title: Recruitment of p300/CBP in p53-dependent signal pathways.
abstract: The products of the p53 and CBP/p300 genes have been individually implicated in control of cell growth and regulation of transcription. p53 is known to act as a positive and negative regulator of gene expression. Here we show that p53, in both wild-type and mutant conformation, forms a specific protein complex with p300. However, in its wild-type but not mutant conformation, p53 inhibits a promoter containing the DNA-binding sequences for the transcription factor AP1, in a p300-dependent manner. p300 stimulates the transcriptional activity of p53 on p53-regulated promoters, and it enhances the responsiveness to a physiological upstream modulator of p53 function, ionizing radiation. A dominant negative form of p300 prevents transcriptional activation by p53, and it counteracts p53-mediated G1 arrest and apoptosis. The data implicate p300 as an important component of p53-signaling, thus providing new insight into the mechanisms of cellular proliferation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Avantaggiati
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ogryzko
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D050882:CREB-Binding Protein; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D016193:G1 Phase / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology; D016296:Mutagenesis / Q000502:physiology; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D015534:Trans-Activators; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000502:physiology; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1; D014157:Transcription Factors; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53; D050882:CREB-Binding Protein; C494363:CREBBP protein, human