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Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 1999, p. 1279-1288, Vol. 19, No. 2
Department of Molecular Genetics,
Biochemistry, and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0524
Received 23 April 1998/Returned for modification 16 June
1998/Accepted 27 October 1998
Aberrant expression of the alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene is
characteristic of a majority of hepatocellular carcinoma cases and serves as a diagnostic tumor-specific marker. By dissecting regulatory mechanisms through electromobility gel shift,
transient-transfection, Western blot, and in vitro transcription
analyses, we find that AFP gene expression is controlled in part by
mutually exclusive binding of two trans-acting factors, p53
and hepatic nuclear factor 3 (HNF-3). HNF-3 protein activates while p53
represses AFP transcription through sequence-specific binding within
the previously identified AFP developmental repressor domain. A
single mutation within the DNA binding domain of p53 protein or a
mutation of the p53 DNA binding element within the AFP developmental
repressor eliminates p53-repressive effects in both
transient-transfection and cell-free expression systems. Coexpression
of p300 histone acetyltransferase, which has been shown to acetylate
p53 and increase specific DNA binding, amplifies the p53-mediated
repression. Western blot analysis of proteins present in
developmentally staged, liver nuclear extracts reveal a one-to-one
correlation between activation of p53 protein and repression of AFP
during hepatic development. Induction of p53 in response to actinomycin
D or hypoxic stress decreases AFP expression. Studies in fibroblast
cells lacking HNF-3 further support a model for
p53-mediated repression that is both passive through displacement of a
tissue-specific activating factor and active in the presence of
tissue-specific corepressors. This mechanism for p53-mediated
repression of AFP gene expression may be active during hepatic
differentiation and lost in the process of tumorigenesis.
Loss of tumor suppressor p53
function has broad-ranging effects on many cellular processes,
including DNA repair, DNA replication, and cell cycle control, and is a
critical step in the progression of many human cancers (reviewed in
references 32, 46, and 51). p53 is
frequently portrayed as an emergency response molecule, activated only
under conditions of high stress or DNA damage. However, studies of
cellular differentiation and p53 function (24, 55, 66, 70,
80), as well as overexpression of p53 in transgenic mice
(24) or knockout of its genetic repressor MDM 2 (10), have underscored the importance of maintaining tightly regulated p53 activity during normal development.
The pleiotropic effects of p53 are most often ascribed to p53-mediated
transcriptional activation of downstream target genes (reviewed in
references 32, 46, and 51).
However, studies of apoptosis inhibitors, including adenovirus
E1B-19kD, bcl-2, and WT-1 proteins (56, 68), indicate that
p53 may also control cell growth and death by means other than
transcription activation. One proposed mechanism is p53-mediated
repression of gene expression. For example, activation of p53 protein
by UV irradiation of murine embryo-derived fibroblast cell lines
downregulated transcription of genes involved in the apoptotic response
of cells to stress, e.g., the MAP4 microtubule binding protein
(61). As yet, the mechanism by which p53 downregulates these
genes remains unclear.
Apparent inhibition of genes which lack p53-binding sites is generally
due to p53 protein-protein interaction and interference with
transactivators (1, 12, 19, 20, 50, 65, 78, 79, 85).
However, p53 protein, when bound to its specific recognition site in
DNA, can also recruit and tether adenovirus E1B 55K protein, which then
serves as an active repressor of transcription (86). Recent
evidence indicates that p53-mediated effects on transcription as a
DNA-bound activator or repressor also may be determined by DNA sequence
context. p53 protein bound to a regulatory element within the hepatitis
B virus (HBV) enhancer repressed transcription in the presence of
viral-enhancer-bound activators (64). Thus, the cellular
fate upon p53 protein activation may be dictated in part by
p53-mediated activation or the repression of specific promoters and may
be modulated by context-dependent cofactors (38, 54, 69).
Functional inactivation of p53 is often a critical step in the pathway
to tumorigenesis. This progression is frequently accompanied by a
reversion to gene expression patterns more characteristic of fetal or
undifferentiated cells. Inappropriate expression of the developmentally
silenced alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene in adult liver occurs in 70 to
85% of all hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cases (reviewed in reference
75). Aberrant activation of AFP transcription
provides an ideal system to study how a tightly controlled pattern of
regulation established during development and differentiation is
disrupted under tumorigenic conditions. HCC has been correlated
with p53 gene-specific mutations and p53 protein sequestration by HBV
proteins, suggesting that the loss of p53 function may be a catalyst of
disease progression (reviewed in reference 73). The
normal, postnatal repression of AFP is mediated through a repressor
domain which lies within 1 kb of the AFP transcription start site
(7, 8, 76). This domain can confer developmentally regulated
repression upon a heterologous gene. It contains overlapping consensus
DNA binding sites for the AFP transactivator, hepatic nuclear factor
3 The studies described here demonstrate that p53 represses AFP
transcription through site-specific DNA binding within the AFP repressor domain. p53-mediated repression of AFP gene expression acts
in opposition to the hepatic activator, HNF-3 Cell culture and plasmids.
HepG2 cells, a human
hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (AFP positive) purchased from the
American Type Culture Collection, were cultured in modified Eagle
medium (MEM; Gibco BRL) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (Gemini
Bio-Products, Inc., Calabasas, Calif.). Hepa 1-6 mouse hepatoma cells
(AFP positive) were grown in Dulbecco MEM (DMEM; Gibco BRL)
supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum. NIH 3T3 fibroblast cells (AFP
negative) were grown in DMEM with 10% bovine serum.
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p53-Mediated Repression of Alpha-Fetoprotein Gene
Expression by Specific DNA Binding
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(HNF-3 [2, 45]), and the tumor suppressor p53.
The presence of these overlapping binding sites within a repressor
domain suggested models by which formation of a multifactorial complex
or the mutually exclusive binding of activator(s) and repressor(s)
could direct opposing transcription patterns during hepatic development
and/or tumorigenesis.
, which competes with
p53 for DNA binding. Repression by p53 is further enhanced by
coexpression of the histone acetyltransferase-coactivator p300, which
has previously been shown to upregulate DNA binding of p53 protein to
its specific response element (30). The role of p53 as a
repressor of AFP transcription may be augmented by tissue-specific factors. These data suggest a novel mechanism by which the functional inactivation of p53 could potentiate aberrant activation of
developmentally repressed genes during tumorigenesis.
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-galactosidase (72).
1007 to +26,
was subcloned into BamHI/HindIII-digested AFP/lacZ fragment which lacked the entire AFP enhancer I region. The
BamHI fragment from 3.8 to 1 kb, which consists of the
AFP enhancer I region and flanking sequences, was subsequently ligated into the BamHI-digested intermediate plasmid to yield
APF/lacZmutN plasmid. This plasmid was used as a template for
subsequent PCR reactions in the creation of AFPmut5/lacZ with the
following primers: A, 5'-CCTCCATTTTATGAGTACACTATA-3'; B,
5'-AGCAAACTCGGCTCCCGCTCAAGACAC-3'; C,
5'-GTGTCTTGAGCGGGTGCCGTGTTTGCT-3'; and D,
5'-CGAGGGGAAAATAGGTTGCGCG-3'. The fragment was generated
from a second series of three-step PCRs and inserted into a TA cloning
vector, pCR2.1 (Invitrogen), exactly as described above to generate the
final mutated template, AFPmut5/lacZ.
The HNF-3 expression plasmid used in transient transfections contained
the Rous sarcoma virus long terminal repeat as a promoter and the
bovine growth hormone polyadenylation site downstream of the coding
region (42). p300 (wild-type p300 expression driven by the
cytomegalovirus [CMV] promoter) and p
300 (p300 coding sequence
deleted) plasmids were provided by P. Brindle (13). Plasmids
were prepared and purified by cesium chloride gradient centrifugation
(67).
Transfections and reporter assays. Cells were transfected by the calcium-phosphate method as previously described (28) with a few modifications. Cells were plated at approximately 3.0 × 105 cells per 60-mm dish 36 h before transfection. For each plate, a total of 10 to 12 µg of DNA were transfected as calcium phosphate coprecipitates and were maintained at equal concentrations in each experiment by cotransfection of control vector DNA. Cells were incubated for approximately 16 h after DNA introduction and then given a 15% glycerol shock for 3 min at 37°C. After three rinses with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), incubation in fresh glycerol-free media continued for an additional 24 to 36 h prior to the harvesting and preparation of cell extracts. For hypoxia studies, cells were incubated for 2 h after glycerol shock, placed under hypoxic (1% oxygen) or normoxic conditions at time equal zero, and harvested at specific time points. In all studies, cells were harvested by complete medium removal, addition of 500 µl of lysis buffer (Promega, Madison, Wis.), and scraping with a rubber policeman. The protein concentration of cellular extracts was determined by the Bradford method (Bio-Rad, Melville, N.Y.).
Cellular lysates were then analyzed for-galactosidase activity as
described by Spear et al. (72). As an internal control for
transfection efficiency, cells were cotransfected with pGL2 or pGL3
expression vectors (Promega) and analyzed for luciferase activity in an
analytical luminescence laboratory luminometer.
In vitro transcription, cell extracts, and protein expression. The method of Gorski et al. (25, 57) was used to prepare nuclear extracts from newborn mice aged 12 h to 4 days, mice at 2 weeks of age, and adult mice. Two grams of liver tissue from newborn and 2-week-old mice and 18 g of adult mouse liver tissue were processed. In vitro transcription extracts were prepared from human HepG2 cells as described by Dignam et al. (11) with the following minor modifications: cells were grown to 70% confluence and harvested by scraping into 1× PBS. Washed pellets were resuspended in six times the packed cell volume (PCV) with hypotonic buffer (20 mM HEPES, pH 7.9; 10 mM NaCl; 1.5 mM MgCl2; 2 mM dithiothreitol [DTT]). After cells were allowed to swell 10 min on ice, they were pelleted and resuspended in two PCVs with hypotonic buffer containing 0.05% Nonidet P-40 (NP-40) prior to Dounce homogenization (type B pestle; Wheaton). The remainder of the procedure was performed exactly as previously described (11). Protein extracts were dialyzed against two changes of 100 volumes of dialysis buffer (20 mM HEPES, pH 7.9; 50 mM KCl; 0.2 mM EDTA; 20% glycerol; 1 mM DTT; 0.2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride [PMSF]) for 2 h. each. In vitro transcription reactions were performed as previously described (5, 16).
Purification of recombinant, full-length p53 was performed basically as described by Hupp et al. (39). BL21/DE3 cells harboring pET15bp53 were grown at 37°C to an A600 of 0.6 to 0.8 in Luria-Bertani (LB) medium (67) containing 100 µg of ampicillin per ml, at which point IPTG (isopropyl--D-thiogalactopyranoside) was added to a
final concentration of 1 mM to induce expression. After overnight incubation at 37°C, cells were harvested by centrifugation at 4°C
for 15 min and resuspended in a buffer containing 10% sucrose and 50 mM HEPES (pH 8.0) to a final A600 of 150 to 200. Cells were lysed by the addition of KCl to 0.25 M, DTT to 2 mM, and lysozyme to 0.5 mg/ml with mixing. After incubation for 30 min on ice,
the lysates were centrifuged. The supernatant was used as a crude
source of soluble p53 protein.
Further purification of p53 was achieved as described by Gallagher and
Blumenthal (22) with some modifications. After two passages
through a French pressure cell, the cell lysate was slowly mixed at
4°C with 4 M ammonium sulfate (final concentration, 2 M) and allowed
to incubate on ice for 30 min. Protein was pelleted by centrifugation
and then resuspended in buffer B (100 mM KCl; 20% glycerol; 25 mM
HEPES, pH 7.6; 0.1 mM EDTA; 2 mM DTT; 5 mM MgCl2). The
ammonium sulfate-fractionated protein was dialyzed against excess
buffer B. The dialyzed protein was passed over a heparin Sepharose
Hi-Trap column (Pharmacia) preequilibrated in buffer B containing 50 mM
KCl. Adsorbed proteins were eluted by a step gradient from 50 mM to 1 M
KCl in buffer B and collected in 500-µl aliquots. Protein
concentrations were determined as previously described. Peak protein
fractions were determined by separation on a 12% gel by sodium dodecyl
sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel and Western blot analysis (ECL;
Amersham Life Science Products). Monoclonal antibody specific for the
C-terminal end of p53, pAb421, was purchased from Pharmagin. Peak
fractions positive for p53 were pooled and dialyzed against excess
buffer B for a total of 3 h at 4°C. Proteins were stored at
100°C prior to use.
In vitro activation of recombinant p53 was achieved by casein kinase II
(New England Biolabs) phosphorylation in a reaction mixture containing
20 mM Tris; HCl, pH 8.0; 50 mM KCl; 100 mM MgCl2; 1 mM ATP;
and 20 mM PMSF. The reaction was incubated at 30°C for 30 min with 50 U of casein kinase II enzyme, and the activated p53 protein was
utilized as described in the text.
A plasmid coding for the constitutively active human p53 protein,
p5330 (39), was created by PCR amplification of pET15bp53 by using the following primers: 5'-GATATACATATGGAGGAGCCGCAGTCAG-3' and 5'-CTCGAGTGCGGCCGCGCCCTGCTCCCCCC-3'. The amplified
fragment was first inserted into a TA cloning vector (Invitrogen) and
then isolated through restriction enzyme digestion. The resulting DNA fragment was then inserted into a pET23b vector (Novagen), which added
a histidine tag to the C terminus of the protein. BL21/DE3 cells
harboring p5330 were grown in LB media with 100 µg of ampicillin per ml until the optical density was between 0.6 and 0.8, at which point IPTG was added to a final concentration of 1 mM to induce expression. After an overnight induction at 37°, cells were harvested by centrifugation, and the pellets were frozen, thawed, and resuspended in 20 ml of binding buffer (5 mM imidazole; 0.5 M NaCl; 20 mM Tris-HCl,
pH 7.9; 1 mM PMSF). After a 30-s sonication, cells were incubated on
ice for 5 min and then pelleted by centrifugation for 15 min at 4°C.
The pellets were resuspended in binding buffer containing 6 M urea and
1 mM PMSF. The cells were sonicated again and then incubated at 4°
for 1 h on a rotating platform (Nutator). Supernatant and cell
debris were then separated by centrifugation for 15 min. Supernatant
was then passed over a nickel agarose (Qiagen) column, which had been
charged with 50 mM NiSO4, and washed with binding buffer
containing 6 M urea. After the supernatant had passed through, the
column was washed with additional binding buffer containing 6 M urea.
The column was washed with wash buffer (20 mM imidazole; 0.5 M NaCl; 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.9). Proteins were then eluted with elution buffer
(300 mM imidizole; 0.5M NaCl; 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.8) containing 6 M
urea. Eluted fractions were dialyzed against at least 100 volumes of
dialysis buffer (20 mM HEPES, pH 6.5; 400 mM KCl; 1 mM
MgCl2; 20% glycerol; 0.1% NP-40; 0.5 mM PMSF; 3 mM DTT)
with stepwise reduction in urea concentration. Dialysis was begun in
the cold room for 3 h against dialysis buffer containing 5 M urea
and then for 2 h each at 4, 2, 1, and finally 0 M urea. Protein
was confirmed by Western blotting analysis, frozen as aliquots in
liquid nitrogen, and stored at 100°C until use.
Recombinant HNF-3 was expressed in bacteria and purified extensively
by K. Stevens and K. Zaret (88). The purified HNF-3 protein used in the electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) was the
generous gift of K. Zaret.
EMSAs.
The following double-stranded oligomers were used in
gel retardation assays: overlapping HNF-3/p53 binding site from AFP
860 to 831 30-mer, 5'-GCCTTAGCAAACATGTCTGGACCTCTAGAC-3'
and 3'-CGGAATCGTTTGTACAGACCTGGAGATCTG-5'; consensus
C/EBP site (44) 20-mer,
5'-TTCAATTGGGCAATCAGGAA-3' and
3'-AAGTTAACCCGTTAGTCCTT-5'; consensus p53 site
(15) 23-mer, 5'-TAGGCATGTCTAGGCATGTCTAAGCT-3'
and 3'-ATCCGTACAGATCCGTACAGATTCGA-5'; and consensus
HNF-3 site (48) 24-mer, 5'-GATCCCCTTTATTGACTTTGACAG-3' and 3'-GGGAAATAACTGAAACTGTCCTAG-5'.
-32P]ATP
(DuPont-NEN) and T4 polynucleotide kinase (Gibco BRL) or by
[-32P]dATP (DuPont-NEN) and Klenow fragment (Gibco
BRL) filled in according to standard protocols (67).
Radiolabeled, duplexed oligomers were incubated with cellular extracts
in a reaction mixture containing (final concentrations) 1 mM DTT, 50 mM
NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 20 mM EDTA, 6% glycerol, 0.1 mg of
bovine serum albumin per ml, 1 µg of poly(dI)-poly(dC), and 0.025%
NP-40. Incubations were carried out on ice for 30 min. In cases where
antibodies or cold competitor were included for supershifts or
competition, respectively, reactions were assembled, including the
antibody or unlabeled oligonucleotide but without the radiolabeled
probe and allowed to incubate on ice for 15 min. Similarly, when
protein competition for DNA binding was analyzed, proteins were added to reactions without the radiolabeled probe and allowed to incubate on
ice for 15 min. Probe was then added, and the reaction was allowed to
continue for an additional 20 min. Samples were analyzed by
electrophoresis at 4°C at 240 V on a 5% polyacrylamide gel (39:1,
acrylamide/bis) containing 0.5× Tris-borate-EDTA (TBE), 0.05% NP-40,
5% glycerol, 1 mM EDTA, and 0.5 mM DTT in a running buffer of 0.5× TBE.
Western blot analysis and antibodies. Western blotting was performed as previously described (9). Approximately 50 µg of total protein of newborn, 2-week-old, and adult mouse liver nuclear extracts and 30 µg of both untreated and actinomycin D-treated (59) cellular extracts were fractionated by electrophoresis on a 4.2% stacking-10% separating SDS polyacrylamide gel. Proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose (NitroBond; MicroSystem, Inc., Westborough, Mass.) overnight at 40 mA. The nitrocellulose was blocked in blocking buffer (100 mM Tris Cl, pH 7.8; 150 mM NaCl; 0.1% Tween 20; 3.0% bovine serum albumin [BSA]) and then probed with the appropriate antibody. The blot was stripped and reblocked for subsequent probing with additional antibodies as recommended by the manufacturer (Amersham), with the exception that stripping was done at 42°C for 35 to 40 min. Primary antibodies used were as follows, p53, pAb240 (Santa Cruz); p21, WAF1(Ab5) (Oncogene Research Products); alpha-fetoprotein, lyophilized anti-mouse alpha-fetoprotein serum (ICN, Irvine, Calif.). Enhanced chemiluminescence reagents and secondary antibodies were provided by the manufacturer (Amersham).
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AFP gene expression is repressed upon p53 expression. An extensive series of studies primarily using a transgenic mouse model defined a region of the mouse AFP distal promoter that confers postnatal silencing (76). Repression at the level of transcription occurs in heterologous constructs containing this regulatory element independent of the AFP gene enhancer(s) (71). In pursuing regulatory studies of aberrant AFP gene activation during tumorigenesis, we focused on potential transcription factors interacting with the developmental repressor domain. Computer-aided scanning (with Entrez/MacVector) for transcription factor consensus binding sites within this repressor domain revealed protein binding sites for the hepatic-enriched HNF-3 fetal liver activator overlapping one dimer-half-tetramer binding site of the p53 tumor suppressor protein (Fig. 1A). This dimer binding site matches the reported consensus sequence for p53 regulation, PuPuPuCA/TT/AGPyPyPy (15; 87). Directly abutting this dimer half-site is a less perfect direct repeat of the element and an additional imperfect half-site with a spacing of 3 base pairs (Fig. 1A).
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-galactosidase expression driven by AFPmut5
remained constant and slightly elevated above the levels of the
wild-type promoter in the presence or absence of cotransfected p53.
Repression of AFP gene transcription in vitro by p53 protein. Activation of gene expression by p53 protein has been reconstituted in vitro by transcription in cell-free HeLa extracts (18, 43). We have examined whether p53 mediates a direct repression of AFP expression in a hepatoma background in the absence of protein synthesis by in vitro transcription of AFP/lacZ constructs in HepG2 human hepatoma transcription extract (Fig. 2A). Addition of recombinant p53 protein to a cell-free transcription assay of AFP/lacZ DNA has profound effects on AFP-driven expression, which are specific for the p53 DNA binding site. As amounts of recombinant p53 protein were increased, AFP/lacZ transcription is largely diminished (lanes 3 to 6, compare to lanes 2 and 7). Addition of buffer only or buffer plus carrier protein BSA had no effect on the level of transcription (lanes 2 and 7, compare to lane 1).
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Developmental, postnatal repression of AFP correlates with p53 activation. Within 2 weeks of birth, abundant AFP expression is dramatically reduced to nearly undetectable levels (75). We prepared nuclear extracts of developmentally staged hepatic tissue to determine whether AFP silencing in vivo was concomitant with activation of p53. Western blot analysis of these extracts with antibody probes specific for AFP, p53, and p21 proteins was performed (Fig. 3A). As the abundance of p53 protein increases with time of development, AFP protein becomes undetectable (lanes 1 to 3). P53 protein levels are not only increased but activated for downstream transcription as well, as illustrated by the induction of p21 protein expression at 2 weeks of age (lane 2). Previous studies of hepatic-specific p21 overexpression in a transgenic mouse model revealed a critical role for p21 in normal hepatic development, affecting postnatal decreases in cellular proliferation (83). Interestingly, p21 protein is easily detectable early in postnatal development (lane 2) but not in extracts of fully differentiated adult liver tissue (lane 3). We have not determined whether the suggestion of slower-migrating forms of p53 protein on an SDS-polyacrylamide gel, which change over time of development, represents posttranslational modification of the p53 protein.
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DNA damage and hypoxic stress result in reduced AFP expression. To further address the reliability of the cell culture model and confirm the 1:1 correlation between p53 activation and AFP repression, we examined the physiological induction of p53 by using two well-established models of cellular stress. Incubation of Hepa 1-6 cells in actinomycin D as previously described (59) activated the p53 protein (lanes 5 and 6). This DNA damage-induced activation of p53 resulted in increased p21 expression and repression of endogenous AFP levels. Hepa 1-6 cells appear to express a low level of endogenous p53 that is fully capable of transactivation (and transrepression) in response to DNA damage. It is unlikely that AFP repression is the direct result of downstream p21 protein synthesis, as indicated by our in vitro transcription results showing p53-mediated repression of AFP by DNA binding.
One of the physiological responses of cells to reduced oxygen levels is the induction of p53 (26, 27). The mediators of the hypoxic signal in the activation of p53 have not been identified, but the ability of a cell's redox state to influence p53 activity is well established (33, 43). A severalfold accumulation of wild-type p53 protein under hypoxic conditions (27), as well as activation of latent p53 pools by the redox/repair protein Ref-1, occur in vivo (43). Here we show that exposure of Hepa 1-6 hepatoma cells transfected with AFP/lacZ reporter to reduced oxygen conditions resulted in inhibition of AFP expression (Fig. 3B). AFP repression under hypoxic conditions (Fig. 3B, solid lines) versus normoxic (dashed lines) was apparent in each experimental transfection study. In the presence of 1% oxygen (minus transfected exogenous p53 [filled circles, solid line]), AFP-driven reporter gene expression decreased over time, ending in a 3.7-fold inhibition within 24 h. Transfected cells which received exogenous p53 displayed reduced AFP expression over this time period to the same degree (3.5-fold [open squares, solid line]). Physiological induction of p53 protein activity likely resulted in additive repression of AFP with exogenously expressed p53, rather than through a cooperative potential redox activation of overexpressed, latent p53 within this time period. Control transfection of mutant p53 unable to bind DNA (Fig. 3B, open circles solid line) slightly activated AFP gene expression early in the time-course as previously determined (Fig. 1B). Activation of AFP was then attenuated over the entire time course, a result most likely due to increased activation of endogenous p53 protein (Fig. 3B). When individual times are compared to each other, the 24-h time point samples displayed an increased activation ratio comparing p53 mut- to (minus p53)-transfected cultures at time equal zero. Thus, overexpression of mutated p53 negates repression of AFP expression and supports the model that repression is by p53 action. Physiological p53 induction concomitant with AFP repression underscores that overexpression and squelching of transactivators of AFP are not likely causes of apparent repression. These results support the role of p53 protein as an actively repressing factor in the regulation of AFP expression, rather than as an artifactual result of p53 overexpression.HNF-3 activates AFP expression in opposition to p53-mediated
repression.
Transfection and expression of HNF-3 in hepatoma
cells activates AFP-driven gene expression (Fig.
4). Activation of AFP increased from
approximately 13-fold at the lowest concentration up to nearly 30-fold
as greater amounts of HNF-3 expression vector were introduced. Cotransfection with a wild-type p53 expression clone markedly reduced
this activation. Reduction of HNF-3 activated expression was p53
concentration dependent and relatively linear over the range analyzed.
Substitution of mutant p53KH in these transfection studies reveals that
repression is specific to p53 protein capable of binding to DNA.
Further support for p53KH acting as a dominant-negative factor in these
transfections is lent by an apparent superactivation of AFP-driven
expression with HNF-3 and p53KH cotransfection. As we have shown
above (Fig. 3A) that Hepa 1-6 cells express a low level of endogenous
p53 that is fully capable of activation, it is likely that p53KH
squelches the activity of endogenous p53 in these cells.
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Both recombinant HNF-3 and p53 bind the repressor region
specifically.
We have performed EMSA with double-stranded
oligonucleotides (860 to 830 of the mouse AFP gene; Fig. 1A)
containing the overlapping HNF-3/p53 binding sites. Incubation of
32P-labeled 860/830 oligonucleotide with recombinant
p53 protein (Fig. 5A) and recombinant
HNF-3 protein (Fig. 5B) reveals specific binding of the proteins to
their putative sites within the AFP repressor domain. Addition of a
C-terminal-specific monoclonal antibody for p53 (PAb421; Pharmingen) or
in vitro modification by phosphorylation activates latent p53 tumor
suppressor protein for DNA binding and is required for DNA binding of
bacterially expressed p53 protein (39, 40, 60). The 1.0 M
heparin-Sepharose fraction of recombinant p53 protein was activated for
DNA binding by either in vitro phosphorylation by casein kinase II
(lanes 3, 4, and 5) or by incubation with PAb421 antibody (lanes 2 and 4). Phosphorylation by casein kinase II did not affect the ability of p53 to interact with the C-terminal specific antibody (lane 4).
Kinase-treated recombinant p53 protein was employed in further in vitro analyses as described below in order to avoid the possible influence of antibody addition on experimental outcome and
interpretation.
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protein (88) bound to
the 860/830 region of the AFP gene with high specificity (Fig. 5B).
The protein-DNA complex (lane 1) was competed by a 100-fold molar
excess of cold, unlabeled 860/830 oligonucleotide (lane 2).
Similarly, the HNF-3/DNA complex was competed by a consensus HNF-3 site
(lane 4). Specificity was tested by competition with a 100-fold molar
excess of a p53 consensus binding site oligomer (lane 3) and the C/EBP
consensus binding site (lane 5). Neither of these DNA oligomers
competed effectively for HNF-3 binding to the AFP 860/830 region,
demonstrating the nucleotide specificity of HNF-3 binding.
p53 and HNF-3 bind to overlapping sites in a mutually
exclusive manner.
Proteins binding in close apposition to
each other at composite regulatory elements can act
in an additive or cooperative manner or, due to mutually exclusive
binding, may direct opposing expression patterns. HNF-3 has
been previously demonstrated to bind a composite HNF-3/NF1
DNA binding site and cooperate with NF1 protein in the
activation of the mouse albumin enhancer (42). Since fully
one-half of the 5' p53 dimer binding site overlaps five of seven
nucleotides comprising the consensus HNF-3 binding site, we examined
whether p53 and HNF-3 could occupy this site simultaneously (Fig.
5C).
protein interfered with
formation of the p53-DNA complex (lanes 2 to 4; 3, 6, and 12 ng,
respectively). Clearly, the presence of p53 protein in these reactions
is inhibitory to the binding of HNF-3. An equivalent amount of
HNF-3 protein as used in lane 5 (3 ng) bound with greatly reduced
avidity in the presence of p53 protein (lane 2). An
approximately 80-fold-higher molar amount of HNF-3 protein was
required to completely interfere with p53 protein binding to the
860/830 oligomer (lane 4).
The results of in vitro protein-DNA binding show (i) that recombinant
p53 and HNF-3 proteins bind to the 860/830 DNA element individually, (ii) that this binding is not cooperative or additive (i.e., no larger-molecular-weight complexes are formed with the DNA)
but rather favors the binding of one factor or the other but not both,
and (iii) that p53 protein displays a much higher binding affinity
in competition with HNF-3 for the same AFP regulatory element.
Coexpression of p300 amplifies repression of AFP gene expression by p53. Our experiments described thus far show that p53 mediates repression of AFP expression by a DNA sequence-specific interaction with the developmental repressor region. Further support for this mechanism is provided by the coexpression of p300 in transfection studies (Fig. 6). The acetylation of p53 protein by the cofactors CBP and p300 has recently been shown to potentiate transactivation (3, 31, 52). Acetylation modifies the C-terminal 30 amino acids of p53, the same regulatory domain modified by phosphorylation, resulting in enhancement of DNA binding ability (30). An increase in the ability of p53 to bind DNA is directly reflected in an amplified expression of genes activated by p53. Conversely, if p53 causes repression of gene expression upon DNA binding, then acetylation should increase the repression of such genes.
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A mechanism for p53-mediated AFP expression. In order to further dissect the means by which p53 represses AFP gene expression, we employed a cellular background devoid of endogenous hepatic transactivators. Transient-transfection experiments were performed with NIH 3T3 fibroblast cells which do not express AFP (63). Coexpression of p53 (WT p53) and the AFP/lacZ reporter vectors in this cellular background leads to an activation rather than repression of AFP-driven expression (Fig. 7). Addition of p53KH mutant protein to transfections of AFP/lacZ in fibroblasts did not activate AFP expression (p53KH). Thus, we found that introduction of p53 into cells lacking HNF-3 and other hepatic-enriched factors leads to AFP activation rather than repression.
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A combinatorial mechanism of AFP repression. Our studies support a model in which p53 protein represses AFP expression by site-specific binding to an overlapping p53/HNF-3 response element. Mutation of p53 protein or deletion of the target binding site abrogated repression of AFP both in cell culture and in vitro. Downregulation of AFP expression occurred under conditions of physiological induction or overexpression of p53 and was amplified by coexpression with p300. Recapitulation of AFP-specific repression in vitro indicates that regulation of AFP transcription is direct and does not require protein synthesis of downstream mediators.
Repression of transcription can be broken down into passive and active modes, though negative regulation is generally a combination of distinct mechanisms (reviewed in references 29, 34, and 49). Our studies show p53-mediated repression of AFP in hepatoma cells conforms to this generality of combinatorial regulation. Simple, passive exclusion of an activator from a common DNA binding site is supported by both in vitro DNA binding data and regulatory studies. In vitro analysis of recombinant protein binding revealed that p53 has a higher binding affinity for the overlapping HNF-3/p53 regulatory element and interferes with HNF-3 interaction at this site. p53 functions as a dose-dependent inhibitor of HNF-3-activated AFP gene expression in hepatoma transfections. Modulation of activator or repressor binding affinities via ligand binding, heterodimer composition changes, corepressor interaction, or posttranslational modification can alter competition for a regulatory element. A role for posttranslational modification in activating p53 DNA binding and function has been demonstrated in several instances, including p53 acetylation. Expression of p300/CBP histone acetyltransferase has been shown to enhance activation of transfected p53-regulated reporters (3, 30, 31, 52). Our studies also provide support for synergy between p300 and p53 in regulation, in this case by amplification of p53-mediated repression of AFP expression in the presence of p300.An active mode of transcription repression. Active interference with transcription through p53 binding to the repressor site is supported by the four- to fivefold downregulation of basal AFP/lacZ expression in hepatoma cells. AFP gene expression is regulated by multiple factors binding a complex promoter and enhancer(s) (6, 21, 23, 81, 82, 89). A number of these factors are tissue specific or hepatic enriched, including HNF-3, which we show binds and activates AFP transcription from one site within the repressor region. Consensus HNF-3 binding sites also reside within the proximal promoter and enhancer. We find that p53 expression effectively silences the majority of HNF-3-mediated activation.
We are currently investigating whether this active mode of repression is due to corepressor complex formation within hepatic cells. Our studies employing cotransfection of the mutant form of p53 alongside HNF-3 show a superactivation by HNF-3 in the presence of mutant p53. One interpretation of this result is that mutation of p53 within the DNA binding domain does not interfere with corepressor-p53 interaction. These corepressor proteins could be titrated by interaction with mutant p53, resulting in higher activation by HNF-3, as well as increased expression of the AFP-driven reporter in the absence of HNF-3. p53 may be functioning in active repression of transcription by acting as a tethering agent for corepressors of transcription. This mode of action is similar to p53-mediated docking of the active repressor adenovirus E1B 55K protein, which directly downregulates genes containing p53 binding sites (86).Tissue specificity of AFP repression. Regulatory response to p53 activation can be determined by cell-type-specific trans-acting factors, as illustrated by DNA damage-induced cell cycle arrest versus apoptosis (38, 54, 69) or by DNA sequence context, such as the transcription control of HBV genes (64). In the presence of the HBV enhancer, p53 binds a consensus site and represses transcription independently of the cellular background. These studies suggest that HBV enhancer binding proteins and p53 bind DNA, activating transcription when the regulatory elements are uncoupled and repressing expression of the HBV X promoter when adjacent (64). AFP repression by p53 appears to be both DNA context dependent, repressing HNF-3 activation possibly by DNA binding exclusion, and cell type specific through likely interaction with corepressors of activity.
Our experiments with NIH 3T3 cells that lack endogenous hepatic transactivators recapitulate only the passive mode of AFP repression. While p53 was able to repress HNF-3-activated AFP transcription in both tissue-specific and nonspecific backgrounds, baseline AFP/lacZ transcription was activated by p53 in fibroblast transfections rather than repressed. p53-mediated activation of AFP expression in NIH 3T3 cells which lack HNF-3 argues against recruitment of ubiquitous, general repressors of transcription by p53 binding. This mode of transcription repression has been described for general transcription repressor NC2 tethering via DNA-bound AREB6 Zn-finger/homeodomain protein (41). However, our results indicate that repression of AFP may involve tissue-specific corepressors of transcription that are targeted by p53 binding within the developmental repressor domain. EMSA studies of hepatoma and adult mouse liver nuclear extracts reveal multiple protein-DNA complexes formed at the overlapping HNF-3/p53 site, which can be chased to higher-molecular-weight protein-DNA complexes with increasing concentrations of extract. The protein composition of these complexes vary between cells which do not express AFP and those that do (data not shown).p53 activity and AFP expression. A biological paradigm for the molecular consequences of diminished p53 function lies in AT patients. Numerous clinical studies of ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) patients since 1972 describe a nearly 1:1 correlation between the AT disorder and aberrant production of AFP protein found at high concentrations in patient serum (47, 77). This has been ascribed to abnormal tissue differentiation, since cases of HCC are not unusually high in AT patients. Whether the developmental problems of AT patients and mice with embryonic deletion of the ATM (mutated in AT) gene are part of the emerging story of p53 activity in normal development remains to be elucidated (4, 84). In certain pathways, it appears that the ATM protein acts upstream of p53 protein, although AT cells respond to extensive DNA damage with slower kinetics of apoptosis but completely lack cell cycle arrest (reviewed in references 17 and 35).
The link that we have shown between DNA damage and stress-induced p53 activity on the one hand and AFP repression on the other underscores the pleiotropic roles of p53 in development and stress response. We find that the activation of p53 occurs through increased protein abundance during a time course of hepatic development. Several studies have revealed the importance of p53 activation during spermatogenesis (66) and the differentiation of epidermal (80), kidney (24), muscle, hematopoietic (70), and neural cells (14). Mice overexpressing p53, whether by a forced overproduction of the protein (24) or through creation of MDM2 null embryos (10), do not develop normally. These studies emphasize a requirement for tight control of p53 activity during development and differentiation. Whether p53 plays a broader role in hepatic differentiation, concomitant with AFP gene repression, is unknown. The molecular mechanisms of differentiation-coupled repression of AFP expression and tumorigenic activation of expression are complex and likely combinatorial. One regulatory mechanism revealed by these studies is the p53-mediated repression of transcription through specific DNA binding. Binding of p53 physically excludes a tissue-specific activator of AFP transcription and may tether a complex of tissue-specific corepressors which actively interfere with gene expression. Aberrant expression of AFP during tumorigenesis may require functional inactivation of the p53 protein.| |
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We are especially grateful to Jorge Bezerra for invaluable cooperation in the preparation of developmentally staged hepatic extracts, to Ling Sang for expert technical assistance, and to J. Ma, K. Fukasawa, A. Nardulli, and N. Denko for critical comments. We are indebted to G. Lozano, K. Zaret, P. Brindle, B. Spear, and B. Aronow for materials which were essential for these studies.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant GM53683 and an American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award to M.C.B. Support to A.J.C. through an NIH National Research Service Award (CA73083) is also gratefully acknowledged.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 670524, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0524. Phone: (513) 558-5541. Fax: (513) 558-8474. E-mail: Michelle.Barton{at}UC.edu.
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