KR-POK Interacts with p53 and Represses Its Ability to Activate Transcription of p21WAF1/CDKN1A
- Authors
- Jeon, Bu-Nam; Kim, Min-Kyeong; Choi, Won-Il; Koh, Dong-In; Hong, Sung-Yi; Kim, Kyung-Sup; Kim, Minjung; Yun, Chae-Ok; Yoon, Juyong; Choi, Kang-Yell; Lee, Kyung-Ryul; Nephew, Kenneth P.; Hur, Man-Wook
- Issue Date
- Mar-2012
- Publisher
- AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
- Citation
- CANCER RESEARCH, v.72, no.5, pp.1137 - 1148
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CANCER RESEARCH
- Volume
- 72
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 1137
- End Page
- 1148
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/27568
- DOI
- 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-2433
- ISSN
- 0008-5472
- Abstract
- Transcriptional regulation by p53 is thought to play a role in its ability to suppress tumorigenesis. However, there remain gaps in understanding about how p53 regulates transcription and how disrupting this function may promote cancer. Here we report a role in these processes for the kidney cancer-related gene KR-POK (ZBTB7C), a POZ domain and Krüppel-like zinc finger transcription factor that we found to physically interact with p53. Murine embryonic fibroblasts isolated from genetically deficient mice (Kr-pok(-/-) MEFs) exhibited a proliferative defect relative to wild-type mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF). The zinc finger domain of Kr-pok interacted directly with the DNA binding and oligomerization domains of p53. This interaction was essential for Kr-pok to bind the distal promoter region of the CDKN1A gene, an important p53 target gene encoding the cell-cycle regulator p21WAF1, and to inhibit p53-mediated transcriptional activation of CDKN1A. Kr-pok also interacted with the transcriptional corepressors NCoR and BCoR, acting to repress histone H3 and H4 deacetylation at the proximal promoter region of the CDKN1A gene. Importantly, Kr-pok(-/-) MEFs displayed an enhancement in CDKN1A transactivation by p53 during the DNA damage response, without any parallel changes in transcription of either the p53 or Kr-pok genes themselves. Furthermore, Kr-pok promoted cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo, and its expression was increased in more than 50% of the malignant human kidney cancer cases analyzed. Together, our findings define KR-POK as a transcriptional repressor with a pro-oncogenic role that relies upon binding to p53 and inhibition of its transactivation function.
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