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Impact of cadmium, cobalt and nickel on sequence-specific DNA binding of p63 and p73 in vitro and in cells

Authors

ADÁMIK Matej BAŽANTOVÁ Pavla NAVRÁTILOVÁ Lucie POLÁŠKOVÁ Alena PEČINKA Petr HOLAŇOVÁ Lucie TICHÝ Vlastimil BRÁZDOVÁ Marie

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Citation
web http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.11.027
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.11.027
Keywords p53 protein family; Sequence-specific DNA binding; Heavy metals; Cadmium; Cobalt; Nickel
Description Site-specific DNA recognition and binding activity belong to common attributes of all three members of tumor suppressor p53 family proteins: p53, p63 and p73. It was previously shown that heavy metals can affect p53 conformation, sequence-specific binding and suppress p53 response to DNA damage. Here we report for the first time that cadmium, nickel and cobalt, which have already been shown to disturb various DNA repair mechanisms, can also influence p63 and p73 sequence-specific DNA binding activity and transactivation of p53 family target genes. Based on results of electrophoretic mobility shift assay and luciferase reporter assay, we conclude that cadmium inhibits sequence-specific binding of all three core domains to p53 consensus sequences and abolishes transactivation of several promoters (e.g. BAX and MDM2) by 50 mu M concentrations. In the presence of specific DNA, all p53 family core domains were partially protected against loss of DNA binding activity due to cadmium treatment. Effective cadmium concentration to abolish DNA-protein interactions was about two times higher for p63 and p73 proteins than for p53. Furthermore, we detected partial reversibility of cadmium inhibition for all p53 family members by EDTA. DTT was able to reverse cadmium inhibition only for p53 and p73. Nickel and cobalt abolished DNA-p53 interaction at sub-millimolar concentrations while inhibition of p63 and p73 DNA binding was observed at millimolar concentrations. In summary, cadmium strongly inhibits p53, p63 and p73 DNA binding in vitro and in cells in comparison to nickel and cobalt. The role of cadmium inhibition of p53 tumor suppressor family in carcinogenesis is discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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