Cyclin D-CDK4 Disulfide Bond Attenuates Pulmonary Vascular Cell Proliferation

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a chronic vascular disease characterized, among other abnormalities, by hyperproliferative smooth muscle cells and a perturbed cellular redox and metabolic balance. Oxidants induce cell cycle arrest to halt proliferation; however, little is known about the redox-regulated effector proteins that mediate these processes. Here, we report a novel kinase-inhibitory disulfide bond in cyclin D-CDK4 (cyclin-dependent kinase 4) and investigate its role in cell proliferation and PH.

METHODS: Oxidative modifications of cyclin D-CDK4 were detected in human pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells and human pulmonary arterial endothelial cells. Site-directed mutagenesis, tandem mass-spectrometry, cell-based experiments, in vitro kinase activity assays, in silico structural modeling, and a novel redox-dead constitutive knock-in mouse were utilized to investigate the nature and definitively establish the importance of CDK4 cysteine modification in pulmonary vascular cell proliferation. Furthermore, the cyclin D-CDK4 oxidation was assessed in vivo in the pulmonary arteries and isolated human pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and in 3 preclinical models of PH.

RESULTS: Cyclin D-CDK4 forms a reversible oxidant-induced heterodimeric disulfide dimer between C7/8 and C135, respectively, in cells in vitro and in pulmonary arteries in vivo to inhibit cyclin D-CDK4 kinase activity, decrease Rb (retinoblastoma) protein phosphorylation, and induce cell cycle arrest. Mutation of CDK4 C135 causes a kinase-impaired phenotype, which decreases cell proliferation rate and alleviates disease phenotype in an experimental mouse PH model, suggesting this cysteine is indispensable for cyclin D-CDK4 kinase activity. Pulmonary arteries and human pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension display a decreased level of CDK4 disulfide, consistent with CDK4 being hyperactive in human pulmonary arterial hypertension. Furthermore, auranofin treatment, which induces the cyclin D-CDK4 disulfide, attenuates disease severity in experimental PH models by mitigating pulmonary vascular remodeling.

CONCLUSIONS: A novel disulfide bond in cyclin D-CDK4 acts as a rapid switch to inhibit kinase activity and halt cell proliferation. This oxidative modification forms at a critical cysteine residue, which is unique to CDK4, offering the potential for the design of a selective covalent inhibitor predicted to be beneficial in PH.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:133

Enthalten in:

Circulation research - 133(2023), 12 vom: 08. Dez., Seite 966-988

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Knight, Hannah [VerfasserIn]
Abis, Giancarlo [VerfasserIn]
Kaur, Manpreet [VerfasserIn]
Green, Hannah L H [VerfasserIn]
Krasemann, Susanne [VerfasserIn]
Hartmann, Kristin [VerfasserIn]
Lynham, Steven [VerfasserIn]
Clark, James [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Lan [VerfasserIn]
Ruppert, Clemens [VerfasserIn]
Weiss, Astrid [VerfasserIn]
Schermuly, Ralph T [VerfasserIn]
Eaton, Philip [VerfasserIn]
Rudyk, Olena [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CDK4 protein, human
Cell cycle
Cell proliferation
Cyclin D
Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4
Cyclins
Cysteine
EC 2.7.11.22
Hypertension, pulmonary
Journal Article
K848JZ4886
Myocytes, smooth muscle
Oxidation-reduction
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 14.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.122.321836

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364468394