Mitotic cell-cycle progression is regulated by CPEB1 and CPEB4-dependent translational control
- 4 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 12 (5), 447-456
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb2046
Abstract
Cytoplasmic polyadenylation-driven translational control is known to regulate the expression of stored maternal mRNA in meiosis and early embryonic divisions. CPEB proteins mediate cell cycle phase-specific changes in polyadenylation that are also required for cell proliferation and mitotic entry in other actively dividing cells. Meiotic and early-embryonic cell divisions in vertebrates take place in the absence of transcription and rely on the translational regulation of stored maternal messenger RNAs. Most of these mRNAs are regulated by the cytoplasmic-polyadenylation-element-binding protein (CPEB), which mediates translational activation and repression through cytoplasmic changes in their poly(A) tail length. It was unknown whether translational regulation by cytoplasmic polyadenylation and CPEB can also regulate mRNAs at specific points of mitotic cell-cycle divisions. Here we show that CPEB-mediated post-transcriptional regulation by phase-specific changes in poly(A) tail length is required for cell proliferation and specifically for entry into M phase in mitotically dividing cells. This translational control is mediated by two members of the CPEB family of proteins, CPEB1 and CPEB4. We conclude that regulation of poly(A) tail length is not only required to compensate for the lack of transcription in specialized cell divisions but also acts as a general mechanism to control mitosis.Keywords
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