RGD Reference Report - Combinatorial interactions of p53, activating protein-2, and YB-1 with a single enhancer element regulate gelatinase A expression in neoplastic cells. - Rat Genome Database

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Combinatorial interactions of p53, activating protein-2, and YB-1 with a single enhancer element regulate gelatinase A expression in neoplastic cells.

Authors: Mertens, PR  Steinmann, K  Alfonso-Jaume, MA  En-Nia, A  Sun, Y  Lovett, DH 
Citation: Mertens PR, etal., J Biol Chem 2002 Jul 12;277(28):24875-82.
RGD ID: 625578
Pubmed: PMID:11973333   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1074/jbc.M200445200   (Journal Full-text)

Gelatinase A, also denoted matrix metalloproteinase 2, plays multiple critical roles in the neoplastic process, including facilitation of neoangiogenesis and formation of distal metastases. The transcriptional regulation of the gelatinase A gene is under the control of strong, evolutionarily conserved cis-acting enhancer elements, designated the r2 (human) or RE-1 (rat), that harbor contiguous binding motifs for the transcription factors activating protein-2 (AP2), p53, and YB-1. Using recombinant transcription factors, complex patterns of RE-1 binding were observed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. Increased complex formation was detected with the AP2/YB-1 and AP2/p53 combinations, while YB-1 competed with p53 for binding. The combination of AP2, p53, and YB-1 yielded novel ternary complexes, particularly when binding to single-stranded RE-1 probes. Transient transfection of hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines with a series of gelatinase A luciferase reporter constructs were in accordance with the binding patterns determined by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. Combined AP2 and p53 increased gelatinase A luciferase reporter activity significantly, and the inclusion of YB-1 yielded further increase in both reporter activity and secreted levels of gelatinase A protein. YB-1 and p53 expression are increased following multiple genotoxic stresses, including irradiation, and the synergistic interactions of these induced transcription factors with the widely expressed AP2 protein provide a probable pathophysiologic mechanism for the enhanced tumor cell synthesis of gelatinase A induced by radiation.

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Gene Mmp2 matrix metallopeptidase 2 Rattus norvegicus
Gene Tp53 tumor protein p53 Rattus norvegicus

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