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    Abstract:
    The Hippo-YAP/TAZ signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in growth control during development and regeneration and its dysregulation is widely implicated in various cancers. To further understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Hippo signaling regulation, we have found that activities of core Hippo signaling components, large tumor suppressor (LATS) kinases and YAP/TAZ transcription factors, oscillate during mitotic cell cycle. We further identified that the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) Cdh1 E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, which plays a key role governing eukaryotic cell cycle progression, intrinsically regulates Hippo signaling activities. CDH1 recognizes LATS kinases to promote their degradation and, hence, YAP/TAZ regulation by LATS phosphorylation is under cell cycle control. As a result, YAP/TAZ activities peak in G1 phase. Furthermore, we show in Drosophila eye and wing development that Cdh1 is required in vivo to regulate the LATS homolog Warts with a conserved mechanism. Cdh1 reduction increased Warts levels, which resulted in reduction of the eye and wing sizes in a Yorkie dependent manner. Therefore, LATS degradation by APC/C Cdh1 represents a previously unappreciated and evolutionarily conserved layer of Hippo signaling regulation.
    Keywords:
    Hippo signaling pathway
    CDH1
    E2F
    Anaphase-promoting complex
    Anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a multifunctional ubiquitin-protein ligase that targets various substrates for proteolysis inside and outside of cell cycle. The activation of APC/C is depended on two WD-40 domain proteins, Cdc20 and Cdh1. While APC/Cdc20 principally regulates mitotic progression, APC/Cdh1 shows a broad spectrum of substrates in and beyond cell cycle. In past several years, numerous biochemical and mouse genetic studies have greatly attracted our attention to the emerging role of APC/Cdh1 in genomic integrity, cellular differentiation and human diseases. This review will aim to summarize the recent expended understanding of APC/Cdh1 in regulating biological function and how its dysfunction may lead to diseases.
    CDC20
    Anaphase-promoting complex
    CDH1
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    Abstract The multi-subunit anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a master regulator of cell division. It controls progression through the cell cycle by timely marking mitotic cyclins and other cell cycle regulatory proteins for degradation. The APC/C itself is regulated by the sequential action of its coactivator subunits CDC20 and CDH1, post-translational modifications, and its inhibitory binding partners EMI1 and the mitotic checkpoint complex (MCC). In this study, we took advantage of the latest developments in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the structures of human APC/C CDH1:EMI1 and apo-APC/C at 2.9 Å and 3.2 Å resolution, respectively, providing novel insights into the regulation of APC/C activity. The high-resolution maps allowed the unambiguous assignment of a previously unassigned α-helix to the N-terminus of CDH1 (CDH1 α1 ) in the APC/C CDH1:EMI1 ternary complex. We also identified a novel zinc-binding module in APC2 that confers structural stability to APC2, and we confirmed the presence of zinc ions experimentally. Finally, due to the higher resolution and well defined density of these maps, we were able to build, aided by AlphaFold predictions, several intrinsically disordered regions in different APC/C subunits that likely play a role in proper APC/C assembly and regulation of its activity.
    CDC20
    CDH1
    Anaphase-promoting complex
    Citations (6)
    Proper cell-cycle transitions are driven by waves of ubiquitin-dependent degradation of key regulators by the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) and Skp1-Cullin1-F-box (SCF) E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes. But precisely how APC and SCF activities are coordinated to regulate cell-cycle progression remains largely unclear. We previously showed that APC/Cdh1 earmarks the SCF component Skp2 for degradation. Here, we continue to report that SCFβ-TRCP reciprocally controls APC/Cdh1 activity by governing Cdh1 ubiquitination and subsequent degradation. Furthermore, we define both cyclin A and Plk1, two well-known Cdh1 substrates, as upstream modifying enzymes that promote Cdh1 phosphorylation to trigger Cdh1 ubiquitination and subsequent degradation by SCFβ-TRCP. Thus, our work reveals a negative repression mechanism for SCF to control APC, thereby illustrating an elegant dual repression system between these two E3 ligase complexes to create the ordered cascade of APC and SCF activities governing timely cell-cycle transitions.
    CDH1
    Anaphase-promoting complex
    SKP2
    HEK 293 cells
    ABSTRACT The Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C) is a ubiquitin ligase that promotes the ubiquitination and subsequent degradation of numerous cell cycle regulators during mitosis and in G1. Proteins are recruited to the APC/C by activator proteins such as Cdh1. During the cell cycle, Cdh1 is subject to precise regulation so that substrates are not degraded prematurely. We have explored the regulation of Cdh1 during the developmental transition into meiosis and sporulation in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae . Transition to sporulation medium triggers the degradation of Cdh1. Degradation requires that cells be of the a/a mating type and be starved for glucose, but they do not actually need to enter into the meiotic program. Degradation requires an intact SNF1 protein kinase complex (orthologous to the mammalian AMPK nutritional sensor), which is activated by the absence of glucose. Cdh1 degradation is mediated by the APC/C itself in a ‘ trans ’ mechanism in which one molecule of Cdh1 recruits a second molecule of Cdh1 to the APC/C for ubiquitination. However, Cdh1-Cdh1 recognition does not depend on the degradation motifs or binding sites involved in the recognition of typical APC/C substrates. We hypothesize that Cdh1 degradation is necessary for the preservation of cell cycle regulators and chromosome cohesion proteins between the reductional and equational meiotic divisions, which occur without the intervening Gap or S phases found in mitotic cell cycles.
    CDH1
    Anaphase-promoting complex
    CDC20
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    ABSTRACT The transforming properties of the high risk human papillomavirus E7 oncoprotein are indispensable for driving the virus life cycle and pathogenesis. Besides inactivation of retinoblastoma (Rb) family of tumor suppressors as part of its oncogenic endeavors, E7-mediated perturbations of eminent cell cycle regulators, checkpoint proteins and proto-oncogenes are considered to be the tricks of its transformative traits. However, many such critical interactions are still unknown. In the present study, we have identified the anaphase promoting complex/ cyclosome (APC/C) co-activator, Cdh1, as a novel interacting partner and a degradation target of E7. We found that HPV16 E7-induced inactivation of Cdh1 promoted abnormal accumulation of multiple Cdh1 substrates. Such a mode of deregulation possibly contributes to HPV-mediated cervical oncogenesis. Our mapping studies recognized the carboxyl-terminal zinc finger motif of E7 to associate with Cdh1 and interfere with the timely degradation of FoxM1, a bona fide Cdh1 substrate and a potent oncogene. Importantly, the E7 mutant with impaired interaction with Cdh1 exhibited defects in its ability for overriding typical cell cycle transition and oncogenic transformation, thereby validating the functional and pathological significance of the E7-Cdh1 axis during cervical carcinoma progression. Altogether, the findings from our study discover a unique nexus between E7 and APC/C-Cdh1, thereby adding to our understanding of the mechanism of E7-induced carcinogenesis and provide a promising target for the management of cervical carcinoma.
    CDH1
    Anaphase-promoting complex
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    The anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C) orchestrates a meticulously controlled sequence of proteolytic events critical for proper cell cycle progression, the details of which have been most extensively elucidated during mitosis. It has become apparent, however, that the APC/C, particularly when acting in concert with its Cdh1 co-activator (APC/C(Cdh1)), executes a staggeringly diverse repertoire of functions that extend its remit well outside the bounds of mitosis. Findings over the past decade have not only earmarked mammalian oocyte maturation as one such case in point but have also begun to reveal a complex pattern of APC/C regulation that underpins many of the oocyte's unique developmental attributes. This review will encompass the latest findings pertinent to the APC/C, especially APC/C(Cdh1), in mammalian oocytes and how its activity and substrates shape the stop-start tempo of female mammalian first meiotic division and the challenging requirement for assembling spindles in the absence of centrosomes.
    CDH1
    Anaphase-promoting complex
    CDC20
    Citations (48)