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Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2007, p. 2452-2465, Vol. 27, No. 7
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01592-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Definition of pRB- and p53-Dependent and -Independent Steps in HIRA/ASF1a-Mediated Formation of Senescence-Associated Heterochromatin Foci{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Xiaofen Ye,1 Brad Zerlanko,1 Rugang Zhang,1 Neeta Somaiah,1 Marc Lipinski,3 Paolo Salomoni,2 and Peter D. Adams1*

Department of Basic Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111,1 Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom,2 Interactions Moleculaires et Cancer, CNRS UMR 1598, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif Cedex, France3

Received 25 August 2006/ Returned for modification 23 September 2006/ Accepted 27 December 2006

Cellular senescence is an irreversible proliferation arrest triggered by short chromosome telomeres, activated oncogenes, and cell stress and mediated by the pRB and p53 tumor suppressor pathways. One of the earliest steps in the senescence program is translocation of a histone chaperone, HIRA, into promyelocytic leukemia (PML) nuclear bodies. This relocalization precedes other markers of senescence, including the appearance of specialized domains of facultative heterochromatin called senescence-associated heterochromatin foci (SAHF) and cell cycle exit. SAHF represses expression of proliferation-promoting genes, thereby driving exit from the cell cycle. HIRA bound to another histone chaperone, ASF1a, drives formation of SAHF. Here, we show that HIRA's translocation to PML bodies occurs in response to all senescence triggers tested. Dominant negative HIRA mutants that block HIRA's localization to PML bodies prevent formation of SAHF, as does a PML-RAR{alpha} fusion protein which disrupts PML bodies, directly supporting the idea that localization of HIRA to PML bodies is required for formation of SAHF. Significantly, translocation of HIRA to PML bodies occurs in the absence of functional pRB and p53 tumor suppressor pathways. However, our evidence indicates that downstream of HIRA's localization to PML bodies, the HIRA/ASF1a pathway cooperates with pRB and p53 to make SAHF, with the HIRA/ASF1a and pRB pathways acting in parallel. We present evidence that convergence of the HIRA/ASF1a and pRB pathways occurs through a DNAJ-domain protein, DNAJA2.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Basic Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111. Phone: (215) 728-7108. Fax: (215) 728-3616. E-mail: Peter.Adams{at}fccc.edu.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 22 January 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org/.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2007, p. 2452-2465, Vol. 27, No. 7
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01592-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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