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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 15, Pages 9908-9924Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku705
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- National Science Council [101-2311-B-010-006, 101-2321-B-010-016, 102-2321-B-010-014]
- Taipei Veteran's General Hospital [100-G7-5-1]
- Cheng Hsin General Hospital [101F195CY21]
- Ministry of Education, Aiming for the Top University Plan in Taiwan
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Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNPK) is an RNA/DNA-binding protein involved in chromatin remodeling, RNA processing and the DNA damage response. In addition, increased hnRNPK expression has been associated with tumor development and progression. A variety of post-translational modifications of hnRNPK have been identified and shown to regulate hnRNPK function, including phosphorylation, ubiquitination, sumoylation and methylation. However, the functional significance of hnRNPK arginine methylation remains unclear. In the present study, we demonstrated that the methylation of two essential arginines, Arg296 and Arg299, on hnRNPK inhibited a nearby Ser302 phosphorylation that was mediated through the pro-apoptotic kinase PKC delta. Notably, the engineered U2OS cells carrying an Arg296/Arg299 methylation-defective hnRNPK mutant exhibited increased apoptosis upon DNA damage. While such elevated apoptosis can be diminished through addition with wild-type hnRNPK, we further demonstrated that this increased apoptosis occurred through both intrinsic and extrinsic pathways and was p53 independent, at least in part. Here, we provide the first evidence that the arginine methylation of hnRNPK negatively regulates cell apoptosis through PKC delta-mediated signaling during DNA damage, which is essential for the antiapoptotic role of hnRNPK in apoptosis and the evasion of apoptosis in cancer cells.
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