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. 2004 Jan 10;108(2):200-6.
doi: 10.1002/ijc.11521.

Rapamycin inhibits cdk4 activation, p 21(WAF1/CIP1) expression and G1-phase progression in transformed mouse fibroblasts

Anne-Marie Gaben  1 , Cecile Saucier, Monique Bedin, Véronique Barbu, Jan Mester
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Rapamycin inhibits cdk4 activation, p 21(WAF1/CIP1) expression and G1-phase progression in transformed mouse fibroblasts

Anne-Marie Gaben et al. Int J Cancer. .

Abstract

Rapamycin, a bacterial macrolide antibiotic, is a potent immunosuppressant agent that blocks cell proliferation by inhibiting the G1/S transition in several cell types. In sensitive cells, rapamycin inhibits the phosphorylation of p70 S6K and of Rb; however, the precise mechanisms involved have not been elucidated. In the mouse BP-A31 fibroblasts, synchronised in G0/G1 phase by serum starvation and induced to reinitiate the G1-phase progression, rapamycin inhibited the entry into S phase. The effect of rapamycin was situated in early G1 phase. The assembly of the cyclin D1/cdk4 complexes that phosphorylate Rb early in the G1 phase was not modified by the drug. Nevertheless, an inhibition of the activation of cyclin D1/cdk4 and cyclin E/cdk2 as well as of Rb phosphorylation accompanied the cell cycle arrest. Remarkably, rapamycin reduced the level of total p21(WAF1/CIP1) as well as that of p21(WAF1/CIP1) associated with the cyclin D1/cdk4 complexes. Besides its inhibitory activity toward cdk, p21(WAF1/CIP1) has been recently found to participate in the formation/stabilisation/nuclear translocation of cyclin D1/cdk4 complexes. We propose that the inhibition of the expression of p21(WAF1/CIP1) is a mechanism by which rapamycin inhibits the triggering of the cdk cascade in the BP-A31 cells.

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