期刊
ONCOGENE
卷 25, 期 6, 页码 940-953出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209126
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p53; Bax; non-transcriptional apoptosis; transcription; senescence; fibroblasts
Following genotoxic stress, p53 either rescues a damaged cell or promotes its elimination. The parameters determining a specific outcome of the p53 response are largely unknown. In mouse. broblasts treated with different irradiation schemes, we monitored transcriptional and non-transcriptional p53 activities and identifi. ed determinants that initiate an anti- or a pro-apoptotic p53 response within the context of p53-independent stress signaling. The primary, transcription-mediated p53 response in these cells is anti-apoptotic, while induction of p53-dependent apoptosis requires an additional, transcription-independent p53 activity, provided by high intracellular levels of activated p53. High intracellular levels of p53 were selectively generated after apoptosis-inducing high-dose UV-irradiation, and correlated with a strongly delayed upregulation of Mdm2. Following high-dose UV-irradiation, p53 accumulated in the cytoplasm and led to activation of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax. As p53-dependent Bax-activation is transcription-independent, we postulated that certain transcription-deficient mutant p53 proteins might also exert this activity. Indeed we found an endogenous, transcription-inactive mutant p53 that upon genotoxic stress induced Bax-activation in vivo. Our results demonstrate the impact and in vivo relevance of non-transcriptional mechanisms for wild- type and mutant p53-mediated apoptosis.
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