| First Author | Castagnino P | Year | 2013 |
| Journal | PLoS One | Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 | Pages | e56140 |
| PubMed ID | 23409140 | Mgi Jnum | J:199418 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:5502522 | Doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0056140 |
| Citation | Castagnino P, et al. (2013) miR-221/222 compensates for Skp2-mediated p27 degradation and is a primary target of cell cycle regulation by prostacyclin and cAMP. PLoS One 8(2):e56140 |
| abstractText | p27(kip1) (p27) is a cdk-inhibitory protein with an important role in the proliferation of many cell types. SCF(Skp2) is the best studied regulator of p27 levels, but Skp2-mediated p27 degradation is not essential in vivo or in vitro. The molecular pathway that compensates for loss of Skp2-mediated p27 degradation has remained elusive. Here, we combine vascular injury in the mouse with genome-wide profiling to search for regulators of p27 during cell cycling in vivo. This approach, confirmed by RT-qPCR and mechanistic analysis in primary cells, identified miR-221/222 as a compensatory regulator of p27. The expression of miR221/222 is sensitive to proteasome inhibition with MG132 suggesting a link between p27 regulation by miRs and the proteasome. We then examined the roles of miR-221/222 and Skp2 in cell cycle inhibition by prostacyclin (PGI(2)), a potent cell cycle inhibitor acting through p27. PGI(2) inhibited both Skp2 and miR221/222 expression, but epistasis, ectopic expression, and time course experiments showed that miR-221/222, rather than Skp2, was the primary target of PGI(2). PGI(2) activates Gs to increase cAMP, and increasing intracellular cAMP phenocopies the effect of PGI(2) on p27, miR-221/222, and mitogenesis. We conclude that miR-221/222 compensates for loss of Skp2-mediated p27 degradation during cell cycling, contributes to proteasome-dependent G1 phase regulation of p27, and accounts for the anti-mitogenic effect of cAMP during growth inhibition. |
