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Dissection of CDK4-binding and transactivation activities of p34(SEI-1) and comparison between functions of p34(SEI-1) and p16(INK4A).

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:Recent studies showed that p34(SEI-1), also known as TRIP-Br1 or SEI-1, plays a dual role in the regulation of cell-cycle progression. It exhibits the transactivation activity and regulates a number of genes required for G1/S transition, while it also binds and activates cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) independent of the inhibitory activity of p16. The goals of this paper are to further dissect the two roles and to compare the functions between SEI-1 and p16. (i) Yeast one-hybrid-based random mutagenesis was first used to identify a number of SEI-1 residues important for LexA-mediated transactivation, including residues L51, K52, L53, H54, L57, and L69 located within the heptad repeat (residues 30-88), a domain required for LexA-mediated transactivation, and two residues M219 and L228 at the C-terminal segment that contributes to transactivation through modulating the heptad repeat. (ii) The functional significance of these residues was further confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis. It was also shown that the heptad repeat-involving transactivation is distinct from the well-known acidic region-involving transactivation. (iii) Yeast two-hybrid-based binding analysis was made possible with the transactivation-negative SEI-1 mutants, and the results showed that some of such mutants retain full ability to bind and activate CDK4. (iv) Site-specific mutants of CDK4 were used to show that there are notable differences among SEI-1, p16, and cyclin D2 in binding to CDK4. (v) The expression levels of SEI-1 and p16 were compared in 32 tumor specimens of human squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck. The results indicate that SEI-1 was consistently overexpressed, while p16 was consistently underexpressed. These results provide important information on the molecular mechanism of the functions of SEI-1 and on the comparison between SEI-1 and p16 at both molecular and cellular levels.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Li J,Muscarella P,Joo SH,Knobloch TJ,Melvin WS,Weghorst CM,Tsai MD

doi

10.1021/bi0504658

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-10-11 00:00:00

pages

13246-56

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Dissection of CDK4-binding and transactivation activities of p34(SEI-1) and comparison between functions of p34(SEI-1) and p16(INK4A).