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	Chem. Biol. Nov (2007); 14(11):1261-72
A coupled chemical-genetic and bioinformatic approach to Polo-like kinase pathway exploration-
Snead JL, Sullivan M, Lowery DM, Cohen MS, Zhang C, Randle DH, Taunton J, Yaffe MB, Morgan DO, Shokat KM
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA-
Abstract: Protein phosphorylation is a ubiquitous mechanism for cellular signal propagation, and signaling network complexity presents a challenge to protein kinase substrate identification- Few targets of Polo-like kinases are known, despite their significant role in coordinating cell-cycle progression- Here, we combine chemical-genetic, bioinformatic, and proteomic tools for Polo-like kinase substrate identification- Specific pharmacological inhibition of budding yeast Polo-like kinase, Cdc5, resulted in a misaligned preanaphase spindle and subsequently delayed anaphase nuclear migration, revealing a Cdc5 function- A cellular screen for Cdc5 substrates identified Spc72, a spindle pole body -SPB- component and microtubule anchor required for nuclear positioning- Spc72 bound to the Cdc5 PBD in a mitosis-specific manner, was phosphorylated by Cdc5 in vitro, and demonstrated a loss of mitotic phosphorylation in vivo upon Cdc5 inhibition- Finally, an examination of Cdc5 binding by SPB-localized proteins expanded our knowledge of Cdc5 function at the SPB-
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