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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2004, p. 9124-9136, Vol. 24, No. 20
0270-7306/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.20.9124-9136.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

p55, the Drosophila Ortholog of RbAp46/RbAp48, Is Required for the Repression of dE2F2/RBF-Regulated Genes

Barbie Taylor-Harding,1 Ulrich K. Binné,1 Michael Korenjak,2 Alexander Brehm,2 and Nicholas J. Dyson1*

Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts,1 Lehrstuhl für Molekularbiologie, Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany2

Received 13 May 2004/ Returned for modification 21 June 2004/ Accepted 22 July 2004

Many proteins have been proposed to be involved in retinoblastoma protein (pRB)-mediated repression, but it is largely uncertain which cofactors are essential for pRB to repress endogenous E2F-regulated promoters. Here we have taken advantage of the stream-lined Drosophila dE2F/RBF pathway, which has only two E2Fs (dE2F1 and dE2F2), and two pRB family members (RBF1 and RBF2). With RNA interference (RNAi), we depleted potential corepressors and looked for the elevated expression of groups of E2F target genes that are known to be directly regulated by RBF1 and RBF2. Previous studies have implicated histone deacetylase (HDAC) and SWI/SNF chromatin-modifying complexes in pRB-mediated repression. However, our results fail to support the idea that the SWI/SNF proteins are required for RBF-mediated repression and suggest that a requirement for HDAC activities is likely to be limited to a subset of targets. We found that the chromatin assembly factor p55/dCAF-1 is essential for the repression of dE2F2-regulated targets. The removal of p55 deregulated the expression of E2F targets that are normally repressed by dE2F2/RBF1 and dE2F2/RBF2 complexes in a cell cycle-independent manner but had no effect on the expression of E2F targets that are normally coupled with cell proliferation. The results indicate that the mechanisms of RBF regulation at these two types of E2F targets are different and suggest that p55, and perhaps p55's mammalian orthologs RbAp46 and RbAp48, have a conserved function in repression by pRB-related proteins.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research, Building 149, 13th St., Charlestown, MA 02129. Phone: (617) 726-7800. Fax: (617) 726-7808. E-mail: dyson{at}helix.mgh.harvard.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2004, p. 9124-9136, Vol. 24, No. 20
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.20.9124-9136.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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