S Phase-Specific Proteolytic Cleavage Is Required To Activate Stable DNA Binding by the CDP/Cut Homeodomain Protein
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The CCAAT displacement protein (CDP), the homologue of the Drosophila melanogaster Cut protein, contains four DNA binding domains that function in pairs. Cooperation between Cut repeat 3 and the Cut homeodomain allows stable DNA binding to the ATCGAT motif, an activity previously shown to be upregulated in S phase. Here we showed that the full-length CDP/Cut protein is incapable of stable DNA binding and that the ATCGAT binding activity present in cells involves a 110-kDa carboxy-terminal peptide of CDP/Cut. A vector expressing CDP/Cut with Myc and hemagglutinin epitope tags at either end generated N- and C-terminal products of 90 and 110 kDa, suggesting that proteolytic cleavage was involved. In vivo pulse/chase labeling experiments confirmed that the 110-kDa protein was derived from the full-length CDP/Cut protein. Proteolytic processing was weak or not detectable in G(0) and G(1) but increased in populations of cells enriched in S phase, and the appearance of the 110-kDa protein coincided with the increase in ATCGAT DNA binding. Interestingly, the amino-truncated and the full-length CDP/Cut isoforms exhibited different transcriptional properties in a reporter assay. We conclude that proteolytic processing of CDP/Cut at the G(1)/S transition generates a CDP/Cut isoform with distinct DNA binding and transcriptional activities. These findings, together with the cleavage of the Scc1 protein at mitosis, suggest that site-specific proteolysis may play an important role in the regulation of cell cycle progression.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".