Affiliation:
1. Department of Biochemistry, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Adenovirus E1A proteins influence cell growth and phenotype through physical interactions with cellular proteins that regulate basic processes such as cell cycle progression, DNA synthesis, and differentiation. p120
E4F
is a low-abundance cellular transcription factor that represses the adenovirus E4 promoter and is regulated by E1A, through a phosphorylation-induced reduction of its DNA binding activity, to permit activation of the E4 promoter during early infection. To determine the normal biological role of p120
E4F
, we assessed its ability to influence fibroblast cell growth and transformation. p120
E4F
suppressed NIH 3T3 fibroblast colony formation but had little effect when coexpressed with E1A and/or activated
ras
. Cells that overexpressed p120
E4F
were inhibited in their ability to enter S phase, had elevated levels of the cdk inhibitor p21
WAF1
, and reduced cyclin D-cdk4/6 kinase activity. The increase of p21
WAF1
levels occurred through a p53-independent posttranscriptional mechanism that included a three- to fourfold increase in the half-life of p21
WAF1
protein. Coexpression of activated
ras
with p120
E4F
stimulated cyclin D1 expression, elevated cyclin D-cdk4/6 kinase activity, and accelerated cell growth. These data suggest an important role for p120
E4F
in normal cell division and demonstrate that p21
WAF1
can be regulated by protein turnover.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
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