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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 287, Issue 45, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.386755
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Embryonic stem cell self-renewal properties are attributed to critical amounts of OCT4A, but little is known about its post-translational regulation. Sequence analysis revealed that OCT4A contains five putative ERK1/2 phosphorylation sites. Consistent with the hypothesis that OCT4A is a putative ERK1/2 substrate, we demonstrate that OCT4A interacts with ERK1/2 by using both in vitro GST pulldown and in vivo co-immunoprecipitation assays. MS analysis identified phosphorylation of OCT4A at Ser-111. To investigate the possibility that ERK1/2 activation can enhance OCT4A degradation, we analyzed endogenous ubiquitination in cells transfected with FLAG-OCT4A alone or with constitutively active MEK1 (MEK1(CA)), and we observed that the extent of OCT4 ubiquitination was clearly increased when MEK1(CA) was coexpressed and that this increase was more evident after MG132 treatment. These results suggest an increase in OCT4A ubiquitination downstream of MEK1 activation, and this could account for the protein loss observed after FGF2 treatment and MEK1(CA) transfection. Understanding and controlling the mechanism by which stem cells balance self-renewal would substantially advance our knowledge of stem cells.
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