Recycling the cell cycle: cyclins revisited - PubMed (original) (raw)

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. 2004 Jan 23;116(2):221-34.

doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(03)01080-8.

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Recycling the cell cycle: cyclins revisited

Andrew W Murray. Cell. 2004.

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I discuss advances in the cell cycle in the 21 years since cyclin was discovered. The surprising redundancy amongst the classical cyclins (A, B, and E) and cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdk1 and Cdk2) show that the important differences between these proteins are when and where they are expressed rather than the proteins they phosphorylate. Although the broad principles of the cell cycle oscillator are widely accepted, we are surprisingly ignorant of its detailed mechanism. This is especially true of the anaphase promoting complex (APC), the machine that triggers chromosome segregation and the exit of mitosis by targeting securin and mitotic cyclins for destruction. I discuss how a cyclin/Cdk-based engine could have evolved to assume control of the cell cycle from other, older protein kinases.

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