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Mol Cell Biol, February 1998, p. 753-761, Vol. 18, No. 2
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 021421; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 021152; and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 021393
Received 5 June 1997/Returned for modification 9 July 1997/Accepted 31 October 1997
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The retinoblastoma protein (pRb) acts to constrain the G1-S transition in mammalian cells. Phosphorylation of pRb in G1 inactivates its growth-inhibitory function, allowing for cell cycle progression. Although several cyclins and associated cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) have been implicated in pRb phosphorylation, the precise mechanism by which pRb is phosphorylated in vivo remains unclear. By inhibiting selectively either cdk4/6 or cdk2, we show that endogenous D-type cyclins, acting with cdk4/6, are able to phosphorylate pRb only partially, a process that is likely to be completed by cyclin E-cdk2 complexes. Furthermore, cyclin E-cdk2 is unable to phosphorylate pRb in the absence of prior phosphorylation by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes. Complete phosphorylation of pRb, inactivation of E2F binding, and activation of E2F transcription occur only after sequential action of at least two distinct G1 cyclin kinase complexes.
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The retinoblastoma protein (pRb) is a nuclear phosphoprotein that regulates growth in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. pRb exerts its growth-inhibitory effects in part by binding to and inhibiting critical regulatory proteins, including members of the E2F family of transcription factors; E2F activation is necessary for the G1-S transition (12, 61). E2F selectively associates with hypophosphorylated pRb, and phosphorylation of pRb appears to release E2F from an inhibitory complex, enabling it to promote the transcription necessary for progression into late G1 and S phase (reviewed in references 32 and 59).
pRb is phosphorylated on a still imprecisely defined number of threonine and serine residues during G1 (6, 33, 62). A temporal sequence of modifications has been defined through use of both pRb variants in which certain of these residues have been replaced and monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for certain phosphorylated domains of pRb. Both serine 608 (S608) and S780 have been identified as among the sites that are initially phosphorylated (27, 63).
These phosphorylations have distinct effects on the ability of pRb to interact with its various partner proteins. Thus, pRb phosphorylated on S780 appears to lose its ability to bind to E2F (27). Phosphorylation of S807 and/or S811 is required to abolish pRb binding to c-Abl (28), while modification of threonine 821 (T821) and/or T826 is required to abolish pRb binding to LXCXE-containing proteins such as simian virus 40 large T antigen (28, 62). However, these four sites do not appear to be involved in regulating pRb binding to the E2F transcription factors.
Phosphorylation of pRb also has effects on cell physiology, ostensibly by changing its association with these and other interacting partner proteins. For example, phosphorylation of S795 is required to inactivate pRb-imposed growth suppression in a microinjection assay (6). However, the relationship between growth inhibition and E2F binding is complex: phosphorylation of pRb in vitro by cyclin D-, cyclin E-, or cyclin A-associated kinase has been reported to release E2F (6, 13), yet only action by cyclin D1-cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (cdk4) complexes, but not by cyclin E-cdk2 complexes, abrogates the growth-inhibitory property of pRb when microinjected into SaOS-2 cells (6).
Such observations raise questions concerning the identities of the cyclins and associated cdk responsible for these various phosphorylation events. D-type cyclins are induced in resting cells following growth factor stimulation (37) and are expressed throughout G1 in cycling cells. In many types of cells, cyclin E expression is induced in mid-late G1, at a time when pRb becomes extensively phosphorylated (11, 29, 35). Since cyclin A is not expressed until cells enter S phase and is degraded upon exit from mitosis (16, 29, 41, 46), it is unlikely that cyclin A functions to phosphorylate pRb in G1.
Complexes capable of phosphorylating pRb can be formed by D-type cyclins (cyclins D1, D2, and D3) with cdk4 or cdk6, by cyclin E with cdk2, or by cyclin A with either cdk2 or cdc2 (cdk1). Phosphorylation of pRb can be achieved in vitro by immunoprecipitated (IP) complexes of cyclin D-, cyclin E-, or cyclin A-associated kinases, isolated from either cell lysates or baculovirus-infected insect cells that are expressing these proteins ectopically (reviewed in references 53 and 59). Ectopic coexpression in human SaOS-2 osteosarcoma cells of pRb with either cyclin E or cyclin A will lead to pRb hyperphosphorylation, as will the coexpression of one of the D-type cyclins with cdk4 or cdk6; in all of these cases, the pRb-imposed G1 block will also be overridden (10, 14, 21, 23). The modifications of pRb effected by each of these complexes may be similar, as phosphopeptides of pRb phosphorylated in vivo by ectopically expressed cyclin D1-cdk4, cyclin E-cdk2, or cyclin A-cdk2 appear to be identical (23). Furthermore, enforced overexpression of either cyclin E or cyclin D1 in stably transfected cells will advance the cell cycle by shortening its G1 phase (25, 45, 48, 49).
These observations would seem to indicate that any of the aforementioned cyclin-cdk complexes can catalyze pRb phosphorylation. However, the identification of the kinase complexes responsible for pRb phosphorylation in vivo is complicated by other lines of evidence. While the above-specified cyclin-cdk complexes appear to drive pRb phosphorylation to similar extents when ectopically expressed in vivo (23), each may phosphorylate pRb on a different but overlapping set of residues in vitro (6, 62). In addition, when human pRb is ectopically expressed in yeast, it is fully phosphorylated only in the presence of both cyclin D1 and cyclin E (or their apparent yeast analogs) (19).
These conflicting results yield a variety of mechanistic models of pRb phosphorylation. According to one scheme, either cyclin D-cdk4/6 or cyclin E-cdk2 complexes are capable of fully phosphorylating and functionally inactivating pRb. Alternatively, as suggested by the work with yeast cells, each of these cyclin-cdk complexes may contribute partially to the phosphorylation of pRb, with full phosphorylation requiring the collaboration of both types of cyclin-cdk complexes. We provide evidence here supporting the latter mechanism. Moreover, our data suggest that the contribution of cyclin E-cdk2 complexes to pRb phosphorylation requires prior action by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes.
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Cell culture, plasmids, transfection, and luciferase assay.
SaOS-2 and U2-OS cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle
medium supplemented with 15% inactivated fetal calf serum. Expression
vectors for human p16INK4A (38),
cyclin D1, cyclin E (21), CD20, cdk2DN, cdk2, and cdk4 (58), and glutathione S-transferase (GST)-DP1
and E2F1-tub (13) have previously been described. U2-OS
cells were transfected by calcium phosphate precipitation as described
elsewhere (3). To assay for E2F-dependent transcription,
U2-OS cells were transfected with the indicated plasmids, a
-galactosidase-expressing plasmid, and either a wild-type (3×
E2F)-luciferase or mutant (3× mut E2F)-luciferase reporter plasmid,
harvested, and analyzed as described elsewhere (15).
Immunoblotting, immunoprecipitation, IP kinase, and phosphopeptide analysis. For immunoblot analysis of pRb, cell lysates were subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in 6% acrylamide, transferred to nitrocellulose (Schleicher & Schuell) or Hybond ECL nitrocellulose (Amersham), probed with anti-human pRb MAb G3-245 (Pharmingen) or anti-human pRb antibody C15 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), which recognizes the carboxy terminus of pRb, and developed with peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (Jackson Immunoresearch Lab) and enhanced chemiluminescence as recommended by the manufacturer (Amersham). pRb, cyclin E, and cdk6 were immunoprecipitated with MAbs 21C9 (60), HE111, and C15 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), respectively, using standard techniques (39). IP kinase assays were performed as described previously (39), with an equivalent amount of protein analyzed in each sample. Control experiments confirmed that immunoprecipitation from increasing amount of lysate resulted in a proportional increase in kinase activity, indicating that the assay was in the linear range. For phosphopeptide analysis, pRb was immunoprecipitated from sorted [32P]orthophosphate-labeled U2-OS cells, resolved by gel electrophoresis, and transferred to nitrocellulose filters, which were probed by anti-pRb MAb to confirm that the radioactive band comigrated with pRb. The band was excised from the filter, digested with trypsin, and subjected to electrophoresis and chromatography as described previously (42). All images were scanned with a LaCie Silverscanner III into Adobe Photoshop 4.0.
Flow cytometry, cell cycle analysis, and cell sorting. Cells were cotransfected with a CD20 expression plasmid and identified by immunostaining with anti-CD20 MAb B1 (gift of J. Gribben, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.) and fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated secondary antibody (Jackson Immunoresearch Lab). Cell cycle analysis was performed as described elsewhere (58). To obtain pure populations of transfected cells, the cells were sorted first by labeling with anti-CD20 MAb followed by ferromagnetic bead-conjugated secondary antibody (Miltenyi Biotec) and subjected to magnetic separation as recommended by the manufacturer. CD20-positive cells were then stained with FITC-conjugated secondary antibody, and cells that stained at least 10 times brighter than the mean of the negative (control) population were isolated by flow cytometry. The resultant population of sorted cells was over 95% pure. Multiple independent reproducible sorting experiments were performed to obtain sufficient cells for biochemical analysis.
In situ extraction of pRb and immunofluorescence analysis. Cells were grown on coverslips, transfected with the indicated expression plasmids, and immunostained with anti-CD20 MAb and then with FITC-conjugated anti-mouse secondary MAb to identify transfected cells. Where indicated, coverslips were subjected to low-salt detergent extraction as described elsewhere (43). The coverslips were then stained with rabbit polyclonal anti-pRb antibody (C15; Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and phycoerythrin- or Texas red-conjugated anti-rabbit secondary MAb (Jackson Immunoresearch Lab) and analyzed by fluorescence microscopy. Fifty CD20-expressing cells were counted in each experimental sample. As a control for the integrity of the nuclear membrane, coverslips from the same or parallel transfections were first stained with anti-CD20 followed by cy3-conjugated secondary antibody, subjected to low-salt detergent extraction, and then stained with anti-snRNP (ANA human reference serum 5; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.) followed by FITC-conjugated anti-human secondary antibody.
GST-DP1-E2F1 pulldown and phosphatase treatment.
Sepharose
4B-GST-DP1-E2F1 complexes were produced in bacteria as described
previously (13). To precipitate E2F-associated pRb, the
asynchronously growing or (where indicated) transfected, but not
sorted, cells were lysed in ELB with protease and phosphatase inhibitors [250 mM NaCl, 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.5)], 10 mM EDTA, 0.1% Nonidet P-40, aprotinin (10 µg/ml), leupeptin (10 µg/ml), 0.1 mM
phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride or 0.2 mM 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene sulfonyl fluoride (AEBSF), 50 mM NaF, 10 mM -glycerophosphate, sodium orthovanadate (10 µg/ml)] and cleared by centrifugation. One
milligram of lysate was diluted in 9 volumes of HEMGN buffer (25 mM
HEPES [pH 7.6], 0.1 mM EDTA, 12.5 mM MgCl2, 10%
glycerol, 0.1% Nonidet P-40) containing 100 mM KCl, 1 mM
dithiothreitol, 0.2 mM AEBSF, leupeptin (5 µg/ml) and aprotinin (10 µg/ml) (13) and incubated with Sepharose 4B-GST-DP1-E2F1
(or Sepharose 4B-GST alone as a control) for 1 h at 4°C. Beads
were washed four times in HEMGN buffer at 4°C, resuspended in 3×
Laemmli sample buffer, and subjected to SDS-PAGE and immunoblot
analysis. Following GST pulldown or immunoprecipitation with anti-pRb
MAb 21C9, the Sepharose 4B or protein G beads were (where indicated)
washed twice in lambda phosphatase buffer and subjected to phosphatase
treatment with 2,000 to 4,000 U of lambda phosphatase as recommended by
the manufacturer (New England Biolabs). Where indicated, freshly
prepared sodium orthovanadate (10 mM) was added prior to phosphatase
treatment.
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Selective inhibition of G1 cyclin-cdk complexes. To dissect the steps in pRb phosphorylation in G1, we wanted to be able to inhibit selectively either cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes or cyclin E-cdk2 complexes. The cdk inhibitor p16INK4A has previously been shown to inhibit cdk4/6 activity (52), and a dominant-negative form of cdk2, termed cdk2DN, has been shown to inhibit cdk2 activity (58). However, the specificity of these inhibitors has not been well characterized. To verify the efficacy and specificity of p16INK4A and cdk2DN, we introduced each separately into cells overexpressing various cyclins and cdks and monitored their effects on cyclin-cdk activity.
One measure of cyclin D- and cyclin E-associated kinase function can be derived from the observed ability of either kinase to overcome a pRb-imposed cell cycle arrest. In the pRb-deficient osteosarcoma cell line SaOS-2, ectopic expression of pRb causes cells to arrest in G1. Coexpression of either cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes or cyclin E-cdk2 complexes with pRb overcomes this pRb-imposed arrest (21). We first chose to examine the effects of the inhibitors p16INK4A and cdk2DN on this function of cyclin D- and cyclin E-associated kinase activity. Plasmids encoding pRb and cyclin D1 plus cdk4 or cyclin E were transfected into SaOS-2 cells with or without cointroduction of either p16INK4A or cdk2DN. (The levels of endogenous cdk2 in SaOS-2 cells are sufficient to form active complexes with ectopically expressed cyclin E; the lack of endogenous cdk4/6 activity necessitated the ectopic expression of cdk4 in these experiments.) Within each bulk population of cells, those that were successfully transfected were identified by staining cultures with an antibody specific for CD20, a cell surface marker expressed by a cotransfected plasmid. The cell cycle state of the transfected cells was analyzed by staining for DNA content with propidium iodide. As had been previously shown, transfection of SaOS-2 cells with a pRb expression plasmid led to a G1 arrest, and transfection of either cyclin D1 plus cdk4 or cyclin E neutralized the pRb-imposed G1 arrest (Fig. 1B). Cotransfection of p16INK4A reversed the effects of cyclin D1 plus cdk4 and restored the cell cycle arrest. However, p16INK4A did not affect the ability of cyclin E to neutralize the pRb-imposed cell cycle arrest, suggesting a specificity of p16INK4A for cyclin D1-cdk4 but not for cyclin E (Fig. 1A; compare lanes 5 and 9). Conversely, cotransfection of cdk2DN along with cyclin E abrogated the effect of cyclin E and restored the pRb-imposed cell cycle arrest. cdk2DN had no effect on the ability of cyclin D1 plus cdk4 to neutralize the pRb-imposed cell cycle arrest, suggesting a specificity of cdk2DN for inhibiting the actions of cyclin E-cdk2 but not cyclin D1-cdk4 (Fig. 1A; compare lanes 6 and 10).
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Phosphorylation of pRb by endogenous cyclin-cdk. Having found evidence for the selectivity of inhibitors of cyclin D-cdk4/6 and cyclin E-cdk2, we next wanted to dissect the role that each cyclin kinase plays in pRb phosphorylation. As shown above, ectopic overexpression of either cyclin D1 plus cdk4 or cyclin E will result in the phosphorylation of ectopically expressed pRb in SaOS-2 cells and in the attendant loss of pRb-imposed growth suppression. However, we suspected that the ectopic overexpression of cyclins, cdk, and pRb might result in a distortion of the normal substrate specificities of the active kinase complexes, thereby obscuring their usual physiologic contributions to pRb phosphorylation. We therefore sought to examine the functioning of the cyclins, cdks, and pRb expressed endogenously by a cell.
To do so, we studied the phosphorylation of the wild-type pRb expressed by cells of the human U2-OS osteosarcoma line. Importantly, the phosphorylation and functioning of pRb in these cells appears to be very similar to what is observed in primary cells: both cyclin D-associated and cyclin E-associated kinase activities are present in U2-OS cells, pRb undergoes a cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation, and inhibition of pRb phosphorylation results in a G1 cell cycle arrest. To assess the contributions of cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes and cyclin E-cdk2 complexes to pRb phosphorylation, we sought to inhibit each, as before, with either p16INK4A or cdk2DN. We first confirmed, as has been previously reported (22, 30), that the ectopic expression of each of these proteins also resulted in a pRb-imposed G1 arrest (data not shown). Thus, both of these inhibitory proteins are effective in U2-OS cells as they were in the previously manipulated SaOS-2 cells. Having established the efficacy of p16INK4A and cdk2DN in U2-OS cells, we next analyzed the state of phosphorylation of pRb in the presence of these inhibitors. We transfected a CD20 expression plasmid along with empty vector or expression plasmids for either p16INK4A or cdk2DN into U2-OS cells and isolated a purified population of CD20-expressing U2-OS cells by a two-step sorting process of magnetic bead selection and flow cytometry. We then analyzed the phosphorylation state of pRb by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting (Fig. 2A). Ectopic expression of p16INK4A prevented significant pRb phosphorylation, as evidenced by the presence of a single rapidly migrating band of pRb by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. Interestingly, expression of cdk2DN permitted partial phosphorylation of pRb, as indicated by the presence of pRb forms that migrated at a rate intermediate between that of the fastest-migrating unphosphorylated pRb and that of the slowest-migrating, fully phosphorylated forms of pRb seen in mock-transfected cells.
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Nuclear tethering of partially phosphorylated pRb. The results cited above suggested that the cyclin D- and cyclin E-associated kinase complexes collaborate to effect the complete phosphorylation of pRb and that this process occurs in a specific sequence, with cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes initiating this process and cyclin E-cdk2 complexes completing it. In addition, cdk2DN-transfected cells, in which pRb is partially phosphorylated by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes, are arrested in G1. However, we were unable to assess the degree of functional inactivation of partially phosphorylated pRb, as the inhibition of cdk2 activity in these cells might also effect other essential steps in late G1. We therefore undertook to evaluate pRb function by criteria other than its ability to halt G1 progression.
We first sought to understand the effect of partial phosphorylation on the association of pRb with certain nuclear structures. This association appears to reflect the ability of pRb to interact with other nuclear proteins, still unidentified, that may be important in growth regulation. In early G1, pRb is bound tightly to the nucleus and cannot be extracted by a detergent-containing low-salt buffer. As cells progress through G1, pRb is inactivated by phosphorylation, and this modification correlates with a decreased affinity for the nucleus such that it can be leached from the nucleus by a low-salt wash (43). To assay pRb nuclear affinity, U2-OS cells were grown on coverslips and transfected with an empty vector or with a plasmid expressing either p16INK4A or cdk2DN. First, transfected cells were identified by immunostaining for CD20 (expressed by a cotransfected plasmid). The cells were then subjected to in situ extraction with a detergent-containing low-salt buffer and fixed in methanol-acetone as described elsewhere (43). This low-salt wash disrupted the plasma membrane and lysed the cells, while the nuclei remained attached to the coverslips. However, sufficient plasma membrane remained after low-salt extraction to enable identification of the previously immunostained transfected cells. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis of these samples confirmed that cells transfected with a p16INK4A or cdk2DN expression plasmid were arrested in G1 (data not shown). In untransfected or mock-transfected cells, the majority of nuclei lost pRb immunoreactivity upon hypotonic wash, indicating that pRb is loosely tethered to the nuclei of these cells (Fig. 4). In p16INK4A-transfected cells, however, the majority of nuclei retained pRb immunoreactivity, while the nuclei of cdk2DN-transfected cells lost pRb immunoreactivity, following hypotonic wash, indicating that in these cells, which lack cyclin E-associated kinase activity, the actions of cyclin D-cdk4/6 kinase complexes alone serve to loosen the binding of pRb from nuclear structures. This effect was specific to pRb, as a second nuclear antigen (snRNP) remained detectable by immunofluorescence in each of the populations of transfected cells, both before and after hypotonic wash (data not shown). By this criterion, cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes were able to effect a functional alteration of pRb.
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Regulation of E2F by partially phosphorylated pRb. The above-described nuclear tethering experiment assesses the interaction of pRb with as yet unidentified nuclear protein(s). The physiologic roles of most of the proteins that interact with pRb remain unclear. Among the nuclear partners of pRb, however, are the E2F transcription factors, which have a clearly defined, highly significant function in G1; these factors operate to drive expression of a number of important genes in the late G1 and S phases. The E2F complexes that are associated with pRb are unable to activate the transcription of promoters bearing E2 sites; such transcription is achieved only when pRb undergoes inactivation and liberates E2F activity. For these reasons, we attempted to assess whether the partial phosphorylation of pRb by cyclin D-cdk4/6 affected its association with E2Fs.
To do so, we transfected U2-OS cells with a luciferase reporter construct under the transcriptional control of a synthetic wild-type (3× E2F) or mutant (3× mut) E2 promoter (31) along with an empty vector or plasmid encoding p16INK4A or cdk2DN. Luciferase activity was normalized to-galactosidase activity, expressed by a cotransfected plasmid, to provide an internal
control for transfection efficiency.
Cells transfected with the 3× E2F plasmid alone contained fivefold
higher luciferase activity than cells transfected with the 3× mut
construct (Fig. 5A). However, cells
cotransfected with p16INK4A or cdk2DN contained
basal levels of luciferase activity, whether transfected with 3× E2F
or 3× mut. Hence, as gauged by this reporter assay, the partial
phosphorylation of pRb achieved by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes did not
succeed in causing it to liberate E2F activity. These observations are
in agreement with previous analyses of E2F-dependent transcription in
p16INK4A-transfected or cdk2DN-transfected cells
(20, 22, 51).
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Attempts to identify the cyclin-cdk complexes responsible for the phosphorylation and functional inactivation of pRb have been frustrated by conflicting evidence generated by different types of experiments. Resolution of this issue is essential for understanding the control of cell cycle progression, as pRb phosphorylation appears to be critical for the advance of most cell types through the G1 phase into S phase. Some experiments have gauged the activities of G1 cyclin-cdk complexes through their incubation in vitro with pRb substrate (6, 26, 27, 33, 36, 56, 62). Yet others have studied the phosphorylation of pRb in cells in which high, superphysiologic levels of various cyclins and cdk has been achieved through introduction of different expression vectors (10, 14, 21, 23, 26) Each of these approaches would appear to be vulnerable to artifact. The specificity of G1 cyclin kinases for different substrates is relatively weak (27), and a recent study has shown that by increasing the amount of a cyclin-cdk above a certain threshold level, one can cause the phosphorylation of additional sites beyond those modified at lower levels of these complexes (6). With these observations in mind, we avoided the ectopic expression of active cyclins and cdks and instead attempted to inhibit the functions of endogenous cyclin-cdk complexes expressed at physiologic levels by the cell.
Our analysis of phosphopeptides of pRb from cells arrested by cdk2DN, in which cdk2 activity has been effectively blocked, indicates that D-type cyclin-directed phosphorylation in vivo is restricted to a subset of sites on pRb. Tryptic phosphopeptides obtained from pRb that has been phosphorylated both in vitro and in vivo have been extensively characterized (6, 7, 19, 23, 26, 33, 36, 42, 62). However, in the present experiments, the lack of precision in phosphopeptide analysis of manipulated, sorted cells makes it difficult to draw further conclusions from our data. For example, the population of cdk2DN-transfected cells may contain a small amount of contaminating untransfected cells, so that we cannot conclusively determine that all the pRb phosphopeptides from these cells represent phosphorylation by D-type cyclin kinases alone. More significantly, however, the relative absence of specific pRb phosphopeptides from cdk2DN-transfected cells indicates that these sites are less favored targets for phosphorylation by D-type cyclin-associated kinases in vivo and indeed unlikely to be modified at all by these cyclin-cdk complexes. We suspect but cannot prove directly that these particular sites are targeted specifically by cyclin E-cdk2 complexes following initial phosphorylation of pRb on other sites by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes.
The present experiments suggest that cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes alone were unable to inactivate pRb in vivo. We were not able to directly measure the growth-suppressive properties of pRb which has been modified by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes, since the concurrent inhibition of cdk2 activity might also affect other essential steps in G1. Instead, we analyzed other characteristics associated with active pRb. pRb mediates growth suppression in part by binding to and apparently sequestering a number of other cellular growth-promoting proteins. Prominent among these are members of the E2F family of transcription factors. Only hypophosphorylated pRb binds E2F, and pRb inactivated by deletion, mutation, or phosphorylation is incapable of binding to or repressing E2F (2, 13, 17, 18, 47, 57). As shown here, E2F-mediated transcription is repressed in cdk2DN-transfected cells, despite phosphorylation of pRb by D-type cyclin kinase. These results provided an indication that the partial modification of pRb effected by cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes does not succeed in causing release of E2Fs from the inhibitory effects of pRb.
While we suppose here that E2F activity is controlled by the state of phosphorylation of pRb, an alternative scenario might be suggested by recent work demonstrating that E2F activity can in certain circumstances be modulated directly by cyclin E-cdk2, independent of any involvement of pRb (9, 64). This mechanism, if operative, would force us to reinterpret the experiments here in which we analyzed E2F activity in cells expressing the cdk2DN plasmid which interferes directly with cdk2 activity. However, using the same cells that we have studied here, others have shown that the effects of the cdk2DN allele can be reversed by wild-type simian virus 40 large T antigen but not by a mutant thereof that is incapable of binding pRb (22). Such results strongly support the notion that the effects on E2F activity observed by us here derive from the functioning of pRb, which in the present case are regulated by its state of phosphorylation.
Further evidence supporting the notion that partial phosphorylation of pRb, obtained by blocking cdk2 activity, does not abrogate the binding of pRb to E2F comes from our analysis of both an osteosarcoma and a keratinocyte cell line. Specifically, the form of pRb that migrates at a rate intermediate between those of fully phosphorylated and unphosphorylated pRb retains its ability to bind E2Fs and is enriched in a population of cdk2DN-transfected cells.
In contrast to our observations, others have recently reported that pRb that is phosphorylated in vitro by cyclin D1-cdk4 complexes, cyclin E-cdk2 complexes, or cyclin A-cdk2 complexes can no longer bind E2F (6, 13). However, we would argue that the substrate specificities of protein kinases are often abrogated in vitro and, as mentioned above, that the excessive amounts of cyclin-cdk complexes can phosphorylate additional sites that are not modified by lower amounts of these complexes (6). This notion is borne out by our own earlier results showing that ectopic expression of cyclin E or cyclin D in the living cell can drive pRb phosphorylation to completion, which would not seem to reflect the normal activities of the endogenous proteins in cells.
As demonstrated some years ago, phosphorylated forms of pRb lose their binding affinity to nuclear structures, as manifested by the ability to leach them from the nuclei of detergent-permeabilized cells with low-salt buffers (43). As shown here, in cdk2DN-transfected cells, pRb undergoes partial phosphorylation by cyclin D-cdk4/6, retains its ability to bind and repress E2Fs, but loses its tight tethering to the nucleus. These data indicate that pRb undergoes a succession of functional alterations as the cell traverses G1; in this case, the loss of nuclear tethering of pRb precedes the loss of ability to bind E2F. Since E2F binding appears to be tightly connected with the growth-controlling functions of pRb, we believe that loss of nuclear binding is not equivalent, as previously assumed, to loss of the ability to inhibit cell proliferation (43).
Previous experiments have suggested that pRb phosphorylation occurs in a sequential manner in other types of cells. In particular, full phosphorylation of human pRb ectopically expressed in yeast requires both D-type and E cyclin kinase activity or the activity of analogous yeast cyclins. In this yeast expression system, the presence of cyclin D1 alone also leads to partial pRb phosphorylation (19). Further correlative evidence for sequential phosphorylation of pRb comes from analysis of phytohemagglutinin-stimulated T cells. In these cells, the initial forms of phosphorylated pRb appear at a point in time when only cyclin D-associated (and not cyclin E-associated) kinase can be detected, while the slowest-migrating fully phosphorylated form or pRb does not appear until after cyclin E is active (7, 39, 44). Together, these observations provide correlative evidence supporting the mechanistic model that has been tested here directly by the specific inhibition of the responsible cyclin-cdk complexes.
Although our observations further elucidate pRb phosphorylation in G1, several critical issues remain. While we can conclude that cyclin D-cdk4/6 complexes are able to phosphorylate pRb only partially in vivo, we lack direct evidence demonstrating that cyclin E-cdk2 completes this process. Cell physiologic evidence suggests that pRb undergoes functional inactivation at a time in the cell cycle when cyclin E-cdk2 becomes active in mid/late G1, a period when cyclin A-cdk2 complexes are not yet active (29). Nonetheless, other, still undefined kinases in addition to cyclin E-cdk2 may contribute to the complete phosphorylation of pRb that occurs in mid/late G1. Furthermore, during S phase, the activities of cyclin A-associated complexes may extend the work of the cyclin D- and cyclin E-associated complexes that is initiated in G1.
A second issue is provoked by the observation that cyclin E-cdk2 appears unable to phosphorylate pRb that has not been previously modified by the actions of cyclin D-cdk4/6. The molecular mechanism by which this occurs is unclear. We do not believe that this is merely an artifact of p16INK4A expression, as others have also recently observed that cyclin E kinase is unable to phosphorylate pRb in the absence of cyclin D kinase activity (34). Cyclin E kinase complexes may not be able to recognize or gain access to native unphosphorylated pRb that is bound to certain tethering sites in the nucleus; our work indicates that cyclin D-cdk4/6-mediated phosphorylation releases pRb from these tethers. Alternatively, cyclin D-cdk4/6-mediated phosphorylation may evoke a conformational change in pRb that makes it into a better substrate for cyclin E-cdk2. Such a model of progressive phosphorylation of a protein by distinct kinases is not without precedent. For example, the phosphorylation of glycogen synthase kinase on certain sites by glycogen synthase kinase 3 requires its prior phosphorylation on other sites by casein kinase II (50).
A third issue is suggested by the observation that the entire pool of cellular pRb appears to be held in a functionally inactive state after the cell has passed the restriction point in late G1. This would seem to require that pRb molecules that are synthesized de novo in S and G2 phases undergo phosphorylation shortly after their synthesis at a time when cyclin E is no longer active. More importantly, this phosphorylation would appear to occur during periods in S, G2, and M phase when D-type cyclins may no longer be active. For example, cells in S phase that are then deprived of serum mitogens will continue their cell cycle advance and apparently continue to successfully phosphorylate pRb in the presence of only cyclin A-cdc2 complexes. We speculate therefore that B-like cyclin-cdk complexes (i.e., involving cyclin A or B) may be able to completely phosphorylate pRb even in the absence of preparatory phosphorylation by D-type cyclin-associated cdk and may thus, with respect to pRb, be more wide-ranging in their substrate specificities than are the cyclin D- and cyclin E-associated kinase complexes.
Finally, the purpose of sequential, cooperative phosphorylation is unclear. It may facilitate an additional dimension of control on pRb inactivation. Alternatively, it may create a gradation of gene activations in which certain transcription factors are liberated by the actions of cyclin D-cdk4/6 on pRb while yet others, such as E2Fs, are released only following the actions of cyclin E-cdk2. It may also provide the cell cycle apparatus with additional specificity in regulating alternative cell fates such as proliferation and differentiation.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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We thank members of the Weinberg lab, MIT Center for Cancer Research, B. Dynlacht, S. Mittnacht, G. Paradis, and P. Utz for advice and assistance, J. Gribben, B. Dynlacht, S. van den Heuvel, W. Krek, and H. Huber for reagents, and M. Meyerson and R. Beijersbergen for critical reading of the manuscript.
R.A.W. is an American Cancer Society Professor of Biology. A.S.L. is a Margaret and Herman Sokol postdoctoral fellow and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician postdoctoral fellow. This work was supported by NIH grant K11-CA69242.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142. Phone: (617) 258-5176. Fax: (617) 258-5213. E-mail: Lundberg@wi.mit.edu.
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(3× mut; 
) E2 promoter-luciferase reporter construct were analyzed
for luciferase activity. The mean and standard error of the mean from
three independent experiments are shown. (B) Identification of
E2F-associated pRb by immunoblot analysis of pRb from lysates prepared
from asynchronously growing (lanes 1 and 3) or cdk2DN-transfected but
not sorted (lanes 2 and 4) U2-OS cells before (lanes 1 and 2) or after
precipitation with Sepharose 4B-GST-DP1-E2F1 (lanes 3 and 4) or
Sepharose 4B-GST alone (lanes 6 and 7) or prepared from
cdk2DN-transfected sorted U2-OS cells (lane 5).
pRb). (Left) Immunoblot of
pRb from lysates prepared from asynchronously growing U2-OS cells (lane
1) or after precipitation with Sepharose 4B-GST-DP1-E2F1 before (lane
4) or after (lane 3) treatment with phosphatase (PPase). (Right)
Immunoblot of pRb after precipitation with Sepharose 4B-GST-DP1-E2F1
and subsequent phosphatase treatment (lane 5), pRb isolated from
p16-transfected, sorted cells (lane 6), and pRb immunoprecipitated from
lysates of asynchronously growing U2-OS cells before (lane 9) or after
treatment with phosphatase in the absence (lane 8) or presence (lane 7)
of sodium orthovanadate (Na3VO4).