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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2007, p. 111-119, Vol. 27, No. 1
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00235-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Human MDM2 Isoforms Translated Differentially on Constitutive versus p53-Regulated Transcripts Have Distinct Functions in the p53/MDM2 and TSG101/MDM2 Feedback Control Loops{triangledown}

Tzu-Hao Cheng{dagger} and Stanley N. Cohen*

Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5120

Received 8 February 2006/ Returned for modification 10 April 2006/ Accepted 9 October 2006

Proteins encoded by the mdm2 gene, which has a pivotal role in the regulation of growth and differentiation, exist principally in human and murine cells as two isoforms that migrate in gels as 75-kDa and 90-kDa proteins. There is limited understanding of the respective biological roles of these isoforms, their molecular nature, and their mechanism of formation. We report here that human p75MDM2 is an N-terminally truncated mixture of protein isoforms produced by the initiation of translation at two distinct internal AUG codons. The p75MDM2 doublets and p90MDM2, which is the full-length MDM2 protein, are expressed in approximately equal amounts from transcripts initiated at the constitutive P1 promoter of mdm2. Unlike murine transcripts initiated at the p53-activated P2 promoter, human cell transcripts initiated at the P2 promoter preferentially produce p90MDM2. The ubiquitin enzyme variant protein TSG101, which interacts functionally with MDM2 in an autoregulatory loop that parallels the p53/MDM2 feedback control loop, interferes with degradation of both isoforms; however, only p90MDM2 promotes proteolysis of TSG101 and p53. Our results reveal the mechanism of formation of the principal MDM2 isoforms, the differential effects of p53 on the production of these isoforms, and the differential abilities of human MDM2 isoforms as regulators of the MDM2/TSG101 and p53/MDM2 feedback control loops.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Genetics, 300 Pasteur Dr., Stanford, CA 94305-5120. Phone: (650) 723-5315. Fax: (650) 725-1536. E-mail: sncohen{at}stanford.edu.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 23 October 2006.

{dagger} Present address: Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2007, p. 111-119, Vol. 27, No. 1
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00235-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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