Circadian Clock Synchronization of the Cell Cycle in Zebrafish Occurs through a Gating Mechanism Rather Than a Period-phase Locking Process
Laranjeiro, Ricardo, Tamai, T. Katherine, Letton, William, Hamilton, Noémie, and Whitmore, David (2018) Circadian Clock Synchronization of the Cell Cycle in Zebrafish Occurs through a Gating Mechanism Rather Than a Period-phase Locking Process. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 33 (2). pp. 137-150.
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Abstract
Studies from a number of model systems have shown that the circadian clock controls expression of key cell cycle checkpoints, thus providing permissive or inhibitory windows in which specific cell cycle events can occur. However, a major question remains: Is the clock actually regulating the cell cycle through such a gating mechanism or, alternatively, is there a coupling process that controls the speed of cell cycle progression? Using our light-responsive zebrafish cell lines, we address this issue directly by synchronizing the cell cycle in culture simply by changing the entraining light-dark (LD) cycle in the incubator without the need for pharmacological intervention. Our results show that the cell cycle rapidly reentrains to a shifted LD cycle within 36 h, with changes in p21 expression and subsequent S phase timing occurring within the first few hours of resetting. Reentrainment of mitosis appears to lag S phase resetting by 1 circadian cycle. The range of entrainment of the zebrafish clock to differing LD cycles is large, from 16 to 32 hour periods. We exploited this feature to explore cell cycle entrainment at both the population and single cell levels. At the population level, cell cycle length is shortened or lengthened under corresponding T-cycles, suggesting that a 1:1 coupling mechanism is capable of either speeding up or slowing down the cell cycle. However, analysis at the single cell level reveals that this, in fact, is not true and that a gating mechanism is the fundamental method of timed cell cycle regulation in zebrafish. Cell cycle length at the single cell level is virtually unaltered with varying T-cycles.
Item ID: | 63128 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 1552-4531 |
Keywords: | cell cycle, entrainment, gating, T-cycle, zebrafish |
Copyright Information: | © 2018 The Author(s) CC-BY. |
Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2022 00:33 |
FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3109 Zoology > 310909 Animal physiology - cell @ 100% |
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