DNA replication factor CDT1

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DNA replication factor Cdt1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CDT1 gene.

The protein encoded by this gene is a key licensing factor which, along with the protein Cdc6, functions to license DNA by forming the pre-replication complex (pre-RC). Its activity during the cell cycle is tightly regulated by its association with the protein geminin, which both inhibits Cdt1 activity during S phase in order to prevent re-replication of DNA and prevents it from ubiquitination and subsequent proteolysis.

Orthologs

CDT1 belongs to a family of replication proteins conserved from yeast to humans. Examples of orthologs in other species include:

• S. pombe – cdt1 (cdc10-dependent transcript 1)
• Drosophila melanogaster – 'double parked' or Dup
• Xenopus laevis - Cdt1

Interactions

DNA replication factor CDT1 has been shown to interact with SKP2. Cdt1 is recruited by the origin recognition complex in origin licensing. Null-mutations for Cdt1 are lethal in yeast; the spores undergo mitosis without DNA replication. The overexpression of Cdt1 causes rereplication in H. sapiens, which activates the Chk1 pathway, preventing entry into mitosis.

Further reading

• Xouri G, Dimaki M, Bastiaens PI, Lygerou Z (2007). "Cdt1 interactions in the licensing process: a model for dynamic spatiotemporal control of licensing". Cell Cycle. 6 (13): 1549–52. doi:10.4161/cc.6.13.4455. PMID 17598984.
• Andersson B, Wentland MA, Ricafrente JY, et al. (1996). "A "double adaptor" method for improved shotgun library construction". Anal. Biochem. 236 (1): 107–13. doi:10.1006/abio.1996.0138. PMID 8619474.
• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, et al. (1997). "Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing". Genome Res. 7 (4): 353–8. doi:10.1101/gr.7.4.353. PMC 139146. PMID 9110174.
• Nishitani H, Lygerou Z, Nishimoto T, Nurse P (2000). "The Cdt1 protein is required to license DNA for replication in fission yeast". Nature. 404 (6778): 625–8. doi:10.1038/35007110. PMID 10766248.
• Whittaker AJ, Royzman I, Orr-Weaver TL (2000). "Drosophila double parked: a conserved, essential replication protein that colocalizes with the origin recognition complex and links DNA replication with mitosis and the down-regulation of S phase transcripts". Genes Dev. 14 (14): 1765–76. PMC 316778. PMID 10898791.
• Wohlschlegel JA, Dwyer BT, Dhar SK, et al. (2001). "Inhibition of eukaryotic DNA replication by geminin binding to Cdt1". Science. 290 (5500): 2309–12. doi:10.1126/science.290.5500.2309. PMID 11125146.
• Yanagi K, Mizuno T, You Z, Hanaoka F (2002). "Mouse geminin inhibits not only Cdt1-MCM6 interactions but also a novel intrinsic Cdt1 DNA binding activity". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (43): 40871–80. doi:10.1074/jbc.M206202200. PMID 12192004.
• Bermejo R, Vilaboa N, Calés C (2003). "Regulation of CDC6, geminin, and CDT1 in human cells that undergo polyploidization". Mol. Biol. Cell. 13 (11): 3989–4000. doi:10.1091/mbc.E02-04-0217. PMC 133609. PMID 12429841.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Li X, Zhao Q, Liao R, et al. (2003). "The SCF(Skp2) ubiquitin ligase complex interacts with the human replication licensing factor Cdt1 and regulates Cdt1 degradation". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (33): 30854–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.C300251200. PMID 12840033.
• Cook JG, Chasse DA, Nevins JR (2004). "The regulated association of Cdt1 with minichromosome maintenance proteins and Cdc6 in mammalian cells". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (10): 9625–33. doi:10.1074/jbc.M311933200. PMID 14672932.
• Sugimoto N, Tatsumi Y, Tsurumi T, et al. (2004). "Cdt1 phosphorylation by cyclin A-dependent kinases negatively regulates its function without affecting geminin binding". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (19): 19691–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M313175200. PMID 14993212.
• Liu E, Li X, Yan F, et al. (2004). "Cyclin-dependent kinases phosphorylate human Cdt1 and induce its degradation". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (17): 17283–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.C300549200. PMID 15004027.
• Ramachandran N, Hainsworth E, Bhullar B, et al. (2004). "Self-assembling protein microarrays". Science. 305 (5680): 86–90. doi:10.1126/science.1097639. PMID 15232106.
• Ballabeni A, Melixetian M, Zamponi R, et al. (2005). "Human geminin promotes pre-RC formation and DNA replication by stabilizing CDT1 in mitosis". EMBO J. 23 (15): 3122–32. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600314. PMC 514931. PMID 15257290.
• Saxena S, Yuan P, Dhar SK, et al. (2004). "A dimerized coiled-coil domain and an adjoining part of geminin interact with two sites on Cdt1 for replication inhibition". Mol. Cell. 15 (2): 245–58. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.06.045. PMID 15260975.
• Kulartz M, Knippers R (2004). "The replicative regulator protein geminin on chromatin in the HeLa cell cycle". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (40): 41686–94. doi:10.1074/jbc.M405798200. PMID 15284237.
• Beausoleil SA, Jedrychowski M, Schwartz D, et al. (2004). "Large-scale characterization of HeLa cell nuclear phosphoproteins". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (33): 12130–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404720101. PMC 514446. PMID 15302935.