Phospho-ΔNp63α/NF-Y protein complex transcriptionally regulates DDIT3 expression in squamous cell carcinoma cells upon cisplatin exposure

Autor: Edward A. Ratovitski, Alice Y. Chuang, David Sidransky, Nanette J. Liégeois, Rose-Anne Romano, Yiping Huang, Barry Trink, Satrajit Sinha
Rok vydání: 2010
Předmět:
Programmed cell death
Transcription
Genetic

Down-Regulation
Antineoplastic Agents
Apoptosis
Cell Cycle Proteins
Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins
Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Biology
Downregulation and upregulation
Transcriptional regulation
medicine
Humans
Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
RNA
Messenger

Phosphorylation
Molecular Biology
Transcription factor
Regulation of gene expression
Cisplatin
Tumor Suppressor Proteins
Cell Biology
medicine.disease
Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma
Molecular biology
Up-Regulation
DNA-Binding Proteins
Gene Expression Regulation
Neoplastic

Amino Acid Substitution
CCAAT-Binding Factor
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Cell culture
Mutation
Carcinoma
Squamous Cell

Trans-Activators
Cancer research
Transcription Factor CHOP
Transcription Factors
Developmental Biology
medicine.drug
Zdroj: Cell Cycle. 9:328-338
ISSN: 1551-4005
1538-4101
DOI: 10.4161/cc.9.2.10432
Popis: Cisplatin remains the most important chemotherapeutic agent for patients with human head and neck cancer. However, tumor cells often develop resistance to cisplatin-induced apoptosis. We previously found that head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cells exposed to cisplatin display a marked ATM-induced phosphorylation of DeltaNp63alpha. However, the mutated Np63-S385G failed to undergo phosphorylation by ATM kinase. We used HNSCC cell lines expressing the wild type DeltaNp63alpha or mutated DeltaNp63alpha-S385G to determine the effect of S385G mutation on the DeltaNp63alpha transcriptional activity and protein-protein interactions. The S385G mutation in DeltaNp63alpha dramatically abolished the upregulation/downregulation of downstream gene targets and the binding of DeltaNp63alpha-S385G to certain promoters. In contrast to the non-phosphorylated DeltaNp63alpha-S385G, the phospho-DeltaNp63alpha forms protein-protein complexes with NF-YA transcription factor and regulates the transcription of DDIT3 gene implicated in the programmed cell death of HNSCC cells upon cisplatin exposure. We suggest that the transcriptional activation of DeltaNp63alpha through its phosphorylation by ATM kinase in HNSCC cells exposed to cisplatin is a critical step in the subsequent sensitivity of certain human head and neck cancers to platinum therapy.
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