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Cell growth dilutes the cell cycle inhibitor Rb to trigger cell division

View ORCID ProfileEvgeny Zatulovskiy, Daniel F. Berenson, Benjamin R. Topacio, Jan M. Skotheim
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470013
Evgeny Zatulovskiy
Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305
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Daniel F. Berenson
Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305
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Benjamin R. Topacio
Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305
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Jan M. Skotheim
Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305
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Cell size is fundamental to function in different cell types across the human body because it sets the scale of organelle structures, biosynthesis, and surface transport 1,2. Tiny erythrocytes squeeze through capillaries to transport oxygen, while the million-fold larger oocyte divides without growth to form the ~100 cell pre-implantation embryo. Despite the vast size range across cell types, cells of a given type are typically uniform in size likely because cells are able to accurately couple cell growth to division 3–6. While some genes whose disruption in mammalian cells affects cell size have been identified, the molecular mechanisms through which cell growth drives cell division have remained elusive 7–12. Here, we show that cell growth acts to dilute the cell cycle inhibitor Rb to drive cell cycle progression from G1 to S phase in human cells. In contrast, other G1/S regulators remained at nearly constant concentration. RB is transcriptionally regulated so that Rb protein is synthesized mostly during S and G2 phases, and remains stable throughout the cell cycle. The amount of Rb synthesized and partitioned to daughter cells is independent of cell size, ensuring all cells at birth inherit a similar size-independent amount of Rb protein. RB overexpression increased cell size in tissue culture and a mouse cancer model, while RB deletion decreased cell size and removed the inverse correlation between cell size at birth and the duration of G1 phase. Thus, Rb-dilution by cell growth in G1 provides a cell autonomous molecular mechanism for cell size homeostasis.

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Cell growth dilutes the cell cycle inhibitor Rb to trigger cell division
Evgeny Zatulovskiy, Daniel F. Berenson, Benjamin R. Topacio, Jan M. Skotheim
bioRxiv 470013; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470013
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Cell growth dilutes the cell cycle inhibitor Rb to trigger cell division
Evgeny Zatulovskiy, Daniel F. Berenson, Benjamin R. Topacio, Jan M. Skotheim
bioRxiv 470013; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470013

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