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Brn-3b enhances the pro-apoptotic effects of p53 but not its induction of cell cycle arrest by cooperating in trans-activation of bax expression

Budhram-Mahadeo, VS; Bowen, S; Lee, S; Perez-Sanchez, C; Ensor, E; Morris, PJ; Latchman, DS; (2006) Brn-3b enhances the pro-apoptotic effects of p53 but not its induction of cell cycle arrest by cooperating in trans-activation of bax expression. Nucleic Acids Research , 34 (22) pp. 6640-6652. 10.1093/nar/gkl878. Green open access

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Abstract

The Brn-3a and Brn-3b transcription factor have opposite and antagonistic effects in neuroblastoma cells since Brn-3a is associated with differentiation whilst Brn-3b enhances proliferation in these cells. In this study, we demonstrate that like Brn-3a, Brn-3b physically interacts with p53. However, whereas Brn-3a repressed p53 mediated Bax expression but cooperated with p53 to increase p21(cip1/waf1), this study demonstrated that co-expression of Brn-3b with p53 increases trans-activation of Bax promoter but not p21(cip1/waf1). Consequently co-expression of Brn-3b with p53 resulted in enhanced apoptosis, which is in contrast to the increased survival and differentiation, when Brn-3a is co-expressed with p53. For Brn-3b to cooperate with p53 on the Bax promoter, it requires binding sites that flank p53 sites on this promoter. Furthermore, neurons from Brn-3b knock-out (KO) mice were resistant to apoptosis and this correlated with reduced Bax expression upon induction of p53 in neurons lacking Brn-3b compared with controls. Thus, the ability of Brn-3b to interact with p53 and modulate Bax expression may demonstrate an important mechanism that helps to determine the fate of cells when p53 is induced.

Type: Article
Title: Brn-3b enhances the pro-apoptotic effects of p53 but not its induction of cell cycle arrest by cooperating in trans-activation of bax expression
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl878
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl878
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Family transcription factor, encoding synaptic proteins, neuronal process outgrowth, human neuroblastoma-cells, domain factor brn-3b, breast-cancer cells, in-vivo, gene-expression, sensory neurons, differential regulation
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Pre-clinical and Fundamental Science
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > ICH - Directors Office
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476424
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