Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 21, Issue 34, Pages 5335-5345Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1205665
Keywords
DNA repair; BADD45; JNK
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA 93640] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 60945] Funding Source: Medline
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The breast cancer suppressor protein, BRCA1 plays an important role in mediating cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and DNA responses to DNA damage signals. In this study, we show that BRCA1 level is downregulated during UV-induced apoptosis by caspase-3 mediated cleavage. Cleavage of BRCA1 by caspase-3 produced a fragment that contained the C-terminal of the molecule. Accordingly, treatment of cells with caspase-3 inhibitor or mutation of a specific caspase-3 cleavage site (DLLD) at amino acid 1151 - 1154 of BRCA1 abolished cleavage and consequential accumulation of the BRCA1 C-terminal fragment. Whereas expression of the non-cleavable BRCA1 (D/A 1154) mutant conferred the resistance phenotype to UV-induced cell death, expression of the cleaved BRCA1 C-terminus induced cell death in the absence of UV. Examination of the mechanism of C-terminus-induced cell death revealed that the cleaved fragment triggers the apoptotic response through activation of BRCA1 downstream effectors, GADD45 and JNK. Altogether, results of our study demonstrate a functional role for caspase-3 mediated cleavage of BRCA1 during UV-induced apoptosis.
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