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Mol. Cell. Biol., 02 1995, 1060-1070, Vol 15, No. 2
P Sabbatini, SK Chiou, L Rao and E White
BRK cell lines that stably express adenovirus E1A and a murine
temperature-sensitive p53 undergo apoptosis when p53 assumes the wild- type
conformation. Expression of the E1B 19,000-molecular-weight (19K) protein
rescues cells from this p53-mediated apoptosis and diverts cells to a
growth-arrested state. As p53 likely functions as a tumor suppressor by
regulating transcription, the ability of the E1B 19K protein to regulate
p53-mediated transactivation and transcriptional repression was
investigated. In promoter-reporter assays the E1B 19K did not block
p53-mediated transactivation but did alleviate p53- mediated
transcriptional repression. E1B 19K expression permitted efficient
transcriptional activation of the p21/WAF-1/cip-1 mRNA by p53, consistent
with maintenance of the growth arrest function of p53. The E1B 19K protein
is thereby unique among DNA virus-transforming proteins that target p53 for
inactivation in that it selectively modulates the transcriptional
properties of p53. The E1B 19K protein also rescued cells from apoptosis
induced by inhibitors of transcription and protein synthesis. This suggests
that cell death may result from the inhibition of expression of survival
factors which function to maintain cell viability. p53 may induce apoptosis
through generalized transcriptional repression. In turn, the E1B 19K
protein may prevent p53-mediated apoptosis by alleviating p53-mediated
transcriptional repression.
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology
Modulation of p53-mediated transcriptional repression and apoptosis by the adenovirus E1B 19K protein
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854.
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