Cell cycle control in cancer

HK Matthews, C Bertoli, RAM de Bruin - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a group of diseases in which cells divide continuously and excessively. Cell
division is tightly regulated by multiple evolutionarily conserved cell cycle control …

Physiological functions and roles in cancer of the proliferation marker Ki-67

N Andrés-Sánchez, D Fisher… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
What do we know about Ki-67, apart from its usefulness as a cell proliferation biomarker in
histopathology? Discovered in 1983, the protein and its regulation of expression and …

Rapid adaptation to CDK2 inhibition exposes intrinsic cell-cycle plasticity

M Arora, J Moser, TE Hoffman, LP Watts, M Min… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CDK2 is a core cell-cycle kinase that phosphorylates many substrates to drive progression
through the cell cycle. CDK2 is hyperactivated in multiple cancers and is therefore an …

Loss of CDK4/6 activity in S/G2 phase leads to cell cycle reversal

JA Cornwell, A Crncec, MM Afifi, K Tang, R Amin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In mammalian cells, the decision to proliferate is thought to be irreversibly made at the
restriction point of the cell cycle,, when mitogen signalling engages a positive feedback loop …

Genetic instability from a single S phase after whole-genome duplication

S Gemble, R Wardenaar, K Keuper, N Srivastava… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Diploid and stable karyotypes are associated with health and fitness in animals. By contrast,
whole-genome duplications—doublings of the entire complement of chromosomes—are …

A cyclin-dependent kinase-mediated phosphorylation switch of disordered protein condensation

JM Valverde, G Dubra, M Phillips, A Haider… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell cycle transitions result from global changes in protein phosphorylation states triggered
by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). To understand how this complexity produces an …

Core control principles of the eukaryotic cell cycle

S Basu, J Greenwood, AW Jones, P Nurse - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) lie at the heart of eukaryotic cell cycle control, with
different cyclin–CDK complexes initiating DNA replication (S-CDKs) and mitosis (M-CDKs) …

PP2A-B55: substrates and regulators in the control of cellular functions

P Amin, S Awal, S Vigneron, S Roque, F Mechali… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
PP2A is a major serine/threonine phosphatase class involved in the regulation of cell
signaling through the removal of protein phosphorylation. This class of phosphatases is …

Positively charged specificity site in cyclin B1 is essential for mitotic fidelity

C Heinzle, A Höfler, J Yu, P Heid, N Kremer… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Phosphorylation of substrates by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) is the driving force of cell
cycle progression. Several CDK-activating cyclins are involved, yet how they contribute to …

Rapid and specific degradation of endogenous proteins in mouse models using auxin-inducible degrons

L Macdonald, GC Taylor, JM Brisbane, E Christodoulou… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Auxin-inducible degrons are a chemical genetic tool for targeted protein degradation and
are widely used to study protein function in cultured mammalian cells. Here, we develop …