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Science 321 (5892): 1095-1100

Copyright © 2008 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Control of the Reversibility of Cellular Quiescence by the Transcriptional Repressor HES1

Liyun Sang,1,2 Hilary A. Coller,3 James M. Roberts1,4*

Abstract: The mechanisms by which quiescent cells, including adult stem cells, preserve their ability to resume proliferation after weeks or even years of cell cycle arrest are not known. We report that reversibility is not a passive property of nondividing cells, because enforced cell cycle arrest for a period as brief as 4 days initiates spontaneous, premature, and irreversible senescence. Increased expression of the gene encoding the basic helix-loop-helix protein HES1 was required for quiescence to be reversible, because HES1 prevented both premature senescence and inappropriate differentiation in quiescent fibroblasts. In some human tumors, the HES1 pathway was activated, which allowed these cells to evade differentiation and irreversible cell cycle arrest. We conclude that HES1 safeguards against irreversible cell cycle exit both during normal cellular quiescence and pathologically in the setting of tumorigenesis.

1 Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
2 Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
3 Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jroberts{at}fhcrc.org

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