The ΔNp63α Phosphoprotein Binds the p21 and 14-3-3σ Promoters In Vivo and Has Transcriptional Repressor Activity That Is Reduced by Hay-Wells Syndrome-Derived Mutations

Author:

Westfall Matthew D.1,Mays Deborah J.1,Sniezek Joseph C.1,Pietenpol Jennifer A.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biochemistry, Center in Molecular Toxicology, The Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232

Abstract

ABSTRACT p63 is a recently identified homolog of p53 that is found in the basal layer of several stratified epithelial tissues such as the epidermis, oral mucosa, prostate, and urogenital tract. Studies with p63 −/− mice and analysis of several human autosomal-dominant disorders with germ line p63 mutations suggest p63 involvement in maintaining epidermal stem cell populations. The p63 gene encodes six splice variants with reported transactivating or dominant-negative activities. The goals of the current study were to determine the splice variants that are expressed in primary human epidermal keratinocytes (HEKs) and the biochemical activity p63 has in these epithelial cell populations. We found that the predominant splice variant expressed in HEKs was ΔNp63α, and it was present as a phosphorylated protein. During HEK differentiation, ΔNp63α and p53 levels decreased, while expression of p53 target genes p21 and 14-3-3σ increased. ΔNp63α had transcriptional repressor activity in vitro, and this activity was reduced in ΔNp63α proteins containing point mutations, corresponding to those found in patients with Hay-Wells syndrome. Further, we show that ΔNp63α and p53 can bind the p21 and 14-3-3σ promoters in vitro and in vivo, with decreased binding of p63 to these promoters during HEK differentiation. These data suggest that ΔNp63α acts as a transcriptional repressor at select growth regulatory gene promoters in HEKs, and this repression likely plays an important role in the proliferative capacity of basal keratinocytes.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Cell Biology,Molecular Biology

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