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Genetics, Vol. 155, 233-244, May 2000, Copyright © 2000

A Screen for Modifiers of Cyclin E Function in Drosophila melanogaster Identifies Cdk2 Mutations, Revealing the Insignificance of Putative Phosphorylation Sites in Cdk2

Mary Ellen Lanea, Marion Elenda, Doris Heidmanna, Anabel Herra, Sandra Marzodkoa, Alf Herziga, and Christian F. Lehnera
a Department of Genetics, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany

Corresponding author: Christian F. Lehner, Department of Genetics, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany. E-mail:chle@uni-bayreuth.de

Communicating editor: T. SCHÜPBACH

In higher eukaryotes, cyclin E is thought to control the progression from G1 into S phase of the cell cycle by associating as a regulatory subunit with cdk2. To identify genes interacting with cyclin E, we have screened in Drosophila melanogaster for mutations that act as dominant modifiers of an eye phenotype caused by a Sevenless-CycE transgene that directs ectopic Cyclin E expression in postmitotic cells of eye imaginal disc and causes a rough eye phenotype in adult flies. The majority of the EMS-induced mutations that we have identified fall into four complementation groups corresponding to the genes split ends, dacapo, dE2F1, and Cdk2(Cdc2c). The Cdk2 mutations in combination with mutant Cdk2 transgenes have allowed us to address the regulatory significance of potential phosphorylation sites in Cdk2 (Thr 18 and Tyr 19). The corresponding sites in the closely related Cdk1 (Thr 14 and Tyr 15) are of crucial importance for regulation of the G2/M transition by myt1 and wee1 kinases and cdc25 phosphatases. In contrast, our results demonstrate that the equivalent sites in Cdk2 play no essential role.





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