Gas1-induced growth suppression requires a transactivation-independent p53 function.
In normal cells, induction of quiescence is accompanied by the increased expression of growth arrest-specific genes (gas). One of them, gas1, is regulated at the transcriptional level and codes for a membrane-associated protein (Gas1) which is down regulated during the G0-to-S phase transition in serum-stimulated cells. Gas1 is not expressed in growing or transformed cells, and when overexpressed in normal fibroblasts, it blocks the G0-to-S phase transition. Moreover, Gas1 blocks cell proliferation in several transformed cells with the exception of simian virus 40- or adenovirus-transformed cell lines. In this paper, we demonstrate that overexpression of Gas1 blocks cell proliferation in a p53-dependent manner and that the N-terminal domain-dependent transactivating function of p53 is dispensable for Gas1-induced growth arrest. These data therefore indicate that the other intrinsic transactivation-independent functions of p53, possibly related to regulation of apoptosis, should be involved in mediating Gas1-induced growth arrest.
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Laboratorio Nazionale Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie, Trieste, Italy.
Ruaro
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Utrera
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Cole
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Levine
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Schneider
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D000906:Antibodies; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; C096192:GAS1 protein, human; D058851:GPI-Linked Proteins; C501180:Gas1 protein, mouse; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase