Functional domains of wild-type and mutant p53 proteins involved in transcriptional regulation, transdominant inhibition, and transformation suppression.

AUTOR(ES)

Unger, T

RESUMO

The wild-type (wt) p53 protein has transcriptional activation functions which may be linked to its tumor suppressor activity. Many mutant p53 proteins expressed in cancers have lost the ability to function as transcriptional activators and furthermore may inhibit wt p53 function. To study the mechanisms by which mutant forms of p53 have lost their transactivation function and can act in a dominant negative manner, a structure-function analysis of both mutant and engineered truncated forms of p53 was carried out. We show that different mutant p53 proteins found in cancers vary in the ability to inhibit the transcriptional transactivation and specific DNA binding activities of wt human p53. This transdominant effect was mediated through the carboxy-terminal oligomerization region. The role of the transactivation activity in transformation suppression by wt p53 was also examined by constructing an N-terminal deletion mutant lacking the transactivation domain. This mutant was unable to transactivate but could bind specifically to DNA. Although it was impaired in its ability to suppress transformation of primary rat embryo fibroblasts by adenovirus E1A plus activated ras, the N-terminal deletion mutant still had some suppression activity, suggesting that additional functions of p53 may contribute to transformation suppression.

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