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Molecular and Cellular Biology, March 2000, p. 1784-1796, Vol. 20, No. 5
Departments of Pharmacology and Molecular
Toxicology and Cell Biology, Cancer Center, University of Massachusetts
Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655
Received 19 August 1999/Returned for modification 24 September
1999/Accepted 23 November 1999
PML fuses with retinoic acid receptor Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)
arises as a result of chromosomal translocation involving the retinoic
acid (RA) receptor PML belongs to a family of proteins characterized by the presence of a
RING finger domain (8). RING finger proteins are implicated
in transcriptional regulation, and some members of the RING family are
associated directly with chromatin (53). Ablation and
overexpression experiments suggest an important role of PML in the
regulation of cell growth, hematopoietic cell differentiation, tumorigenesis, apoptosis, and RA signaling (44, 63). In
normal cells, PML is concentrated within 10 to 20 nuclear structures known as nuclear domains 10 (ND10), Krüppel bodies, nuclear
bodies, or PML-oncogenic domains (PODs) (2, 17, 33, 59, 65). The POD structure is disrupted in the t(15;17) translocated APL cells
(17, 33, 65), presumably through interaction of wild-type PML with PML-RAR In addition to PML, the POD contains several other proteins, including
the 100-kDa nuclear protein antigen (Sp100) (2), the small
ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO-1 [41], also known as
PML-interacting clone 1 [PIC1] [7], ubiquitin-like 1 [UBL1] [57], or sentrin [48]), and
the 140-kDa protein (Sp140) (6). Sp100 is a nuclear antigen
recognized by autoantibodies from patients with primary biliary
cirrhosis (62). Expression of both PML and Sp100 are
upregulated by interferon (23). SUMO-1 was recently identified as a ubiquitin-like protein that forms covalent conjugates with PML and Sp100 (7, 58). In addition, the CREB-binding protein (CBP) and the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor (pRB) have been
found in the PODs (35, 61). Also, the PODs are targets of
several viral proteins, which alter POD structure (11, 14, 18). Although there is evidence for POD's role in
transcriptional activation (15, 35), DNA replication
(19), apoptosis (51, 64), and viral infection
(14, 42), the precise function of PODs in these processes
remains unclear.
We have sought to understand the function of PODs through
identification of PML-interacting proteins that also localize in the
PODs. By using the yeast two-hybrid system, we identified SUMO-1 and
the Fas-binding protein Daxx (68) (J. D. Chen and R. M. Evans, unpublished data). Daxx has been shown to promote Fas-mediated apoptosis through activation of the Jun
NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) and JNK kinase kinase ASK1
(apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1) (12). Recent data
suggest that Daxx is not sufficient for Fas-mediated apoptosis, since a
Fas mutant that selectively binds to Daxx but not the Fas-adaptor death
domain-containing protein (FADD/MORT1) failed to induce apoptosis
(13). Other evidence suggests that Daxx may interact with
the centromeric protein-c (CENP-C) and may bind to a steroidogenic
factor 1 (SF-1)-like DNA element (32, 50). Therefore, the
exact mechanism by which Daxx regulates Fas-mediated apoptosis may
involve nuclear processes.
In the present study, we have characterized both biochemical and
functional interactions between Daxx and PML. Daxx resides primarily in
the cell nucleus, where it forms a complex with PML. Confocal
immunofluorescence data demonstrate that Daxx colocalizes with PML in
the PODs, and such colocalization persists in NB4 APL cells
(36) before and after treatment with atRA and
As2O3. Daxx possesses strong transcriptional
repressor activity and appears to interact directly with histone
deacetylases. Intriguingly, overexpression of PML inhibits
Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression and, in cells that lack PML,
Daxx is preferentially associated with condensed chromatin. Our data
reveal a new role for Daxx in transcriptional repression and suggest a
novel function of PML and the POD structure in the suppression of
transcriptional repression.
Yeast two-hybrid system.
The screening of PML-interacting
proteins was conducted by the yeast two-hybrid system by using the Y190
strain as previously described (16). The Gal4 DBD (amino
acids 1 to 147) fusion of full-length PML (29) was
constructed in the yeast vector pAS1 (16). The resulting
Gal4 DBD-PML fusion protein was used as bait to screen a Gal4
activation domain (AD)-fused human B-lymphocyte cDNA library in the
pACT expression vector (16). About 106 yeast
transformants were screened on selection plates containing 50 mM
3-aminotriazole (Sigma). For ligand treatment, the culture was
incubated in the presence of ligand or solvent (control) for 24 h
before measuring the Biochemical cell fractionation.
HeLa cells (2 × 106) were harvested into 500 µl of CLB buffer (10 mM
HEPES, 10 mM NaCl, 1 mM KH2PO4, 5 mM NaHCO3, 1 mM CaCl2, 0.5 mM MgCl2)-5 mM EDTA-1 mM
phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride-proteinase inhibitors. Cells were allowed
to swell for 5 min on ice, Dounce homogenized 35 times, and centrifuged
at 7,500 rpm for 5 min to pellet nuclei and debris. The supernatant
(cytosol plus plasma membrane) was then spun at 25,000 rpm for 30 min
to pellet the membrane. The nucleus-debris pellet was resuspended in 1 ml of TSE buffer (10 mM Tris, pH 7.5; 300 mM sucrose; 1 mM EDTA) and Dounce homogenized 30 times, followed by centrifugation at 5,000 rpm
for 5 min. The pellet was resuspended and washed twice to obtain the
final nucleus pellet. Equal amounts of protein in each fraction were
analyzed Western blotting.
Western blotting.
Western blotting was conducted by using
the enhanced chemiluminescence reagents according the manufacturers'
recommendation (Amersham). The affinity purified anti-Daxx polyclonal
antibodies were raised against glutathione S-transferase
(GST)-Daxx (amino acids 556 to 740) fusion protein and subsequently
purified with the GST-Daxx protein column as described earlier
(24). Anti-Gal4-DBD antibody was purchased from Santa Cruz,
and anti-HDAC1 antibody was from Upstate Biotechnology.
Co-IP.
Coimmunoprecipitation (Co-IP) was conducted according
to a standard procedure by using the protein A-agarose beads (Santa Cruz) (24). Nuclear extracts were prepared as described
earlier (3). HeLa and NB4 cells were lysed in cell lysis
buffer (0.4 M NaCl, 0.2 mM EGTA, 10% glycerol, 1% NP-40), and cell
extracts were precleared by incubating them with protein-A agarose
beads for 1 h at room temperature. The affinity-purified IP
antibodies were conjugated with protein A-agarose beads in cell lysis
buffer for 2 h at room temperature. The antibody-protein A-agarose
was collected by brief centrifugation and incubated with cell extracts (100 µg) overnight at 4°C. The precipitates were collected by centrifugation and washed five times with excess phosphate-buffered saline containing 0.1% NP-40. The final precipitate was dissolved in
sodium dodecyl sulfate A (SDS) sample buffer and analyzed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and Western blotting.
Immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy.
Cells were grown
on cover glasses (VWR Scientific), fixed in a methanol-acetic acid
(1:1) mixture on dry ice for 2 min and processed for immunofluorescence
staining as described elsewhere (17). For NB4 cells, the
cover glasses were coated with poly-L-lysine before seeding
the cells. After immunostaining, cell nuclei were stained with DAPI
(4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride hydrate) (Sigma).
Confocal microscopy was conducted with a Leica TCS SP spectral laser
scanning confocal microscope. Channel cross-talk was avoided by
reducing the intensity of the excitation laser beam in the absence of
the other excitation laser. Standard epifluorescence microscopy was
performed on an Olympus IX-70 microscope equipped with a
back-illuminated cool charge-coupled device (CCD) camera (Princeton
Instruments), and the image was processed by using the MetaMorph
software (Universal Imaging Corp.).
Transient-transfection assay.
Transient transfection was
conducted using a standard calcium phosphate precipitate method as
described earlier (3). Cultured cells were maintained in
Dulbecco modified Eagle medium or RPMI medium (for NB4 cells)
supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco). Twelve hours prior
to transfection, 2 × 104 cells were plated in each
well of 12-well plates. Transfected cells were refed with fresh media
and harvested 36 to 48 h after transfection. Transfected cells in
each well were lysed and processed for luciferase and Far-Western blot.
GST fusion proteins were expressed in
DH5 GST pull-down assay.
The GST pull-down assay was conducted
according to a protocol as described earlier (24). Briefly,
5 µg of glutathione agarose-protein beads was incubated with 5 µl
of in vitro-translated 35S-labeled protein with moderate
shaking at 4°C overnight in binding buffer (20 mM HEPES, pH 7.7; 75 mM KCl; 0.1 mM EDTA; 2.5 mM MgCl2; 0.05% NP-40; 1 mM
dithiothreitol; 1 mg of bovine serum albumin per ml). The bound protein
was washed three times with the binding buffer, and the beads were
collected by centrifugation. The bound protein was eluted in SDS sample
buffer and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and autoradiography.
Site-directed mutagenesis.
Site-directed mutagenesis was
conducted by using the Quick-Change site-directed mutagenesis kit
according to manufacturer's instruction (Stratagene). A mammalian
hemagglutinin (HA)-PML vector was used as a template, and mutagenesis
was conducted in three rounds consecutively on the same template. The
mutated construct was confirmed by DNA sequencing by using
dideoxynucleotide chain-termination reactions and Sequenase (U.S. Biochemicals).
Identification of Daxx as a PML-interacting protein.
In the
yeast two-hybrid screen, we identified a PML-interacting clone that
encodes the C-terminal 184 amino acids of Daxx (32, 50).
Yeast two-hybrid assay shows that this Daxx clone interacts with Gal4
DBD fusions of both PML and PML-RAR
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(RAR
) in the t(15;17)
translocation that causes acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). In
addition to localizing diffusely throughout the nucleoplasm, PML mainly
resides in discrete nuclear structures known as PML oncogenic domains
(PODs), which are disrupted in APL and spinocellular ataxia cells. We
isolated the Fas-binding protein Daxx as a PML-interacting protein in a
yeast two-hybrid screen. Biochemical and immunofluorescence analyses
reveal that Daxx is a nuclear protein that interacts and colocalizes
with PML in the PODs. Reporter gene assay shows that Daxx drastically
represses basal transcription, likely by recruiting histone
deacetylases. PML, but not its oncogenic fusion PML-RAR
, inhibits
the repressor function of Daxx. In addition, SUMO-1 modification of PML
is required for sequestration of Daxx to the PODs and for efficient
inhibition of Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression. Consistently,
Daxx is found at condensed chromatin in cells that lack PML. These data
suggest that Daxx is a novel nuclear protein bearing transcriptional
repressor activity that may be regulated by interaction with PML.
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(RAR
) gene on chromosome 17 fused
with either the promyelocytic leukemia gene (PML) on
chromosome 15, the promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger gene
(PLZF) on chromosome 11, the nucleophosmin/B23 (NPM) gene on chromosome 5, or the nuclear mitotic apparatus
gene (NuMA) on chromosome 11 (30, 39). The
t(15;17) translocation between PML and RAR
accounts for nearly all APL cases. This translocation creates an
oncogenic fusion protein, PML-RAR
, which contains both the
DNA-binding domain (DBD) and ligand-binding domains of RAR
and the N
terminus of PML. Transgenic mice that overexpress PML-RAR
or
PLZF-RAR
developed an APL-like phenotype (9, 21, 26),
suggesting that these fusion proteins are directly involved in APL
pathogenesis. Recent studies have focused on analyzing the functional
properties of PML-RAR
and PLZF-RAR
(20, 22, 25, 40) in
order to understand the molecular basis of leukemogenesis. Both fusion
proteins form homodimers that bind to RA response elements and interact
with the nuclear receptor corepressors SMRT (silencing mediator for
retinoid and thyroid hormone action) and N-CoR (nuclear receptor
corepressor), which in turn recruit a histone deacetylase complex
(1, 27, 40, 46). Pharmacological concentrations of
all-trans-RA (atRA) induce dissociation of the corepressors
from PML-RAR
, but not PLZF-RAR
, due to the presence of an
additional, RA-insensitive corepressor-interacting surface on PLZF.
This differential degree of dissociation of corepressors induced by
atRA correlates with the ability of histone deacetylase inhibitors and
atRA to induce terminal differentiation of these two subtypes of APL
cells. These findings indicate that abnormalities in transcriptional
repression by the oncogenic fusion proteins may be involved in leukemogenesis.
. Interestingly, the POD structure reorganizes upon
treatment with atRA or arsenic trioxide
(As2O3), a process that correlates with
differentiation of APL cells, indicating that the POD structure might
affect promyelocyte differentiation.
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-galactosidase (
-Gal) activity.
-Gal assay as
described elsewhere (38). The luciferase activity was
determined with an MLX plate luminometer (Dynex) and normalized with
the cotransfected
-Gal.
cells and purified by standard glutathione agarose beads
according to manufacturer's recommendation (Pharmacia). The purified
proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and electroblotted onto a
nitrocellulose filter in transfer buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.3; 192 mM glycine; 0.01% SDS). Proteins were denatured with 6 M guanidine
hydrochloride (GnHCl) and renatured by stepwise dilution of GnHCl.
Filters were blocked and hybridized overnight with
35S-labeled protein as described elsewhere (38).
The membrane was then washed three times with hybridization buffer, and
the bound probe was detected by autoradiography.
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but not SP100 (Fig.
1A), suggesting that Daxx may be a
PML-interacting protein. Since atRA binds to PML-RAR
in a way
similar to that of wild-type RAR
(4), we determined the
effect of atRA on interaction between Daxx and PML-RAR
(Fig. 1B).
atRA inhibits the two-hybrid interaction between Daxx and PML-RAR
efficiently and in a dose-dependent manner. The inhibition of binding
is slightly more sensitive with the long form of PML-RAR
than with
the short form, a finding consistent with the higher affinity of the
long form of PML-RAR
for atRA (4). This atRA-dependent
inhibition of binding is specific, for atRA has no effect on the
interaction between PML and Daxx while it enhances the interaction
between PML-RAR
and the coactivator RAC3 (38). Also, the
thyroid hormone triiodothyronine that does not bind PML-RAR
also has
no effect on the interaction between Daxx and PML-RAR
. These data
suggest that Daxx is a PML-interacting protein that may also associate with the oncoprotein PML-RAR
in the absence of atRA.

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FIG. 1.
Interaction between Daxx and PML in vivo. (A)
Interaction of Daxx with PML in yeast two-hybrid system. The average
-Gal activities of three transformants expressing the indicated
combinations of Gal4 AD and DBD fusion proteins were determined as
described in Materials and Methods. The AD-Daxx fusion protein contains
amino acids 556 to 740 of human Daxx. The DBD fusion proteins contain
full-length PML-1, SP100, and PML-RAR
short form, respectively. The
minus sign indicates empty vector alone. (B) atRA disrupts the
interaction between Daxx and PML-RAR
. The effect of atRA on
Daxx-PML-RAR interaction was determined after a 24-h incubation of the
culture in the presence of the indicated concentrations of respective
ligands. Columns: 1, solvent only; 2, 1 nM; 3, 10 nM; 4, 100 nM; and 5, 1,000 nM. T3, 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine. (C) Subcellular
fractionation of Daxx. HeLa cells were fractionated into cytosolic,
membrane, and nuclear fractions, and an equal amount of protein was
analyzed by Western blotting for Daxx (left panel). The distribution of
the cytoplasmic protein
-tubulin and the nuclear protein hPc2 in
each fraction was also determined by immunoblotting to validate the
fractionation. Two independent preparations of HeLa nuclear extracts
are shown. The right panel is a Coomassie blue-stained gel that shows
the relative amount of proteins in each fraction used in the Western
blot. (D) Co-IP of Daxx with PML. NB4-cell extracts were
immunoprecipitated with affinity-purified anti-Daxx and anti-PML
antibodies, and the presence of Daxx in the immunoprecipitates was
determined by immunoblotting with anti-Daxx antibodies. The antibodies
used for the IP and the Western blot (W.B.) are indicated.
Daxx forms a complex with PML in vivo.
In addition to being
diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm, PML is mainly a nuclear
protein, while Fas is a transmembrane cell surface receptor. Since Daxx
interacts with both PML and Fas, it is important to determine whether
Daxx is a nuclear or cytoplasmic protein. We analyzed the subcellular
distribution of Daxx by using biochemical fractionation followed by
Daxx immunoblotting. In this assay, Daxx cofractionates primarily with
nuclear fraction, with a minority also present in the cytosolic and
membrane fractions (Fig. 1C). Control antibodies against the
cytoplasmic protein
-tubulin and the nuclear protein polycomb hPc2
(55) show no cross-contamination between the cytoplasmic and
nuclear fractions. All of these proteins were detected in the membrane
fraction, presumably because this fraction also contains insoluble
organelles involved in protein synthesis and transportation. These
results demonstrate that Daxx resides mainly in the cell nucleus,
suggesting that Daxx may interact with PML in the nucleus.
Daxx colocalizes with PML in the PODs.
We then wished to
determine if Daxx colocalizes with PML in the PODs in order to provide
further evidence for a physiological interaction between Daxx and PML.
Confocal immunofluorescence microscopy using affinity-purified
anti-Daxx antibodies reveals discrete nuclear structures in interphase
HEp2 cells, in addition to an evenly distributed nucleoplasmic staining
(Fig. 2Aa). Double immunostaining,
together with use of anti-PML antibodies, demonstrates that the Daxx
foci colocalize perfectly with the PODs in cell nuclei (Fig. 2Aa to d).
Such colocalization occurs in many different cell types, including
HeLa, HEK293, and A549 cells and normal human fibroblasts, suggesting
that colocalization between Daxx and PML may be a common phenomenon in
different cell types. The colocalization has been confirmed by using
antibodies against different POD antigens, including SP100 and SUMO-1,
as well as under conditions that modify the POD structure, such as with
interferon, As2O3 treatments, and viral
infections (unpublished data). A three-dimensional topographic analysis
of the colocalization between Daxx and PML demonstrates an extensive
colocalization between Daxx and PML in the PODs (Fig. 2B).
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Colocalization of Daxx and PML in NB4 APL cells.
We next
analyzed the distribution of Daxx in the NB4 APL cells (Fig. 2C), in
which the PODs are disrupted into "microparticulate" structures.
Similar to PML, Daxx is also disrupted in the NB4 cells, in which it
remains colocalized with PML. The presence of PML-RAR
fusion protein
in the microparticulate structures (17) supports the
observed interaction between Daxx and PML-RAR
(Fig. 1). Upon atRA
treatment, PML-RAR
is degraded in NB4 cells (47), and
these microparticulate structures reorganize into normal size of the
PODs (17, 65), where Daxx and PML remain colocalized. The
colocalization between Daxx and PML is more evident in NB4 cells
treated with As2O3, in which larger and fewer
PODs are observed. These results suggest that Daxx and PML colocalize in APL NB4 cells, and such colocalization persists after reorganization of the PODs induced by atRA or As2O3.
Daxx represses basal transcription.
Several POD-associated
proteins, including PML, are implicated in transcriptional regulation
(for reviews see references 34 and
39). Since Daxx interacts with PML and localizes at
the PODs, we decided to test whether Daxx might regulate transcription. Transfection of the Gal4-DBD full-length Daxx fusion protein (Gal-Daxx) in HEK293 cells strongly inhibits basal transcription of the
Gal4-tk-luciferase reporter in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 3A,
top).
Western blotting using anti-Gal4 DBD antibodies confirms increased
expression of Gal-Daxx in transfected cells in the presence of higher
concentrations of DNA (Fig. 3A, bottom). Comparison of Daxx-mediated
transcriptional repression with that of PML-RAR
fusion proteins
indicates that Daxx represses as strongly as the PML-RAR
oncoprotein
(Fig. 3B). Moreover, repression by Gal-Daxx requires Gal4-binding sites
(Fig. 3C) and occurs in multiple cell types (Fig. 3D), demonstrating the specificity of the observed Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression.
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Daxx interacts with HDACs.
Histone deacetylation has been
demonstrated to play a central role in transcriptional repression by
inducing chromatin assembly and condensation (49, 66). To
determine whether histone deacetylation is required for Daxx-mediated
transcriptional repression, we analyzed the interaction between Daxx
and the three available human histone deacetylases (HDACs)
(67). The three human HDACs are highly conserved in
structure and function. All of them repress basal transcription in the
Gal4-DBD fusion assay, and all display histone deacetylase activity
(67). Far-Western analyses demonstrate interactions between
Daxx and all three GST-HDAC fusion proteins, but not GST alone, while
PML and SP100 show no interaction with any of these GST-HDACs under the
assay conditions (Fig. 4A and B and data not
shown). A positive control shows that PML
interacts efficiently with GST-PML under identical conditions (Fig.
4C). Furthermore, a Daxx mutant (amino acids 400 to 657) that possesses weak repression activity also does not interact with HDAC1 (Fig. 4C).
These data support a role for HDAC interaction in Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression. The interaction between Daxx and HDAC1 is
further confirmed in a GST pull-down assay (Fig. 4D), in which GST-HDAC1, but not GST alone, precipitates about 20% of input 35S-labeled Daxx. Moreover, an interaction between Daxx and
HDAC1 in vivo is also observed by Co-IP of HeLa nuclear extracts (Fig. 4E), in which HDAC1 coimmunoprecipitates with Daxx antibodies but not
with the preimmune serum. Together, these experiments provide strong
evidence that Daxx and HDACs interact in vitro and in vivo.
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HDAC inhibitor reverses Daxx-mediated repression. The physical interaction observed between Daxx and HDAC suggests that Daxx may recruit a HDAC corepressor complex to repress basal transcription via histone deacetylation and chromatin condensation. To provide more evidence for this possibility, we assayed the effect of a histone deacetylase inhibitor, trichostatin A (TSA), on the repressor activity of Gal-Daxx in a transient-transfection assay (Fig. 4F). As expected, TSA reverses transcriptional repression by Gal-Daxx in a dose-dependent manner, while it has little effect on Gal4-DBD alone under identical conditions. These data indicate that histone deacetylation is involved in transcriptional repression by Daxx.
Inhibition of Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression by PML.
Since Daxx was identified as a PML-interacting protein and subsequently
demonstrated to possess strong transcriptional repression activity, we
decided to investigate the role of PML in the regulation of
transcriptional repression by Daxx. To do this, Gal-Daxx was cotransfected with increasing amounts of full-length PML into HEK293
cells and the activity of the luciferase reporter was measured (Fig.
5A). As observed above, Gal-Daxx
represses reporter expression strongly when compared to the Gal4-DBD
alone (Fig. 5A, compare lanes 1 and 6). Interestingly, coexpression of
increasing amounts of PML inhibits this repression in a dose-dependent
manner, abolishing nearly all of the repressor function of Gal-Daxx
(lanes 2 to 5). This effect is specific to Gal-Daxx, for cotransfection
of PML with the Gal4-DBD alone has little effect on reporter activity (lanes 7 and 8). These data suggest that PML may inhibit Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression.
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might also regulate the function of Gal-Daxx. When either the short or
long forms of PML-RAR
were cotransfected with Gal-Daxx, the
repression activity of Gal-Daxx was unchanged (Fig. 5B). Thus, despite
the observation that both PML and PML-RAR
interact with Daxx, only
PML can inhibit the ability of Daxx to repress transcription, suggesting a differential role of PML and its oncogenic fusion protein
in regulation of Daxx function.
PML recruits Daxx to the POD.
To elucidate the mechanism by
which PML blocks Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression,
immunofluorescence microscopy was used to investigate the subcellular
localization of Gal-Daxx upon coexpression of PML. In these
experiments, HEp2 cells were transiently transfected with Gal-Daxx in
the absence or presence of HA-PML and subsequently stained with the
mouse anti-Gal4-DBD and rabbit anti-HA antibodies (Fig.
6A). When Gal-Daxx was overexpressed alone in HEp2 cells, a fairly diffuse, evenly distributed staining pattern is observed in the nucleus (Fig. 6A, panels a and b). Cotransfection of PML drastically alters the distribution of Gal-Daxx, for nearly all of the Gal-Daxx protein is recruited to the PODs, even
at very high levels of Gal-Daxx expression (Fig. 6A, panels c to f).
Examination of the localization of these enlarged PODs indicates that
they occupy the loose chromatin regions (Fig. 6Ae and f), similar to
the localization of PODs in the absence of PML overexpression. On the
contrary, cotransfection of PML does not recruit a Daxx mutant
(Gal-Daxx 1-502) lacking the PML-interacting domain to the PODs (Fig.
6A, panels g to j), suggesting the specificity of the assay. The
abilities of PML to reverse Daxx-mediated repression and to recruit
Daxx to the PODs support the hypothesis that PML may inhibit Daxx
repressor function by sequestration of Daxx to the PODs.
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PML recruits endogenous Daxx to the PODs. To address whether recruitment of Daxx to the PODs also occurs at the endogenous levels of Daxx, HA-PML was transfected into HEp2 cells alone, and the localization of endogenous Daxx was analyzed by immunofluorescence staining by using anti-Daxx antibodies (Fig. 6B). Double immunostaining with anti-PML antibodies reveals that overexpression of PML leads to accumulation of endogenous Daxx to the PODs, resulting in reduced nucleoplasmic staining (Fig. 6B, panels a to c). Recruitment of endogenous Daxx to the PODs is confirmed with anti-HA antibodies that detect only the transfected HA-PML (Fig. 6B, panels d to f). These data indicate that PML is able to recruit endogenous nucleoplasmic Daxx to the PODs.
PML does not recruit HDAC1 to the PODs. So far we have shown that Daxx interacts with HDACs (Fig. 4) and that PML recruits Daxx to the PODs (Fig. 6). Accordingly, we wished to determine the localization of HDAC and other corepressors, such as SMRT, after PML overexpression. We find that overexpression of PML does not alter the distribution of HDAC1 or SMRT (Fig. 6B, panels g to l), suggesting that PML may segregate Daxx away from the corepressor complex. These observations are consistent with a speculative mechanism by which PML may inhibit transcriptional repression of Daxx via sequestrating Daxx to the PODs.
SUMO-1 modification of PML is required for recruitment of Daxx to
the PODs.
To determine if SUMO-1 modification of PML may play a
role in Daxx interaction, we generated a PML mutant with all three
SUMO-1 modification lysine residues replaced with arginines by
site-directed mutagenesis, based on a prior study that mapped the
modification sites (31). Upon mutation of the three lysine
residues of PML, we no longer observe SUMO-1-conjugated forms of PML,
even after treatment of the transfected cells with
As2O3 and coexpression with SUMO-1 (Fig.
7A). This PML
SUMO mutant behaves
similarly to the wild-type protein in localizing to the PODs and in
enlarging the POD structure (Fig. 7B, panels a, d, and g).
Interestingly, while this SUMO-1-deficient mutant is capable of
localizing to PODs (panels b and c and panels d and e),
overaccumulation of the mutant protein in the PODs fails to recruit
nucleoplasmic Daxx (Fig. 7B, panels g to i). In contrast, many of the
enlarged PODs show reduced staining of Daxx (Fig. 7B, panels g to i),
suggesting that accumulation of the unmodified form of PML in the PODs
may lead to the disappearance of Daxx in PODs. These data suggest SUMO-1 modification as being the underlying mechanism for the observed
interaction and colocalization between Daxx and PML in vivo.
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SUMO-1 modification of PML is required for efficient inhibition of
Daxx-mediated repression.
If our hypothesis that recruitment of
Daxx to the POD is inhibitory to its transcriptional repression
activity, one would predict that the PML
SUMO mutant that fails to
recruit Daxx to the PODs will be defective in reversing transcriptional
repression by Daxx. As expected, we found that the PML
SUMO mutant
is less effective in reversing transcriptional repression by Daxx in
transient transfection (Fig. 7C). Furthermore, we found that the
wild-type PML is incapable of reversing transcriptional repression by
Gal-HDAC1 and Gal-SMRTe (Fig. 7C). These data correlate with
immunofluorescence studies demonstrating PML recruitment of Daxx, but
not HDAC or SMRT, to the POD, where it presumably is unable to repress transcription.
Daxx is associated with condensed chromatin in the absence of PML. To provide further evidence that the demonstrated functional interactions between Daxx and PML may be physiologically relevant, we screened several cell lines to find a cell type that may display abnormal localization of Daxx and/or PML. We identified the embryonic carcinoma NT2 cell line; upon staining with the anti-PML antibody, it is evident that only a subset of these cells express PML and thus contain PODs (Fig. 7D). In these cells, PML and Daxx colocalize in the PODs (panels a to d). However, in cells lacking detectable PODs, Daxx forms aggregates around the condensed chromatin (Fig. 7D, panels e to h). Therefore, the localization and thus the function of Daxx may depend on the level of PML in the cell. At low PML levels, Daxx is concentrated at condensed chromatin, where it may repress transcription. When PML levels are higher, it is able to recruit Daxx away from condensed chromatin to the PODs, where Daxx no longer represses basal transcription.
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In the present study, we have identified Daxx as a PML-interacting
protein and characterized the functional interaction between Daxx and
PML. We find a majority of Daxx in the nucleus of HeLa and HEp2 cells
where it colocalizes with PML in the PODs. In the NB4 APL cell line,
Daxx is distributed in the microparticulate structures that contain the
PML-RAR
oncoprotein (17). The repressor function of Daxx
is observed upon tethering it to a reporter gene via a heterologous DNA
binding domain, as well as from a reporter containing a natural
SF1-like promoter element. The mechanism by which Daxx represses basal
transcription is found as involving histone deacetylation, for Daxx
interacts with HDACs in vitro and in vivo and the histone deacetylase
inhibitor, TSA, blocks the repressor activity. Coexpression of PML
reverses the transcriptional repression by Daxx, which, in turn,
correlates with the recruitment of Daxx to the PODs. In addition, we
show that SUMO-1 modification of PML is required for both recruitment
of Daxx to the PODs and efficient inhibition of Daxx-mediated
repression. The physiological role of Daxx in transcriptional
repression is further supported by the observation that Daxx associates
with condensed chromatin in cells that lack PML. Together, these data
establish novel roles for Daxx, as a transcriptional repressor, and for
PML, as a protein that can potentially regulate the repressor function
of Daxx.
Consistent with our findings, Daxx has recently been identified as an inhibitor of transcriptional activation by Pax3, a member of the homeodomain family of transcription factors (28). Thus, Daxx not only is able to repress basal transcription, as suggested from our data, but can also inhibit transcriptional activation via interactions with DNA-binding transcription factors. While the exact mechanism of the inhibition of Pax3 transactivation by Daxx is unclear, our data elucidate the mechanism of Daxx-mediated repression of basal transcription as involving histone deacetylation. We observe Daxx localization to condensed chromatin in NT2 cells that lack detectable PML. Condensed chromatin is considered as a site of transcriptional repression that also includes transcriptionally silent centromeric heterochromatin. Other POD-associated proteins, such as SP100, have been demonstrated to interact with heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) and also colocalize with centromeric chromatin (10, 54). Consistent with this idea, Daxx has been shown to interact with CENP-C in a yeast two-hybrid assay and partially to colocalize with interphase centromeres (50). Also, Daxx has been shown to interact with DNA methyltransferase 1, which plays a role in gene silencing (43).
Previous studies have implicated the PODs as sites of transcriptional
activation. For example, PML has been demonstrated to interact with the
transcription coactivator CBP and recruit CBP to the PODs (15,
35). Furthermore, PML can enhance the transactivation functions
of both CBP and members of the nuclear receptor superfamily (15). PML also induces genes of the major histocompatibility complex, while PML
/
mice display reduced
transactivation responses to atRA (64, 69). Finally, the
transcriptional activator Sp140 (5, 6) and nascent RNA
(35) have been found in at least a subset of PODs. Our
findings that Daxx represses basal transcription and PML inhibits such
repressor activity suggest a new role for the POD structure in gene
regulation. The POD may enhance transcription of target genes not only
through recruitment of activators but also through the inactivation of
repressors such as Daxx via recruitment by PML. Because other
transcriptional repressors, such as PLZF, pRB, and Sp100, have also
been found in the PODs, it will be interesting to determine if PML can
regulate the repressor activities of these proteins as well.
Our observations that PML-RAR
can interact with Daxx but not inhibit
transcriptional repression by Daxx suggest a potential role for Daxx in
acute promyelocytic leukemia. Support for this hypothesis is evident in
our finding that Daxx, PML-RAR
, and PML colocalize at diffusely
distributed microparticulate structures in nucleus of the APL NB4
cells. The PML-RAR
fusion protein disrupts the POD structure in
these cells and, through its interaction with Daxx, may direct Daxx to
the microparticulate structures, where it is capable of repressing gene
expression. PML-RAR
itself is a potent transcriptional repressor,
which acts via the recruitment of the corepressors SMRT, N-CoR, and
HDAC1 (40). The POD structure is reorganized upon treatment
of these cells with atRA or arsenic trioxide, leading to the
degradation of the PML-RAR
fusion protein and colocalization of Daxx
and PML in the PODs (47). Therefore, Daxx inactivation
through localization to the PODs may be critical to the differentiation
of normal hematopoietic cells. Since expression of the PML-RAR
fusion protein disrupts the integrity of the PODs, Daxx may act as a
constitutive repressor in the APL cells, which along with the repressor
function of PML-RAR
, may block expression of specific genes that are
critical for cell differentiation and culminate in the subsequent APL pathology.
Daxx was initially identified as a Fas-binding protein that promoted
Fas-mediated apoptosis via activation of the JNK kinase cascade pathway
(12, 68). Interestingly, PML has also been found to be
involved in apoptosis triggered by Fas, tumor necrosis factor alpha,
and type I and II interferons, possibly by recruitment of the death
effector Bax and cdk inhibitor p21 (37, 51, 64). In
contrast, expression of PML-RAR
prevents apoptosis in response to
these signals (51). Our findings, together with these
reports, suggest that the regulation of Daxx repressor function by PML may also be important in programmed cell death. Consistent with this
possibility, several transcriptional repressors are known to play a
role in apoptosis. For example, the adenovirus E1B and the cellular
Bcl-2 oncoprotein block p53-mediated apoptosis by inhibiting
transcriptional repression by p53, suggesting that p53 induces
apoptosis via transcriptional repression (52, 56). In the
case of Daxx, PML may recruit it to the PODs, where it is inactivated,
thus allowing the expression of certain genes required for apoptosis.
Conversely, PML-RAR
might inhibit apoptosis in APL cells through
disruption of the PODs, thereby promoting enhanced or constitutive
repression of these target genes by Daxx and the PML-RAR
fusion
protein itself, which leads to the APL phenotype. Retinoic acid
treatment would stimulate degradation of PML-RAR
and restoration of
the POD structure (17, 47, 65). This would allow Daxx to be
inactivated through sequestration to the PODs and allow apoptosis to
proceed and would eventually lead to remission of the APL phenotype.
Because PML can shuttle between the nucleus and cytoplasm (59,
60), it is possible that Daxx may be brought along with PML to
regulate cytoplasmic events relevant to Fas-mediated apoptosis.
However, a recent study reports that the loss of Daxx leads to
extensive apoptosis in early mouse development (43), a
result seemingly opposite to other findings concerning the function of
Daxx in apoptosis (12, 13, 68). Therefore, the precise role
of Daxx in apoptosis remains to be further elucidated.
Our data provide strong evidence for the roles of PML and the PODs in regulating the function of Daxx as a transcriptional repressor. Daxx and PML interact in vivo and colocalize in the PODs. Overexpression of PML recruits Daxx to the PODs, which correlates with a complete inhibition of transcriptional repression by Daxx. Although the detailed mechanism of this inhibition of Daxx by PML remains to be determined, our data provide several possibilities. First, PML might inactivate Daxx by transporting it to the PODs and separating it from HDAC and putative target genes. In response to certain stimuli such as interferon, PML levels increase in the PODs, which, via competition for Daxx binding or conformational change of Daxx upon PML binding, might result in the dissociation of Daxx from HDAC and recruitment of Daxx, but not HDAC, to the PODs. Confinement of Daxx in the PODs would thus block access to target genes, whose expression level would then increase to at least the basal level in the absence of Daxx repression. Our findings that PML overexpression results in increased Daxx levels in the PODs, while having no effect on HDAC1 distribution or repression by HDAC1, support this possibility. Alternatively, the increased PML levels may dissociate HDAC from Daxx and recruit both Daxx and its putative target genes, but not HDAC, to the PODs. Because Daxx requires HDAC and histone deacetylation for its repressor activity, the target genes may be expressed in the absence of HDAC. The presence of transcriptional activators in the PODs would facilitate transcription of target genes. With either possibility, it is evident that the POD is involved in maintaining the balance of Daxx function, depending on the PML level. At normal, physiological levels of PML, Daxx might repress transcription at areas of condensed chromatin. However, with increased PML expression, more Daxx is recruited to the PODs, thus reducing its overall repression activity. Although the precise mechanism of the inhibition of Daxx repression by the PODs awaits further investigation, our data clearly reveal a novel connection between Daxx and PML in regulating transcriptional repression that may play a critical role in acute promyelocytic leukemia and apoptosis.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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We are grateful to W. M. Yang for the GST-HDAC constructs and to J. F. Strauss III for the SF1-tk-luc construct. We thank M. Lanotte for the NB4 cell line, N. Stuurman for 5E10 monoclonal antibodies, and A. P. Otte for hPc2 antibodies, as well as R. M. Evans for PML-1 and PML-RAR vectors and K. S. Chang for PML vector and antibodies. We also thank colleagues, including W. F. Greenlee, J. Lawrence, D. Ludlum, A. Ross, G. Stein, J. Stein, C. Sagerström, and D. Schroen, for reading and comments on the manuscript. We thank M. Bhaumik for technical assistance, J. Nickerson for confocal microscopy and M. Nadler for epifluorescence microscopy.
C.L. is a predoctoral fellow of the Army Breast Cancer Program. J.D.C. is a junior scholar of the American Society of Hematology. This work was made possible by grant PRG-98-085-01-LBC from American Cancer Society.
H.L. and C.L. contributed equally to this work.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Toxicology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655. Phone: (508) 856-1481. Fax: (508) 856-1225. E-mail: don.chen{at}umassmed.edu.
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