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2022年12月26日
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25 ExCELLSセミナー

第25回 ExCELLSセミナーを開催いたします。
 ※本セミナーは英語で実施されます。Seminar Language: English

日時

2023年1月16日(月) 16:00〜17:00

開催形式

ハイブリッド 
  【会場】山手3号館 2F  大会議室   
  【配信】Zoom ※所内メールでURLをお知らせします 

演者

Dr. Jan Skotheim
Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University

題目

How cells coordinate growth and division

要旨

Cell size is fundamental to function in different cell types across the human body because it sets the scale of organelle structures, surface transport, and, most importantly, biosynthesis. While some genes affecting cell size have been identified, the molecular mechanisms through which cell growth drives cell division had remained elusive. While it was expected that growth would act to increase the activities of the cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdk) known to promote cell division, this is not the case. Rather, we found that cell growth acts in the opposite manner. Cell growth triggers division by diluting proteins that inhibit cell division, Whi5 in yeast, and the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor Rb in human cells.

Thus, inhibitor dilution provides one long sought mechanism coupling cell growth to cell division and it relies on the differential scaling of the biosynthesis of cell cycle activators and inhibitors molecules. How are some molecules synthesized to remain in proportion to cell size while others are synthesized in amounts that are independent of cell size?

We have begun to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying size scaling across the proteome and have uncovered both transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms that tune protein concentrations to enhance cellular function and control cell size.

 

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青木 一洋(定量生物学研究グループ)

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