title: Inhibition of p63 transcriptional activity by p14ARF: functional and physical link between human ARF tumor suppressor and a member of the p53 family.
abstract: The ARF/MDM2/p53 pathway is a principal defense mechanism to protect the organism from uncontrolled effects of deregulated oncogenes. Oncogenes activate ARF, which interacts with and inhibits the ubiquitin ligase MDM2, resulting in p53 stabilization and activation. Once stabilized and activated, p53 can either induce or repress a wide array of different gene targets, which in turn can regulate cell cycle, DNA repair, and a number of apoptosis-related genes. Here we show that, unlike p53, p63, a member of the p53 family, directly interacts with p14(ARF). Through this interaction ARF inhibits p63-mediated transactivation and transrepression. In p63-transfected cells, ARF, which normally localizes into nucleoli, accumulates in the nucleoplasm. Based on these observations, we suggest that stimuli inducing p14(ARF) expression can, at the same time, activate p53 and impair p63 transcriptional activity, altering the pattern of p53 target gene expression. Here we show, for the first time, a physical and functional link between the p14(ARF) tumor suppressor protein and p63, a member of the p53 family.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, General and Molecular Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 8, 80134 Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: Viola
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Calabrò
authors.forename: Gelsomina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mansueto
authors.forename: Raffaela
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gentilella
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pollice
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ghioni
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guerrini
authors.forename: Girolama
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: La Mantia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019556:COS Cells; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D009154:Mutation; D041681:NIH 3T3 Cells; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D025803:Tumor Suppressor Protein p14ARF / Q000378:metabolism*; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010750:Phosphoproteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; C486419:Trp63 protein, mouse; D025803:Tumor Suppressor Protein p14ARF; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53