Translational Control of Cell Fate: Availability of Phosphorylation Sites on Translational Repressor 4E-BP1 Governs Its Proapoptotic Potency
AUTOR(ES)
Li, Shunan
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Translational control has been recently added to well-recognized genomic, transcriptional, and posttranslational mechanisms regulating apoptosis. We previously found that overexpressed eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) rescues cells from apoptosis, while ectopic expression of wild-type eIF4E-binding protein 1 (4E-BP1), the most abundant member of the 4E-BP family of eIF4E repressor proteins, activates apoptosis—but only in transformed cells. To test the possibility that nontransformed cells require less cap-dependent translation to suppress apoptosis than do their transformed counterparts, we intensified the level of translational repression in nontransformed fibroblasts. Here, we show that inhibition of 4E-BP1 phosphorylation by rapamycin triggers apoptosis in cells ectopically expressing wild-type 4E-BP1 and that expression of 4E-BP1 phosphorylation site mutants potently activates apoptosis in a phosphorylation site-specific manner. In general, proapoptotic potency paralleled repression of cap-dependent translation. However, this relationship was not a simple monotone. As repression of cap-dependent translation intensified, apoptosis increased to a maximum value. Further repression resulted in less apoptosis—a state associated with activation of translation through internal ribosomal entry sites. These findings show: that phosphorylation events govern the proapoptotic potency of 4E-BP1, that 4E-BP1 is proapoptotic in normal as well as transformed fibroblasts, and that malignant transformation is associated with a higher requirement for cap-dependent translation to inhibit apoptosis. Our results suggest that 4E-BP1-mediated control of apoptosis occurs through qualitative rather than quantitative changes in protein synthesis, mediated by a dynamic interplay between cap-dependent and cap-independent processes.
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