RGD Reference Report - Polyamine depletion induces nucleophosmin modulating stability and transcriptional activity of p53 in intestinal epithelial cells. - Rat Genome Database

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Polyamine depletion induces nucleophosmin modulating stability and transcriptional activity of p53 in intestinal epithelial cells.

Authors: Zou, T  Rao, JN  Liu, L  Marasa, BS  Keledjian, KM  Zhang, AH  Xiao, L  Bass, BL  Wang, JY 
Citation: Zou T, etal., Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2005 Sep;289(3):C686-96. Epub 2005 May 4.
RGD ID: 11535017
Pubmed: PMID:15872011   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1152/ajpcell.00085.2005   (Journal Full-text)

Our previous studies have shown that polyamines are required for normal intestinal mucosal growth and that decreased levels of polyamines inhibit intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) proliferation by stabilizing p53 and other growth-inhibiting proteins. Nucleophosmin (NPM) is a multifunctional protein that recently has been shown to regulate p53 activity. In the present study, we sought to determine whether polyamine depletion increases NPM modulating the stability and transcriptional activity of p53 in a normal IEC-6 intestinal epithelial cell line. Depletion of cellular polyamines by alpha-difluoromethylornithine, the specific inhibitor of polyamine biosynthesis, stimulated expression of the NPM gene and induced nuclear translocation of NPM protein. Polyamine depletion stimulated NPM expression primarily by increasing NPM gene transcription and its mRNA stability, and it induced NPM nuclear translocation through activation of phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase. Increased NPM interacted with p53 and formed a NPM/p53 complex in polyamine-deficient cells. Inhibition of NPM expression by small interfering RNA targeting NPM (siNPM) not only destabilized p53 as indicated by a decrease in its protein half-life but also prevented the increased p53-dependent transactivation as shown by suppression of the p21 promoter activity. Decreased expression of NPM by siNPM also promoted cell growth in polyamine-deficient cells. These results indicate that 1) polyamine depletion increases expression of the NPM gene and enhances NPM nuclear translocation and 2) increased NPM interacts with and stabilizes p53, leading to inhibition of IEC-6 cell proliferation.

Gene Ontology Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

Biological Process
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
negative regulation of epithelial cell proliferation  IMP 11535017 RGD 

Molecular Function
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
p53 binding  IPITp53 (Rattus norvegicus)11535017 RGD 
protein binding  IPINpm1 (Rattus norvegicus)11535017 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Npm1  (nucleophosmin 1)
Tp53  (tumor protein p53)


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