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SCIENCE
Volume 336, Issue 6078, Pages 225-228Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218395
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81130042, 31171323]
- NIH
- Ellison Medical Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24590369, 23658118] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Withdrawal of nutrients triggers an exit from the cell division cycle, the induction of autophagy, and eventually the activation of cell death pathways. The relation, if any, among these events is not well characterized. We found that starved mouse embryonic fibroblasts lacking the essential autophagy gene product Atg7 failed to undergo cell cycle arrest. Independent of its E1-like enzymatic activity, Atg7 could bind to the tumor suppressor p53 to regulate the transcription of the gene encoding the cell cycle inhibitor p21(CDKN1A). With prolonged metabolic stress, the absence of Atg7 resulted in augmented DNA damage with increased p53-dependent apoptosis. Inhibition of the DNA damage response by deletion of the protein kinase Chk2 partially rescued postnatal lethality in Atg7(-/-) mice. Thus, when nutrients are limited, Atg7 regulates p53-dependent cell cycle and cell death pathways.
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