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Inhibition of cyclin D1 expression and phosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein by phosmidosine, a nucleotide antibiotic.

In this report, we studied the effect of phosmidosine, a proline-containing nucleotide on the serum-induced cell cycle progression in human lung fibroblast WI-38 cells. Phosmidosine suppressed S-phase entry and arrested cell cycle progression at the G1 phase. In serum-stimulated cells, phosmidosine did not affect the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade. However, phosmidosine inhibited hyperphosphorylation of retinoblastoma ( RB) protein by RB-kinases such as cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and cyclin-dependent kinase 2, probably as a result of the inhibition of cyclin D1 expression. Furthermore, in tsFT210 cells, a temperature-sensitive cdc2 mutant isolated from the mouse mammary carcinoma cell line FM3A, phosmidosine, irreversibly inhibited the cell cycle progression at G1 without affecting the G2 to M transition. Phosmidosine acts at an earlier point in G1 compared with mimosine or aphidicolin, well-known cell cycle blockers at the G1-S boundary. Taken together, phosmidosine arrested cells at a specific point between the start point and restriction point in G1 and is a useful drug that may contribute to the understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of G1 progression.[1]

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  1. Inhibition of cyclin D1 expression and phosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein by phosmidosine, a nucleotide antibiotic. Kakeya, H., Onose, R., Liu, P.C., Onozawa, C., Matsumura, F., Osada, H. Cancer Res. (1998) [Pubmed]
 
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