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Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2008, p. 7066-7080, Vol. 28, No. 23
0270-7306/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00244-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Regulatory Role of Human AP-Endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1) in YB-1-Mediated Activation of the Multidrug Resistance Gene MDR1{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Ranajoy Chattopadhyay,1 Soumita Das,1 Amit K. Maiti,1 Istvan Boldogh,2 Jingwu Xie,3 Tapas K. Hazra,1 Kimitoshi Kohno,4 Sankar Mitra,1 and Kishor K. Bhakat1*

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology,2 Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555,3 Department of Molecular Biology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health School of Medicine, Iseigaoka, Kitakyushu, Japan4

Received 13 February 2008/ Returned for modification 5 May 2008/ Accepted 8 September 2008

Human AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1), a central enzyme involved in the repair of oxidative base damage and DNA strand breaks, has a second activity as a transcriptional regulator that binds to several trans-acting factors. APE1 overexpression is often observed in tumor cells and confers resistance to various anticancer drugs; its downregulation sensitizes tumor cells to such agents. Because the involvement of APE1 in repairing the DNA damage induced by many of these drugs is unlikely, drug resistance may be linked to APE1's transcriptional regulatory function. Here, we show that APE1, preferably in the acetylated form, stably interacts with Y-box-binding protein 1 (YB-1) and enhances its binding to the Y-box element, leading to the activation of the multidrug resistance gene MDR1. The enhanced MDR1 level due to the ectopic expression of wild-type APE1 but not of its nonacetylable mutant underscores the importance of APE1's acetylation in its coactivator function. APE1 downregulation sensitizes MDR1-overexpressing tumor cells to cisplatin or doxorubicin, showing APE1's critical role in YB-1-mediated gene expression and, thus, drug resistance in tumor cells. A systematic increase in both APE1 and MDR1 expression was observed in non-small-cell lung cancer tissue samples. Thus, our study has established the novel role of the acetylation-mediated transcriptional regulatory function of APE1, making it a potential target for the drug sensitization of tumor cells.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 6.136 Medical Research Building, Galveston, TX 77555-1079. Phone: (409) 772-1779. Fax: (409) 747-8608. E-mail: kkbhakat{at}utmb.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 22 September 2008.

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

Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2008, p. 7066-7080, Vol. 28, No. 23
0270-7306/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00244-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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