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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 23, Pages 20475-20479Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M213159200
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA43460] Funding Source: Medline
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Ionizing radiation damages chromosomal DNA and activates p53-dependent transcription in mammalian cells. The Chk2 protein kinase has been hypothesized to be the primary mediator of this response. We have rigorously tested this hypothesis in human cells by disrupting the CHK2 gene through homologous recombination. We found that the p53 response was unexpectedly robust in such cells. Phosphorylation of p53 at serine 20, accumulation of p53 protein, transcriptional activation of p53 target genes, and cell cycle arrest and apoptotic death phenotypes were completely intact regardless of CHK2 status. Our results indicate that Chk2 kinase is not required for p53 activation in human cells and explain why CHK2 and TP53 mutations can jointly occur in human tumors.
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