syndrome, including ineffective erythropoiesis. Epithelial cells also proliferated abnormally in cyclin E knockin mice, and the cyclin E^{T74A T393A} mutation delayed mammary gland involution, implicating cyclin E degradation in this anti-mitogenic response. Hyperproliferative mammary epithelia contained increased apoptotic cells, suggesting that apoptosis contributes to tissue homeostasis in the setting of cyclin E deregulation. Overall these data show the critical role of both degrons in regulating cyclin E activity and reveal that complete loss of Fbw7-mediated cyclin E degradation causes spontaneous and cell type-specific proliferative anomalies.

[Keywords: Fbw7; cell cycle; cyclin E; phosphodegron]

Received January 11, 2008; revised version accepted April 22, 2008.

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⁷ These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Article is online at http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gad.1650208.

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