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Differentiated embryo-chondrocyte expressed gene 1 regulates p53-dependent cell survival versus cell death through macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1.


ABSTRACT: Activation of p53 upon DNA damage induces an array of target genes, leading to cell cycle arrest and/or apoptosis. However, the mechanism by which the cell fate is controlled by p53 remains to be clarified. Previously, we showed that DEC1, a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor and a target of p53, is capable of inducing cell cycle arrest and mediating DNA damage-induced premature senescence. Here, we found that ectopic expression of DEC1 inhibits, whereas knockdown of DEC1 enhances, DNA damage-induced cell death. Surprisingly, we showed that the anti-cell-death activity of DEC1 is p53 dependent, but DEC1 does not directly modulate p53 expression. Instead, we showed that DEC1 inhibits the ability of p53 to induce macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1), but not other prosurvival/proapoptotic targets, including p21 and Puma. Importantly, we showed that upon binding to their respective response elements on the MIC-1 promoter, DEC1 and p53 physically interact on the MIC-1 promoter via the basic helix-loop-helix domain in DEC1 and the tetramerization domain in p53, which likely weakens the DNA-binding activity of p53 to the MIC-1 promoter. Finally, we found that depletion of MIC-1 abrogates the ability of DEC1 to attenuate DNA damage-induced cell death. Together, we hypothesize that DEC1 controls the response of p53-dependent cell survival vs. cell death to a stress signal through MIC-1.

SUBMITTER: Qian Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3396538 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Differentiated embryo-chondrocyte expressed gene 1 regulates p53-dependent cell survival versus cell death through macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1.

Qian Yingjuan Y   Jung Yong-Sam YS   Chen Xinbin X  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120621 28


Activation of p53 upon DNA damage induces an array of target genes, leading to cell cycle arrest and/or apoptosis. However, the mechanism by which the cell fate is controlled by p53 remains to be clarified. Previously, we showed that DEC1, a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor and a target of p53, is capable of inducing cell cycle arrest and mediating DNA damage-induced premature senescence. Here, we found that ectopic expression of DEC1 inhibits, whereas knockdown of DEC1 enhances, DNA  ...[more]

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