Cyclin-dependent kinase control of motile ciliogenesis

  1. Eszter K Vladar  Is a corresponding author
  2. Miranda B Stratton
  3. Maxwell L Saal
  4. Glicella Salazar-De Simone
  5. Xiangyuan Wang
  6. Debra Wolgemuth
  7. Tim Stearns
  8. Jeffrey D Axelrod
  1. University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
  2. Stanford University, United States
  3. Columbia University Medical Center, United States
  4. Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Abstract

Cycling cells maintain centriole number at precisely two per cell in part by limiting their duplication to S phase under the control of the cell cycle machinery. In contrast, postmitotic multiciliated cells (MCCs) uncouple centriole assembly from cell cycle progression and produce hundreds of centrioles in the absence of DNA replication to serve as basal bodies for motile cilia. Although some cell cycle regulators have previously been implicated in motile ciliogenesis, how the cell cycle machinery is employed to amplify centrioles is unclear. We use transgenic mice and primary airway epithelial cell culture to show that Cdk2, the kinase responsible for the G1 to S phase transition, is also required in MCCs to initiate motile ciliogenesis. While Cdk2 is coupled with Cyclins E and A2 during cell division, Cyclin A1 is required during ciliogenesis, contributing to an alternative regulatory landscape that facilitates centriole amplification without DNA replication.

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  1. Eszter K Vladar

    Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, United States
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  2. Miranda B Stratton

    Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  3. Maxwell L Saal

    Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, United States
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  4. Glicella Salazar-De Simone

    Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  5. Xiangyuan Wang

    Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  6. Debra Wolgemuth

    Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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  7. Tim Stearns

    Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  8. Jeffrey D Axelrod

    Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (R01GM052022)

  • Tim Stearns

National Institutes of Health (R01GM121424)

  • Tim Stearns

National Institutes of Health (R01GM098582)

  • Jeffrey D Axelrod

National Institutes of Health (1R01HD034915)

  • Debra Wolgemuth

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All procedures involving animals were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Stanford University School of Medicine (#17926) in accordance with established guidelines for animal care.

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© 2018, Vladar et al.

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  1. Eszter K Vladar
  2. Miranda B Stratton
  3. Maxwell L Saal
  4. Glicella Salazar-De Simone
  5. Xiangyuan Wang
  6. Debra Wolgemuth
  7. Tim Stearns
  8. Jeffrey D Axelrod
(2018)
Cyclin-dependent kinase control of motile ciliogenesis
eLife 7:e36375.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36375

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