p53-inducible Wip1 phosphatase mediates a negative feedback regulation of p38 MAPK-p53 signaling in response to UV radiation
The stress‐responsive p38 MAPK, when activated by genotoxic stresses such as UV radiation, enhances p53 activity by phosphorylation and leads to cell cycle arrest or apoptosis. Here we report that a member of the protein phosphatase type 2C family, Wip1, has a role in down‐regulating p38‐p53 signali...
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Published in | The EMBO journal Vol. 19; no. 23; pp. 6517 - 6526 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.12.2000
Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford University Press |
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Summary: | The stress‐responsive p38 MAPK, when activated by genotoxic stresses such as UV radiation, enhances p53 activity by phosphorylation and leads to cell cycle arrest or apoptosis. Here we report that a member of the protein phosphatase type 2C family, Wip1, has a role in down‐regulating p38‐p53 signaling during the recovery phase of the damaged cells. Wip1 was originally identified as a gene whose expression is induced following γ or UV radiation in a p53‐dependent manner. We found that Wip1 is also inducible by other environmental stresses, such as anisomycin, H2O2 and methyl methane sulfonate. UV‐induction of Wip1 requires p38 activity in addition to the wild‐type p53. Wip1 selectively inactivates p38 by specific dephosphorylation of its conserved threonine residue. Furthermore, Wip1 expression attenuates UV‐induced p53 phosphorylation at Ser33 and Ser46, residues previously reported to be phosphorylated by p38. Wip1 expression also suppresses both p53‐mediated transcription and apoptosis in response to UV radiation. These results suggest that p53‐dependent expression of Wip1 mediates a negative feedback regulation of p38‐p53 signaling and contributes to suppression of the UV‐induced apoptosis. |
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Bibliography: | istex:689FA9DA6D6D8250D1A3A4234D5E8DF88884A5DC ArticleID:EMBJ7593464 ark:/67375/WNG-VBWV131P-H ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 Corresponding author e-mail: takekawa@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
ISSN: | 0261-4189 1460-2075 1460-2075 |
DOI: | 10.1093/emboj/19.23.6517 |