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Sugimoto N, Kitabayashi I, Osano S, Tatsumi Y, Yugawa T, Narisawa-Saito M, Matsukage A, Kiyono T, Fujita M. Identification of novel human Cdt1-binding proteins by a proteomics approach: proteolytic regulation by APC/CCdh1. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 19:1007-21. [PMID: 18162579 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-09-0859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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In mammalian cells, Cdt1 activity is strictly controlled by multiple independent mechanisms, implying that it is central to the regulation of DNA replication during the cell cycle. In fact, unscheduled Cdt1 hyperfunction results in rereplication and/or chromosomal damage. Thus, it is important to understand its function and regulations precisely. We sought to comprehensively identify human Cdt1-binding proteins by a combination of Cdt1 affinity chromatography and liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Through this approach, we could newly identify 11 proteins, including subunits of anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C), SNF2H and WSTF, topoisomerase I and IIalpha, GRWD1/WDR28, nucleophosmin/nucleoplasmin, and importins. In vivo interactions of Cdt1 with APC/C(Cdh1), SNF2H, topoisomerase I and IIalpha, and GRWD1/WDR28 were confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation assays. A further focus on APC/C(Cdh1) indicated that this ubiquitin ligase controls the levels of Cdt1 during the cell cycle via three destruction boxes in the Cdt1 N-terminus. Notably, elimination of these destruction boxes resulted in induction of strong rereplication and chromosomal damage. Thus, in addition to SCF(Skp2) and cullin4-based ubiquitin ligases, APC/C(Cdh1) is a third ubiquitin ligase that plays a crucial role in proteolytic regulation of Cdt1 in mammalian cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nozomi Sugimoto
- Virology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuohku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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Ishida M, Miyamoto M, Naitoh S, Tatsuda D, Hasegawa T, Nemoto T, Yokozeki H, Nishioka K, Matsukage A, Ohki M, Ohta T. The SYT-SSX fusion protein down-regulates the cell proliferation regulator COM1 in t(x;18) synovial sarcoma. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 27:1348-55. [PMID: 17101797 PMCID: PMC1800732 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00658-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Chromosomal translocations are frequently associated with soft-tissue sarcomas. Fusion proteins generated by such translocations often play critical roles in tumorigenesis. Therefore, it is important to understand the function of the fusion protein to develop therapeutic interventions. The t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2) translocation found in synovial sarcomas results in a fusion between the SYT gene on chromosome 18 and an SSX gene on the X chromosome. Although SYT-SSX fusion proteins appear to trigger synovial sarcoma development, little is known about the downstream targets of SYT-SSX. We found that the SYT-SSX fusion protein produces a dominant-negative function for SYT, which is a transcriptional coactivator. We then analyzed the gene expression profiles of SYT-SSX1-expressing HeLa cells using oligonucleotide microarrays and found that the SYT-SSX1 fusion protein directly down-regulated the expression of COM1, a regulator of cell proliferation. COM1 was found to be expressed at relatively low levels in synovial sarcoma tissues and cell lines. We then investigated the impact of conditional COM1 expression in the synovial sarcoma cell line. Increased COM1 expression resulted in induced apoptosis and in reduced cell growth and colony formation activity. Our results suggested that restoration of COM1 expression may be of therapeutic benefit in synovial sarcoma.
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MESH Headings
- Apoptosis
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Proliferation
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, X/genetics
- Colony-Forming Units Assay
- Down-Regulation/genetics
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Dominant
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Neoplastic Stem Cells
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/chemistry
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Protein Structure, Quaternary
- Protein Transport
- Sarcoma, Synovial/genetics
- Sarcoma, Synovial/pathology
- Translocation, Genetic
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- Michiko Ishida
- Genter for Medical Genomics, Pathology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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Aonuma M, Miyamoto M, Inoue YH, Tamai K, Sakai H, Kamasawa N, Matsukage A. Microtubule bundle formation and cell death induced by the human CLASP/Orbit N-terminal fragment. Cell Struct Funct 2006; 30:7-13. [PMID: 16145243 DOI: 10.1247/csf.30.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Previously we have identified the Drosophila orbit gene whose hypomorphic mutations cause abnormal chromosome segregation (Inoue et al., 2000). The orbit encodes Orbit/Mast, a 165-kDa microtubule-associated protein (MAP) with GTP-binding motifs. Two human homologues of the Orbit/Mast, CLASP1 (hOrbit1) and CLASP2 (hOrbit2) have been identified. Using an antibody to CLASP1/hOrbit1 polypeptide, we confirmed that the polypeptide of about 150 kDa associates with microtubule purified from the porcine brain. Thus, we conjectured that CLASP1 may be a human orthologue of the Drosophila Orbit/Mast, and therefore we named it h (human) Orbit1. We constructed the plasmid for expression of a fusion protein of the putative microtubule-binding domain (1-662 out of 1289 residues) of hOrbit1 and the green fluorescent protein (GFP), and then, transfected the plasmid into Tet off cells derived from HeLa cell. Confocal laser scanning microscopic observation revealed that the GFP-fluorescence associated with short and thin filaments in the perinuclear region during the short period after plasmid transfection, and colocalized with only part of the microtubules. GFP fluorescence was later detected on the abnormally longer and thick bundles of microtubule filaments. Finally the bundles formed networks in the perinuclear region. The results suggest that the GFP-hOrbit1 N-terminal fragment (GFP-hOrbit1 NF) binds to the newly formed microtubules rather than the pre-formed ones, and that displacement of the endogenous hOrbit by the fragment might cause abnormal bundling of microtubules. Interestingly, the expression of the GFP-hOrbit1 NF results in cell death associated with nuclear fragmentation.
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- Miki Aonuma
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Graduate School of Science, Japan Women's University, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Tokyo 112-8681, Japan
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Yamaguchi M, Hirose F, Inoue YH, Ohno K, Yoshida H, Hayashi Y, Deak P, Matsukage A. Genetic link between p53 and genes required for formation of the zonula adherens junction. Cancer Sci 2004; 95:436-41. [PMID: 15132772 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2004.tb03228.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Ectopic expression of human p53 in Drosophila eye imaginal disc cells induces apoptosis and results in a rough eye phenotype in the adult flies. We have screened Drosophila stocks to identify mutations that enhance or suppress the p53-induced rough eye phenotype. One of the dominant enhancers of the p53-induced rough eye phenotype corresponds to a loss-of-function mutation of the crumbs gene, which is essential for the biogenesis of the zonula adherens junction and the establishment of apical polarity in epithelial cells. Enhancement of p53-induced apoptosis in the eye imaginal discs by a half-reduction of the crumbs gene dose was confirmed by a TUNEL method. Furthermore, mutations of genes for Shotgun (Drosophila E-cadherin) and Armadillo (Drosophila beta-catenin), the two main components of the adherens junction, also strongly enhanced the p53-induced rough eye phenotype. These results suggest that human p53 senses subtle abnormality at the adherens junction or in signals derived from the junction, and consequently induces apoptosis to remove abnormal cells from tissue. Thus p53 likely plays a role as a guardian of the tissue not only by sensing the damaged DNA, but also by sensing signals from the adherens junction.
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- Masamitsu Yamaguchi
- Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science, Drosophila Genetic Resource Center, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
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Choi YJ, Choi TY, Yamaguchi M, Matsukage A, Kim YS, Yoo MA. Transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila caudal homeobox gene by DRE/DREF. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:3734-42. [PMID: 15254275 PMCID: PMC484175 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The caudal-related homeobox transcription factors are required for the normal development and differentiation of intestinal cells. Recent reports indicate that misregulation of homeotic gene expression is associated with gastrointestinal cancer in mammals. However, the molecular mechanisms that regulate expression of the caudal-related homeobox genes are poorly understood. In this study, we have identified a DNA replication-related element (DRE) in the 5' flanking region of the Drosophila caudal gene. Gel-mobility shift analysis reveals that three of the four DRE-related sequences in the caudal 5'-flanking region are recognized by the DRE-binding factor (DREF). Deletion and site-directed mutagenesis of these DRE sites results in a considerable reduction in caudal gene promoter activity. Analyses with transgenic flies carrying a caudal-lacZ fusion gene bearing wild-type or mutant DRE sites indicate that the DRE sites are required for caudal expression in vivo. These findings indicate that DRE/DREF is a key regulator of Drosophila caudal homeobox gene expression and suggest that DREs and DREF contribute to intestinal development by regulating caudal gene expression.
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- Yoon-Jeong Choi
- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science and Research Institute of Genetic Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
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Sugimoto N, Tatsumi Y, Tsurumi T, Matsukage A, Kiyono T, Nishitani H, Fujita M. Cdt1 phosphorylation by cyclin A-dependent kinases negatively regulates its function without affecting geminin binding. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:19691-7. [PMID: 14993212 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m313175200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The current concept regarding cell cycle regulation of DNA replication is that Cdt1, together with origin recognition complex and CDC6 proteins, constitutes the machinery that loads the minichromosome maintenance complex, a candidate replicative helicase, onto chromatin during the G(1) phase. The actions of origin recognition complex and CDC6 are suppressed through phosphorylation by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) after S phase to prohibit rereplication. It has been suggested in metazoan cells that the function of Cdt1 is blocked through binding to an inhibitor protein, geminin. However, the functional relationship between the Cdt1-geminin system and Cdks remains to be clarified. In this report, we demonstrate that human Cdt1 is phosphorylated by cyclin A-dependent kinases dependent on its cyclin-binding motif. Cdk phosphorylation resulted in the binding of Cdt1 to the F-box protein Skp2 and subsequent degradation. In contrast, in vitro DNA binding activity of Cdt1 was inhibited by the phosphorylation. However, geminin binding to Cdt1 was not affected by the phosphorylation. Finally we provide evidence that inactivation of Cdk1 results in Cdt1 dephosphorylation and rebinding to chromatin in murine FT210 cells synchronized around the G(2)/M phase. Taken together, these findings suggest that Cdt1 function is also negatively regulated by the Cdk phosphorylation independent of geminin binding.
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- Nozomi Sugimoto
- Virology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuohku, Tokyo 104-0045
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Matsukage A. [DNA polymerase beta]. Seikagaku 2002; 74:203-7. [PMID: 11974911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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- Akio Matsukage
- Department of Chemical and Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8681
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Higashiyama H, Hirose F, Yamaguchi M, Inoue YH, Fujikake N, Matsukage A, Kakizuka A. Identification of ter94, Drosophila VCP, as a modulator of polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration. Cell Death Differ 2002; 9:264-73. [PMID: 11859409 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2001] [Accepted: 09/05/2001] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We have successfully generated a Drosophila model of human polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases by the targeted expression of expanded-polyQ (ex-polyQ) in the Drosophila compound eye. The resulting eye degeneration is progressive and ex-polyQ dosage- and ex-polyQ length-dependent. Furthermore, intergenerational changes in repeat length were observed in homozygotes, with concomitant changes in the levels of degeneration. Through genetic screening, using this fly model, we identified loss-of-function mutants of the ter94 gene that encodes the Drosophila homolog of VCP/CDC48, a member of the AAA+ class of the ATPase protein family, as dominant suppressors. The suppressive effects of the ter94 mutants on ex-polyQ-induced neurodegeneration correlated well with the degrees of loss-of-function, but appeared not to result from the inhibition of ex-polyQ aggregate formation. In the ex-polyQ-expressing cells of the late pupa, an upregulation of ter94 expression was observed prior to cell death. Co-expression of ter94 with ex-polyQ severely enhanced eye degeneration. Interestingly, when ter94 was overexpressed in the eye by increasing the transgene copies, severe eye degeneration was induced. Furthermore, genetical studies revealed that ter94 was not involved in grim-, reaper-, hid-, ced4-, or p53-induced cell death pathways. From these observations, we propose that VCP is a novel cell death effector molecule in ex-polyQ-induced neurodegeneration, where the amount of VCP is critical. Control of VCP expression may thus be a potential therapeutic target in ex-polyQ-induced neurodegeneration.
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- H Higashiyama
- The Fourth Department, Osaka Bioscience Institute, 565-0874 Osaka, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Kamisuki S, Kasai N, Shimazaki N, Takemura M, Asahara H, Linn S, Yoshida S, Matsukage A, Koiwai O, Sugawara F, Yoshida H, Sakaguchi K. A plant phytotoxin, solanapyrone A, is an inhibitor of DNA polymerase beta and lambda. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:630-8. [PMID: 11677229 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m105144200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Solanapyrone A, a phytotoxin and enzyme inhibitor isolated from a fungus (SUT 01B1-2) selectively inhibits the activities of mammalian DNA polymerase beta and lambda (pol beta and lambda) in vitro. The IC50 values of the compound were 30 microm for pol beta and 37 microm for pol lambda. Because pol beta and lambda are in a family and their three-dimensional structures are thought to be highly similar to each other, we used pol beta to analyze the biochemical relationship with solanapyrone A. On pol beta, solanapyrone A antagonistically competed with both the DNA template and the nucleotide substrate. BIAcore analysis demonstrated that solanapyrone A bound selectively to the N-terminal 8-kDa domain of pol beta. This domain is known to bind single-stranded DNA, provide 5'-phosphate recognition of gapped DNA, and cleave the sugar-phosphate bond 3' to an intact apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site (i.e. AP lyase activity) including 5'-deoxyribose phosphate lyase activity. Solanapyrone A inhibited the single-stranded DNA-binding activity but did not influence the activities of the 5'-phosphate recognition in gapped DNA structures and the AP lyase. Based on these results, the inhibitory mechanism of solanapyrone A is discussed.
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- Yoshiyuki Mizushina
- Laboratory of Food & Nutritional Sciences, Department of Nutritional Science, Kobe-Gakuin University, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2180, Japan.
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Hirose F, Ohshima N, Shiraki M, Inoue YH, Taguchi O, Nishi Y, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. Ectopic expression of DREF induces DNA synthesis, apoptosis, and unusual morphogenesis in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc: possible interaction with Polycomb and trithorax group proteins. Mol Cell Biol 2001; 21:7231-42. [PMID: 11585906 PMCID: PMC99898 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.21.21.7231-7242.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The promoters of Drosophila genes encoding DNA replication-related proteins contain transcription regulatory element DRE (5'-TATCGATA) in addition to E2F recognition sites. A specific DRE-binding factor, DREF, positively regulates DRE-containing genes. In addition, it has been reported that DREF can bind to a sequence in the hsp70 scs' chromatin boundary element that is also recognized by boundary element-associated factor, and thus DREF may participate in regulating insulator activity. To examine DREF function in vivo, we established transgenic flies in which ectopic expression of DREF was targeted to the eye imaginal discs. Adult flies expressing DREF exhibited a severe rough eye phenotype. Expression of DREF induced ectopic DNA synthesis in the cells behind the morphogenetic furrow, which are normally postmitotic, and abolished photoreceptor specifications of R1, R6, and R7. Furthermore, DREF expression caused apoptosis in the imaginal disc cells in the region where commitment to R1/R6 cells takes place, suggesting that failure of differentiation of R1/R6 photoreceptor cells might cause apoptosis. The DREF-induced rough eye phenotype was suppressed by a half-dose reduction of the E2F gene, one of the genes regulated by DREF, indicating that the DREF overexpression phenotype is useful to screen for modifiers of DREF activity. Among Polycomb/trithorax group genes, we found that a half-dose reduction of some of the trithorax group genes involved in determining chromatin structure or chromatin remodeling (brahma, moira, and osa) significantly suppressed and that reduction of Distal-less enhanced the DREF-induced rough eye phenotype. The results suggest a possibility that DREF activity might be regulated by protein complexes that play a role in modulating chromatin structure. Genetic crosses of transgenic flies expressing DREF to a collection of Drosophila deficiency stocks allowed us to identify several genomic regions, deletions of which caused enhancement or suppression of the DREF-induced rough eye phenotype. These deletions should be useful to identify novel targets of DREF and its positive or negative regulators.
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- F Hirose
- Division of Biochemistry, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan.
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Yoshida H, Inoue YH, Hirose F, Sakaguchi K, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. Over-expression of DREF in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc induces apoptosis and a notching wing phenotype. Genes Cells 2001; 6:877-86. [PMID: 11683916 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2001.00473.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND DNA replication-related element binding factor (DREF) has been suggested to be involved in regulation of DNA replication- and proliferation-related genes in Drosophila. While the effects on the mutation in the DNA replication-related element (DRE) in cultured cells have been studied extensively, the consequences of elevating wild-type DREF activity in developing tissues have hitherto remained unclear. RESULTS We over-expressed DREF in the wing imaginal disc using a GAL4-UAS targeted expression system in Drosophila. Over-expression of DREF induced a notching wing phenotype, which was associated with ectopic apoptosis. A half reduction of the reaper, head involution defective and grim gene dose suppressed this DREF-induced notching wing phenotype. Furthermore, this was also the case with co-expression of baculovirus P35, a caspase inhibitor. In addition, over-expression of the 32 kDa boundary element-associated factor (BEAF-32), thought to compete against DREF for common binding sites in genomic regions, rescued the DREF-induced notching wing phenotype, while a half reduction of the genomic region, including the BEAF-32 gene, exerted enhancing effects. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence for a genetic interaction between DREF and BEAF-32. CONCLUSION The DREF-induced notching wing phenotype is caused by induction of apoptosis in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc.
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- H Yoshida
- Division of Biochemistry, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8681, Japan
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Yamaguchi M, Yoshida H, Hirose F, Inoue YH, Hayashi Y, Yamagishi M, Nishi Y, Tamai K, Sakaguchi K, Matsukage A. Ectopic expression of BEAF32A in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc inhibits differentiation of photoreceptor cells and induces apoptosis. Chromosoma 2001; 110:313-21. [PMID: 11685531 DOI: 10.1007/s004120100155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2001] [Accepted: 05/12/2001] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Transgenic flies were established in which ectopic expression of boundary element-associated factor (BEAF) 32A was targeted to the Drosophila eye imaginal disc. The eyes of the adult fly displayed a severe rough eye phenotype. When these eyes were sectioned, most ommatidia were found to be fused and irregularly shaped rhabdomeres were observed. In the developing eye imaginal disc, expression of BEAF32A inhibited differentiation of photoreceptor cells. Expression of BEAF32A also induced extensive apoptosis of eye imaginal disc cells and, consistent with this, co-expression of baculovirus P35 in the eye imaginal disc suppressed the BEAF32A-induced rough eye phenotype. To investigate the effects of BEAF32A on regulation of chromatin structure, genetic crosses of the BEAF32A-overexpressing flies with loss-of-function mutants for genes encoding other boundary element-binding factors or regulators of chromatin structure were conducted. Interestingly, half-dose reduction of the su(Hw) gene strongly enhanced the rough eye phenotype induced by BEAF32A. Furthermore, genetic crosses of the transgenic flies with loss-of-function mutants for genes interacting with Polycomb revealed specific links between BEAF32A and genes such as Distalless and kohtalo, suggesting a relation to the chromatin insulator function of BEAF. In addition, genetic crosses of transgenic flies expressing BEAF32A with a collection of Drosophila deficiency stocks allowed us to identify several genomic regions, deletions of which caused enhancement or suppression of the BEAF32A-induced rough eye phenotype. The transgenic flies established in this study should be useful to identify targets of BEAF32A and its positive or negative regulators in Drosophila.
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- M Yamaguchi
- Division of Biochemistry, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
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Mizushina Y, Sugiyama Y, Yoshida H, Hanashima S, Yamazaki T, Kamisuki S, Ohta K, Takemura M, Yamaguchi T, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Saneyoshi M, Sugawara F, Sakagauchi K. Galactosyldiacylglycerol, a mammalian DNA polymerase alpha-specific inhibitor from a sea alga, Petalonia bingbamiae. Biol Pharm Bull 2001; 24:982-7. [PMID: 11558581 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.24.982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The glycolipid galactosyldiacylglycerol (GDG), containing C16:0 and C18:1 fatty acids, was isolated from the sea alga Petalonia bingbamiae as a potent inhibitor of the activities of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha (pol. alpha). GDG, however, had no effect on pol. alpha from a fish or a higher plant. The inhibition of pol. alpha by GDG was dose-dependent with an IC50 value of 54 microM. The compound did not influence the activities of other replicative DNA polymerases such as mammalian pol. delta, or repair-related enzymes such as mammalian pol. beta. GDG also did not influence the activities of prokaryotic DNA polymerases such as the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I, T4 DNA polymerase, Taq DNA polymerase, DNA polymerases from the higher plant, cauliflower, or DNA metabolic enzymes such as calf thymus terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase and deoxyribonuclease 1. Kinetic analysis of the compound showed that pol. alpha was non-competitively inhibited with respect to both the DNA template and the nucleotide substrate. In this study, we demonstrated the structure-function relationship in the selective inhibition of pol. alpha by the glycolipid group.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Nutritional Science, and High Technology Research Center, Kobe-Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan.
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Kwon EJ, Oh EJ, Kim YS, Hirose F, Ohno K, Nishida Y, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M, Yoo MA. E2F-dependent transcription of the raf proto-oncogene during Drosophila development. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:1808-14. [PMID: 11292854 PMCID: PMC31312 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.8.1808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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D-raf, a Drosophila homolog of the raf proto-oncogene, has diverse functions throughout development and is transcribed in a wide range of tissues, with high levels of expression in the ovary and in association with rapid proliferation. The expression pattern resembles those of S phase genes, which are regulated by E2F transcription factors. In the 5'-flanking region of D-raf, four sequences (E2F sites 1-4) similar to the E2F recognition sequence were found, one of them (E2F site 3) being recognized efficiently by Drosophila E2F (dE2F) in vitro. Transient luciferase expression assays confirmed activation of the D-raf gene promoter by dE2F/dDP. Expression of Draf-lacZ was greatly reduced in embryos homozygous for the dE2F mutation. These results suggest that dE2F is likely to be an important regulator of D-raf transcription.
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- E J Kwon
- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, Korea
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Ohno K, Takahashi Y, Hirose F, Inoue YH, Taguchi O, Nishida Y, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. Characterization of a Drosophila homologue of the human myelodysplasia/myeloid leukemia factor (MLF). Gene 2000; 260:133-43. [PMID: 11137299 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(00)00447-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The transcription factor DREF regulates proliferation-related genes in Drosophila. With two-hybrid screening using DREF as a bait, we have obtained a clone encoding a protein homologous to human myelodysplasia/myeloid leukemia factor 1 (hMLF1). We termed the protein Drosophila MLF (dMLF); it consists of a polypeptide of 309 amino acid residues, whose sequence shares 23.1% identity with hMLF1. High conservation of 54.2% identity over 107 amino acids was found in the central region. The dMLF gene was mapped to 52D on the second chromosome by in situ hybridization. Interaction between dMLF and DREF in vitro could be confirmed by glutathione S-transferase pull-down assay, with the conserved central region appearing to play an important role in this. Northern blot hybridization analysis revealed dMLF mRNA levels to be high in unfertilized eggs, early embryos, pupae and adult males, and relatively low in adult females and larvae. This fluctuation of mRNA during Drosophila development is similar to that observed for DREF mRNA, except in the pupa and adult male. Using a specific antibody against the dMLF, we performed immunofluorescent staining of Drosophila Kc cells and showed a primarily cytoplasmic staining, whereas DREF localizes in the nucleus. However, dMLF protein contains a putative 14-3-3 binding motif involved in the subcellular localization of various regulatory molecules, and interaction with DREF could be regulated through this motif. The transgenic fly data suggesting the genetic interaction between DREF and dMLF support this possibility. Characterization of dMLF in the present study provides the molecular basis for analysis of its significance in Drosophila.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Blotting, Southern
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster/embryology
- Drosophila melanogaster/genetics
- Drosophila melanogaster/growth & development
- Eye/metabolism
- Eye/ultrastructure
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genes, Insect/genetics
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- In Situ Hybridization
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Protein Binding
- Proteins/genetics
- Proteins/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
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- K Ohno
- Division of Biochemistry, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, 464-8681, Nagoya, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Kamisuki S, Mizuno T, Takemura M, Asahara H, Linn S, Yamaguchi T, Matsukage A, Hanaoka F, Yoshida S, Saneyoshi M, Sugawara F, Sakaguchi K. Dehydroaltenusin, a mammalian DNA polymerase alpha inhibitor. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:33957-61. [PMID: 10942777 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006096200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Dehydroaltenusin was found to be an inhibitor of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha (pol alpha) in vitro. Surprisingly, among the polymerases and DNA metabolic enzymes tested, dehydroaltenusin inhibited only mammalian pol alpha. Dehydroaltenusin did not influence the activities of the other replicative DNA polymerases, such as delta and epsilon; it also showed no effect even on the pol alpha activity from another vertebrate (fish) or plant species. The inhibitory effect of dehydroaltenusin on mammalian pol alpha was dose-dependent, and 50% inhibition was observed at a concentration of 0.5 microm. Dehydroaltenusin-induced inhibition of mammalian pol alpha activity was competitive with the template-primer and non-competitive with the dNTP substrate. BIAcore analysis demonstrated that dehydroaltenusin bound to the core domain of the largest subunit, p180, of mouse pol alpha, which has catalytic activity, but did not bind to the smallest subunit or the DNA primase p46 of mouse pol alpha. These results suggest that the dehydroaltenusin molecule competes with the template-primer molecule on its binding site of the catalytic domain of mammalian pol alpha, binds to the site, and simultaneously disturbs dNTP substrate incorporation into the template-primer.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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Choi T, Cho N, Oh Y, Yoo M, Matsukage A, Ryu Y, Han K, Yoon J, Baek K. The DNA replication-related element (DRE)-DRE-binding factor (DREF) system may be involved in the expression of the Drosophila melanogaster TBP gene. FEBS Lett 2000; 483:71-7. [PMID: 11033359 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)02085-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The TATA box binding protein (TBP) is a general transcription factor required for initiation by all three eukaryotic RNA polymerases. Previously, we found that the promoter region of the Drosophila melanogaster TBP gene contains three sequences similar to the DNA replication-related element (DRE) (5'-TATCGATA). In the present study, we found that the DRE-like sequences are also present in the promoter of the Drosophila virilis TBP gene, suggesting a role for these sequences in TBP expression. Band mobility shift assays revealed that oligonucleotides containing sequences similar to the DRE of D. melanogaster TBP gene promoter form specific complexes with a factor in a Kc cell nuclear extract and with recombinant DRE-binding factor (DREF). Furthermore, these complexes were either supershifted or diminished by monoclonal antibodies to DREF. Transient luciferase assays demonstrated that induction of mutations in two DRE-related sequences at positions -223 and -63 resulted in an extensive reduction of promoter activity. Thus, the DRE-DREF system appears to be involved in the expression of the D. melanogaster TBP gene.
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- T Choi
- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, South Korea
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Nagasawa K, Kitamura K, Yasui A, Nimura Y, Ikeda K, Hirai M, Matsukage A, Nakanishi M. Identification and characterization of human DNA polymerase beta 2, a DNA polymerase beta -related enzyme. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:31233-8. [PMID: 10887191 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m004263200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The BRCA1 COOH terminus (BRCT) motif is present in many nuclear proteins that contribute to cell cycle regulation or DNA repair. Polymerase chain reaction-based screening with degenerate primers targeted to the BRCT motif resulted in the isolation of a human cDNA for a previously unidentified DNA polymerase (designated DNA polymerase beta2) that is closely related to DNA polymerase beta (Pol beta). The predicted Pol beta2 protein contains a BRCT motif in its NH(2)-terminal region; its COOH-terminal region exhibits 33% sequence identity to a corresponding region of human Pol beta. The Pol beta2 gene is expressed in a tissue-specific manner, with transcripts being most abundant in testis. A fusion construct comprising Pol beta2 and green fluorescent protein exhibited a predominantly nuclear localization in transfected HeLa cells. Recombinant human Pol beta2 from insect cells exhibited substantial DNA polymerase activity, but it did not possess terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase activity. A truncated Pol beta2 mutant lacking the BRCT motif retained substantial DNA polymerase activity, whereas a mutant Pol beta2 with two alanine point mutations within the DNA polymerase active site did not. These results indicate that Pol beta2 is a Pol beta-related DNA polymerase with a BRCT motif that is dispensable for its polymerase activity.
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- K Nagasawa
- Department of Geriatric Research, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Obu, Aichi 474-8522, Japan
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Oshige M, Yoshida H, Hirose F, Takata KI, Inoue Y, Aoyagi N, Yamaguchi M, Koiwai O, Matsukage A, Sakaguchi K. Molecular cloning and expression during development of the Drosophila gene for the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase epsilon. Gene 2000; 256:93-100. [PMID: 11054539 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(00)00370-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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We have cloned the genomic DNA and cDNA of Drosophila DNA polymerase epsilon (pol-epsilon) catalytic subunit (GenBank No. AB035512). The gene is separated into four exons by three short introns, and the open reading frame consists of 6660 base pairs (bp) capable of encoding a polypeptide of 2220 amino acid residues. The calculated molecular mass is 255018, similar to that of mammalian and yeast homologues. The deduced amino acid sequence of the pol-epsilon catalytic subunit shares approximately 41% identity with human and mouse homologues as well as significant homology those of C. elegans, S. cerevisiae and S. pombe. Similar to the pol-epsilon catalytic subunits from other species, the pol-epsilon catalytic subunit contains domains for DNA polymerization and 3'-5' exonuclease in the N-terminal region, and two potential zinc-finger domains in the C-terminal regions. Interestingly, a 38 amino acid sequence in the C-terminal region from amino acid positions 1823 to 1861 is similar to the site for Mycoplasma ATP binding and/or ATPase domain (GenBank No. P47365). Northern hybridization analysis indicated that the gene is expressed at the highest levels in unfertilized eggs, followed by zero to 4h embryos and adult females, and then embryos at other embryonic stages, instar larva stages and adult males. Low levels of the mRNA were also detected at the pupa stage. This pattern of expression is similar to those of DNA replication-related enzymes such as DNA polymerase alpha and delta except for the high level of expression in adult males.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Catalytic Domain
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA/genetics
- DNA Polymerase II/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Drosophila melanogaster/embryology
- Drosophila melanogaster/genetics
- Drosophila melanogaster/growth & development
- Exons
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Genes, Insect/genetics
- Introns
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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- M Oshige
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba 278-8510, Noda, Japan
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Izumi M, Yokoi M, Nishikawa NS, Miyazawa H, Sugino A, Yamagishi M, Yamaguchi M, Matsukage A, Yatagai F, Hanaoka F. Transcription of the catalytic 180-kDa subunit gene of mouse DNA polymerase alpha is controlled by E2F, an Ets-related transcription factor, and Sp1. Biochim Biophys Acta 2000; 1492:341-52. [PMID: 11004506 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(00)00117-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have isolated a genomic DNA fragment spanning the 5'-end of the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of mouse DNA polymerase alpha. The nucleotide sequence of the upstream region was G/C-rich and lacked a TATA box. Transient expression assays in cycling NIH 3T3 cells demonstrated that the GC box of 20 bp (at nucleotides -112/-93 with respect to the transcription initiation site) and the palindromic sequence of 14 bp (at nucleotides -71/-58) were essential for basal promoter activity. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that Sp1 binds to the GC box. We also purified a protein capable of binding to the palindrome and identified it as GA-binding protein (GABP), an Ets- and Notch-related transcription factor. Transient expression assays in synchronized NIH 3T3 cells revealed that three variant E2F sites near the transcription initiation site (at nucleotides -23/-16, -1/+7 and +17/+29) had no basal promoter activity by themselves, but were essential for growth-dependent stimulation of the gene expression. These data indicate that E2F, GABP and Sp1 regulate the gene expression of this principal replication enzyme.
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- M Izumi
- Division of Radioisotope Technology, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and CHemical Research), Saitama, Japan.
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Kwon EJ, Park HS, Kim YS, Oh EJ, Nishida Y, Matsukage A, Yoo MA, Yamaguchi M. Transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila raf proto-oncogene by Drosophila STAT during development and in immune response. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:19824-30. [PMID: 10764759 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m001114200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Drosophila raf (D-raf) gene promoter contains a recognition consensus sequence for Drosophila STAT (D-STAT). By band mobility shift assay, we detected a factor binding to the D-STAT-recognition sequence in extracts of cultured Drosophila cells treated with vanadate peroxide. UV-cross-linking analyses suggested the size of the binding factor to be almost same as that of D-STAT. Furthermore, the binding activity was increased in cells cotransfected with HOP and D-STAT expression plasmids. These results strongly suggest that D-STAT binds to the D-STAT recognition sequence in the D-raf gene promoter. Transient luciferase expression assay using Schneider 2 cells indicated that the D-raf gene promoter is activated by D-STAT through the D-STAT-binding site. Furthermore, analyses with transgenic flies carrying Draf-lacZ fusion genes with and without mutations in the D-STAT-binding site pointed to an important role in D-raf gene promoter activity throughout development. We also found that the D-STAT-binding site is required for injury-induced activation of the D-raf gene promoter. Here we propose that D-STAT can participate in regulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade through D-raf gene activation.
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- E J Kwon
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8681, Japan
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Inoue YH, do Carmo Avides M, Shiraki M, Deak P, Yamaguchi M, Nishimoto Y, Matsukage A, Glover DM. Orbit, a novel microtubule-associated protein essential for mitosis in Drosophila melanogaster. J Cell Biol 2000; 149:153-66. [PMID: 10747094 PMCID: PMC2175100 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.1.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We describe a Drosophila gene, orbit, that encodes a conserved 165-kD microtubule-associated protein (MAP) with GTP binding motifs. Hypomorphic mutations in orbit lead to a maternal effect resulting in branched and bent mitotic spindles in the syncytial embryo. In the larval central nervous system, such mutants have an elevated mitotic index with some mitotic cells showing an increase in ploidy. Amorphic alleles show late lethality and greater frequencies of hyperploid mitotic cells. The presence of cells in the hypomorphic mutant in which the chromosomes can be arranged, either in a circular metaphase or an anaphase-like configuration on monopolar spindles, suggests that polyploidy arises through spindle and chromosome segregation defects rather than defects in cytokinesis. A role for the Orbit protein in regulating microtubule behavior in mitosis is suggested by its association with microtubules throughout the spindle at all mitotic stages, by its copurification with microtubules from embryonic extracts, and by the finding that the Orbit protein directly binds to MAP-free microtubules in a GTP-dependent manner.
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- Yoshihiro H. Inoue
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
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- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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- Cell Cycle Genetics Research Group, Medical Sciences Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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Hayashi Y, Yamagishi M, Nishimoto Y, Taguchi O, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. A binding site for the transcription factor Grainyhead/Nuclear transcription factor-1 contributes to regulation of the Drosophila proliferating cell nuclear antigen gene promoter. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:35080-8. [PMID: 10574988 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.49.35080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Drosophila proliferating cell nuclear antigen promoter contains multiple transcriptional regulatory elements, including upstream regulatory element (URE), DNA replication-related element, E2F recognition sites, and three common regulatory factor for DNA replication and DNA replication-related element-binding factor genes recognition sites. In nuclear extracts of Drosophila embryos, we detected a protein factor, the URE-binding factor (UREF), that recognizes the nucleotide sequence 5'-AAACCAGTTGGCA located within URE. Analyses in Drosophila Kc cells and transgenic flies revealed that the UREF-binding site plays an important role in promoter activity both in cultured cells and in living flies. A yeast one-hybrid screen using URE as a bait allowed isolation of a cDNA encoding a transcription factor, Grainyhead/nuclear transcription factor-1 (GRH/NTF-1). The nucleotide sequence required for binding to GRH was indistinguishable from that for UREF detected in embryo nuclear extracts. Furthermore, a specific antibody to GRH reacted with UREF in embryo nuclear extracts. From these results we conclude that GRH is identical to UREF. Although GRH has been thought to be involved in regulation of differentiation-related genes, this study demonstrates, for the first time, involvement of a GRH-binding site in regulation of the DNA replication-related proliferating cell nuclear antigen gene.
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- Y Hayashi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8681, Japan
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Yamaguchi M, Hirose F, Inoue YH, Shiraki M, Hayashi Y, Nishi Y, Matsukage A. Ectopic expression of human p53 inhibits entry into S phase and induces apoptosis in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc. Oncogene 1999; 18:6767-75. [PMID: 10597285 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Transgenic flies in which ectopic expression of human p53 was targeted to the Drosophila eye imaginal disc were established. On sectioning of adult fly eyes which displayed a severe rough eye phenotype, most ommatidia were found to be fused and irregular shapes of rabdomeres were observed. In addition, many pigment cells were lost. In the developing eye imaginal disc, photoreceptor cell differentiation was initiated normally despite the ectopic expression of p53. However, expression of p53 inhibited cell cycle progression in eye imaginal disc cells and the S phase zone (the second mitotic wave) behind the morphogenetic furrow was almost completely abolished. Furthermore, expression of p53 induced extensive apoptosis of eye imaginal disc cells, and co-expression of baculovirus P35 in the eye imaginal disc suppressed the p53-induced rough eye phenotype. These results are consistent with the known functions of human p53 and indicate the existence of signaling systems with elements corresponding to human p53 in Drosophila eye imaginal disc cells. Genetic crosses of transgenic flies expressing p53 to a collection of Drosophila deficiency stocks allowed us to identify several genomic regions, deletions of which caused enhancement or suppression of the p53-induced rough eye phenotype. The transgenic flies established in this study should be useful to identify novel targets of p53 and its positive or negative regulators in Drosophila.
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- M Yamaguchi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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Hirose F, Yamaguchi M, Matsukage A. Targeted expression of the DNA binding domain of DRE-binding factor, a Drosophila transcription factor, attenuates DNA replication of the salivary gland and eye imaginal disc. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:6020-8. [PMID: 10454549 PMCID: PMC84493 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.9.6020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The promoters of Drosophila genes encoding DNA replication-related proteins contain transcription regulatory elements consisting of an 8-bp palindromic DNA replication-related element (DRE) sequence (5'-TATCGATA). The specific DRE-binding factor (DREF), a homodimer of the polypeptide with 709 amino acid residues, is a positive trans-acting factor for transcription of DRE-containing genes. Both DRE binding and dimer formation are associated with residues 16 to 115 of the N-terminal region. We have established transgenic flies expressing the full-length DREF polypeptide or its N-terminal fragment (amino acid residues 1 to 125) under the control of the heat shock promoter, the salivary gland-specific promoter, or the eye imaginal disc-specific promoter. Heat shock induction of the N-terminal fragment during embryonic, larval, or pupal stages caused greater than 50% lethality. This lethality was overcome by coexpression of the full-length DREF. In salivary glands of the transgenic larvae expressing the N-terminal fragment, this fragment formed a homodimer and a heterodimer with the endogenous DREF. Ectopic expression of the N-terminal fragment in salivary gland cells reduced the contents of mRNAs for the 180-kDa subunit of DNA polymerase alpha and for dE2F and the extent of DNA endoreplication. Ectopic expression of the N-terminal fragment in the eye imaginal discs significantly reduced DNA replication in cells at the second mitotic wave. The lines of evidence suggest that the N-terminal fragment can impede the endogenous DREF function in a dominant negative manner and that DREF is required for normal DNA replication in both mitotic cell cycle and endo cycle.
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- F Hirose
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8681, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Takahashi N, Ogawa A, Tsurugaya K, Koshino H, Takemura M, Yoshida S, Matsukage A, Sugawara F, Sakaguchi K. The cyanogenic glucoside, prunasin (D-mandelonitrile-beta-D-glucoside), is a novel inhibitor of DNA polymerase beta. J Biochem 1999; 126:430-6. [PMID: 10423540 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta) inhibitor has been isolated independently from two organisms; a red perilla, Perilla frutescens, and a mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris. These molecules were determined by spectroscopic analyses to be the cyanogenic glucoside, D-mandelonitrile-beta-D-glucoside, prunasin. The compound inhibited the activity of rat pol. beta at 150 microM, but did not influence the activities of calf DNA polymerase alpha and plant DNA polymerases, human immunodefficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase, calf terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, or any prokaryotic DNA polymerases, or DNA and RNA metabolic enzymes examined. The compound dose-dependently inhibited pol. beta activity, the IC(50) value being 98 microM with poly dA/oligo dT(12-18) and dTTP as the DNA template and substrate, respectively. Inhibition of pol. beta by the compound was competitive with the substrate, dTTP. The inhibition was enhanced in the presence of fatty acid, and the IC(50) value decreased to approximately 40 microM. In the presence of C(10)-decanoic acid, the K(i) value for substrate dTTP decreased by 28-fold, suggesting that the fatty acid allowed easier access of the compound to the substrate-binding site.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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Ohta K, Mizushina Y, Hirata N, Takemura M, Sugawara F, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. Action of a new mammalian DNA polymerase inhibitor, sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol. Biol Pharm Bull 1999; 22:111-6. [PMID: 10077426 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.22.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We found and previously reported a new mammalian DNA polymerase inhibitor from a sea alga, Gigartina tenella, (Ohta K., et al., Chem. Pharm. Bull., 46, 684-686, 1998). It was a new sulfolipid compound that belonged in the class of sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol. The biochemical properties have been investigated here. The compound, temporarily designated KM043, potently inhibited the activities of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha(pol. alpha) and DNA polymerase beta(pol. beta) and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), and moderately, human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase (HIV-RT). KM043 dose-dependently inhibited their activities, and each of their IC50 values was 0.25 microM for pol. alpha, 0.38 microM for TdT, 3.6 microM for pol. beta, or 11.2 microM for HIV-RT, and almost complete inhibition of each was achieved at 1.0 to 2.0 microM for pol. alpha and TdT, 7.5 microM for pol. beta and about 30 microM for HIV-RT. However, the compound did not influence the activities of prokaryotic DNA polymerases such as E. coli DNA polymerase I, and DNA metabolic enzymes like DNase 1. Inhibition of pol. alpha or beta by KM043 was non-competitive with both the DNA template and the substrate deoxythymidine 5'-triphosphate (dTTP). KM043 was weakly cytotoxic to cultured HeLa-S3 cells, and the IC50 value was 80 microM. KM043 could synergistically enhance the cytocidal effect of an anti-cancer chemotherapy agent, bleomycin. In the presence of 50 microM KM043, the effect ratio of (bleomycin plus KM043)/(bleomysin only) decreased from 0.76 to 0.22.
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- K Ohta
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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Takahashi Y, Hirose F, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. Identification of three conserved regions in the DREF transcription factors from Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis. Nucleic Acids Res 1999; 27:510-6. [PMID: 9862973 PMCID: PMC148208 DOI: 10.1093/nar/27.2.510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The genes for a DNA replication-related element-binding factor (DREF) were isolated from Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis, and their nucleotide sequences were determined. Drosophila virilis DREF consists of 742 amino acid residues, which is 33 amino acids longer than D.melanogaster DREF. Comparison of the amino acid sequences revealed that D.virilis DREF is 71% identical to its D. melanogaster homolog. Three highly conserved regions were identified at amino acid positions 14-182 (CR1), 432-568 (CR2) and 636-730 (CR3) of the D.virilis DREF, with 86.4, 86.1 and 83.3% identities, respectively. Transgenic flies in which expression of three conserved regions of D.melanogaster DREF was targeted to the eye imaginal disc were established. Expression of CR1 in the developing eye imaginal discs resulted in a severe rough eye phenotype in adult flies. Expression of CR3 also caused a rough eye phenotype, while that of CR2 had no apparent effect on eye morphology. Expression of either CR1 or CR3 in eye imaginal disc cells inhibited cell cycle progression and reduced incorporation of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine into the S-phase zone (the second mitotic wave) behind the morphogenetic furrow. The results indicate that both CR1 and CR3 are important for DREF functions.
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- Y Takahashi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8681, Japan
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Sawado T, Yamaguchi M, Nishimoto Y, Ohno K, Sakaguchi K, Matsukage A. dE2F2, a novel E2F-family transcription factor in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 251:409-15. [PMID: 9792788 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mammalian E2F transcription factors comprise a family of proteins encoded by distinct genes which function in the form of heterodimers with DP proteins. In Drosophila melanogaster, only a single E2F-related transcription factor, dE2F, has been reported. We have now identified and characterized a cDNA encoding another E2F family member in Drosophila, termed dE2F2. The predicted amino acid sequence shares 38.8% identity with dE2F, including the QKRRIYDITNVLEGI motif which is highly conserved in mammalian E2F family members and dE2F. The 18 amino acids, located in the carboxy-terminal region of the mammalian E2F family, sufficient for binding to pRb are also conserved in dE2F2. Band mobility shift analyses with glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins revealed dE2F2 binding to E2F-recognition sites to be dependent on the presence of dDP protein, in apparent contrast to dE2F. Furthermore, cotransfection experiments in Kc cells demonstrated dE2F2 repression of the PCNA gene promoter activity, while dE2F caused activation, the target site for the repression being identical to the dE2F-recognition site.
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- T Sawado
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
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Sawado T, Hirose F, Takahashi Y, Sasaki T, Shinomiya T, Sakaguchi K, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. The DNA replication-related element (DRE)/DRE-binding factor system is a transcriptional regulator of the Drosophila E2F gene. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:26042-51. [PMID: 9748283 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.40.26042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Two mRNA species were observed for the Drosophila E2F (dE2F) gene, differing with regard to the first exons (exon 1-a and exon 1-b), which were expressed differently during development. A single transcription initiation site for mRNA containing exon 1-b was mapped by primer extension analysis and numbered +1. We found three tandemly aligned sequences, similar to the DNA replication-related element (DRE; 5'-TATCGATA), which is commonly required for transcription of genes related to DNA replication and cell proliferation, in the region upstream of this site. Band mobility shift analyses using oligonucleotides containing the DRE-related sequences with or without various base substitutions revealed that two out of three DRE-related sequences are especially important for binding to the DRE-binding factor (DREF). On footprinting analysis with Kc cell nuclear extracts and a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein with the N-terminal fragment (1-125 amino acid residues) of DREF, all three DRE-related sequences were found to be protected. Transient luciferase expression assays in Kc cells demonstrated that the region containing the three DRE-related sequences is required for high promoter activity. We have established transgenic lines of Drosophila in which ectopic expression of DREF was targeted to the eye imaginal disc cells. Overexpression of DREF in eye imaginal disc cells enhanced the promoter activity of dE2F. The obtained results indicate that the DRE/DREF system activates transcription of the dE2F gene.
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- T Sawado
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Aichi 464-8681, Japan
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Ohno K, Hirose F, Inoue YH, Takisawa H, Mimura S, Hashimoto Y, Kiyono T, Nishida Y, Matsukage A. cDNA cloning and expression during development of Drosophila melanogaster MCM3, MCM6 and MCM7. Gene X 1998; 217:177-85. [PMID: 9795205 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00358-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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cDNAs encoding three Drosophila melanogaster MCM proteins, DmMCM3, DmMCM6 and DmMCM7, candidates of DNA replication-licensing factors, were cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino-acid sequences displayed 60, 59 and 68% identities with the respective Xenopus laevis homologues, XMCM3, XMCM6 and XMCM7. Six members of the D. melanogaster MCM family were found to share 31-36% identities in their amino-acid sequences, and to possess the five common domains carrying conserved amino-acid sequences as reported with X. laevis MCM proteins. DmMCM3, DmMCM6 and DmMCM7 genes were mapped to the 4F region on the X chromosome, the 6B region on the X chromosome and the 66E region on the third chromosome, respectively, by in situ hybridization. Contents of their mRNAs were proved to be high in unfertilized eggs and early embryos (0-4h after fertilization), then decrease gradually by the 12h time point, with only low levels detected at later stages of development except in adult females. This fluctuation pattern is similar to those of genes for proteins involved in DNA replication, such as DNA polymerase alpha and proliferating cell nuclear antigen, suggesting that expression of DmMCM genes is under the regulatory mechanism which regulates expression of other genes involved in DNA replication.
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- K Ohno
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan
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Togashi H, Mizushina Y, Takemura M, Sugawara F, Koshino H, Esumi Y, Uzawa J, Kumagai H, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. 4-Hydroxy-17-methylincisterol, an inhibitor of DNA polymerase-alpha activity and the growth of human cancer cells in vitro. Biochem Pharmacol 1998; 56:583-90. [PMID: 9783727 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(98)00197-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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An ergosterol derivative, 4-hydroxy-17-methylincisterol (HMI), was found to be an inhibitor of mammalian DNA polymerases in vitro. HMI inhibited the activity of calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha (pol. alpha). Among the polymerases tested, pol. alpha was the most sensitive to inhibition by HMI, and the inhibition was concentration dependent. The inhibitory effect of HMI on pol. alpha was almost the same as that shown by aphidicolin, a well-known potent pol. alpha inhibitor. HMI had relatively less effect on rat DNA pol. beta, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-RT), and calf thymus terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) in vitro, and did not influence the activities of prokaryotic DNA polymerases such as Klenow Fragment of DNA polymerase I, or the DNA-metabolic enzyme DNase I. HMI was found to be able to prevent the growth of human cancer cell lines originating from patients with leukemia or various solid tumors; its IC50 values ranged from 7.5 to 12 microM. We also synthesized other ergosterol derivatives and tested them, and found that two compounds, 17-methylincisterol and 4-acetyl-17-methylincisterol, have similar inhibitory effects.
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- H Togashi
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Chiba, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Hanashima L, Yamaguchi T, Takemura M, Sugawara F, Saneyoshi M, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. A mushroom fruiting body-inducing substance inhibits activities of replicative DNA polymerases. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 249:17-22. [PMID: 9705823 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We found and isolated two natural products in the extract from a basidiomycete, Ganoderma lucidum, as eukaryotic DNA polymerase inhibitors. The compounds were identified as cerebrosides, (4E,8E)-N-D-2'-hydroxypalmitoyl- 1-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-9-methyl-4,8-sphingadienine and (4E,8E)-N-D-2'-hydroxystearoyl-1-O-beta-D-glucopyranos yl-9-methyl- 4,8-sphingadienine and were found to be identical to the mushroom fruiting body-inducing substances (FIS) reported. These cerebrosides selectively inhibited the activities of replicative DNA polymerases, especially the alpha-type, from phylogenetically broad eukaryotic species, whereas they hardly influenced the activities of DNA polymerase beta, prokaryotic DNA polymerases, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, HIV reverse transcriptase, RNA polymerase, deoxyribonuclease I, and ATPase. The inhibition of another replicative polymerase, the delta-type, was moderate. The inhibitions of the replicative polymerases were dose-dependent, and the IC50 for animal or mushroom DNA polymerase alpha was achieved at approximately 12 micrograms/ml (16.2 microM) and for animal DNA polymerase delta at 57 micrograms/ml (77.2 microM). FIS is possibly a DNA polymerase inhibitor specific to the replicative enzyme group, and the fruiting body formation may be required for the suppression of the DNA replication or the vegetative growth of the mycelium.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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We reported previously [T. Horie, Y. Mizushina, M. Takemura, F. Sugawara, A. Matsukage, S. Yoshida, K. Sakaguchi, Int. J. Mol. Med., 1 (1998) 83-90.] that a 5'-monophosphate form (breMP) of bredinin, which has been used clinically as an immunosuppressive drug, selectively suppressed the activities of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha (pol. alpha) and beta (pol. beta). In a preliminary study of the action mode, for pol. beta, breMP acted by competing with, unexpectedly, not only the substrate but also with the template-primer. The mode might be attributable to the structure and function of pol. beta itself. We therefore investigated the biochemical inhibition mode of pol. beta in more detail by using two pol. beta fragments which were proteolytically separated into the template-primer-binding domain and the catalytic domain. BreMP inhibited only the catalytic activity of the catalytic domain fragment, and could not bind to the template-primer-binding domain fragment, suggesting that it directly competes with the substrate at its binding site of the catalytic domain, and indirectly, but simultaneously and competitively disturbs the template-primer incorporation into the template-primer-binding domain.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Watanabe I, Togashi H, Hanashima L, Takemura M, Ohta K, Sugawara F, Koshino H, Esumi Y, Uzawa J, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. An ergosterol peroxide, a natural product that selectively enhances the inhibitory effect of linoleic acid on DNA polymerase beta. Biol Pharm Bull 1998; 21:444-8. [PMID: 9635497 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.21.444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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As described previously (Mizushina Y., Tanaka N., Yagi H., Kurosawa T., Onoue M., Seto H., Horie T., Aoyagi N., Yamaoka M., Matsukage A., Yoshida S., and Sakaguchi K., Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1308, 256-262, 1996), linoleic acid (LA) inhibits the activities of mammalian DNA polymerases. We found a natural product from a basidiomycete, Ganoderma lucidum, that enhances this effect of LA in a special manner. The structure was identified to be an ergosterol peroxide, 5,8-epidioxy-5alpha,8alpha-ergosta-6,22E-dien -3beta-ol by spectroscopic analyses. The ergosterol peroxide (EPO) itself scarcely inhibited the activities of calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha (pol. alpha) or rat DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta). However, when EPO at 0.25 mM was present, 10 microM or less of LA almost completely inhibited the pol. beta activity, while almost complete inhibition by LA itself was achieved at 80 microM or higher. Interestingly, under the same conditions, EPO did not affect the LA-effect on pol. alpha. The action mode of the EPO was discussed.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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Ohta K, Mizushina Y, Hirata N, Takemura M, Sugawara F, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol, KM043, a new potent inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA polymerases and HIV-reverse transcriptase type 1 from a marine red alga, Gigartina tenella. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 1998; 46:684-6. [PMID: 9579044 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.46.684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A new sulfolipid, KM043, which belongs to the 6-sulfo-alpha-D-quinovopyranosyl-(1-->3')-1',2'-diacylglycerol (SQDG) class of compounds, has been isolated from a marine red alga, Gigartina tenella, as a potent inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA polymerases and HIV-reverse transcriptase type 1. Its structure was determined on the basis of spectroscopic and gas chromatographic analyses. The inhibition was dose-dependent, and complete (more than 90%) inhibition of DNA polymerase alpha (pol. alpha), DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta) and HIV-reverse transcriptase type 1 (HIV-RT) was observed at concentrations of 5, 10, and 30 microM, respectively.
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- K Ohta
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Tanaka N, Kitamura A, Tamai K, Ikeda M, Takemura M, Sugawara F, Arai T, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. The inhibitory effect of novel triterpenoid compounds, fomitellic acids, on DNA polymerase beta. Biochem J 1998; 330 ( Pt 3):1325-32. [PMID: 9494103 PMCID: PMC1219279 DOI: 10.1042/bj3301325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We previously found new triterpenoid compounds, designated fomitellic acid A and B, which selectively inhibit the activities of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha and beta in vitro. On DNA polymerase beta, the fomitellic acids acted by competing with both the substrate and the template primer, but on DNA polymerase alpha, they acted non-competitively. At least on DNA polymerase beta, the evidence suggests that each of the fomitellic acids bind to the active region competing with the substrate and/or template primer, and subsequently inhibits the catalytic activity. We therefore further investigated the enzyme-binding properties by using DNA polymerase beta and its proteolytic fragments. The 39 kDa enzyme was proteolytically separated into two fragments of the template-primer-binding domain (8 kDa) and the catalytic domain (31 kDa). The fomitellic acids bound tightly to the 8 kDa fragment, but not to the 31 kDa fragment. The immuno-precipitation by antibodies against the enzyme or each of the fragments also proved the binding. These results suggest that the fomitellic acid molecule competes with the template-primer molecule on its 8 kDa binding site, binds to the site, and the fomitellic acid molecule simultaneously disturbs the substrate incorporation into the template primer.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Watanabe I, Ohta K, Takemura M, Sahara H, Takahashi N, Gasa S, Sugawara F, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. Studies on inhibitors of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha and beta: sulfolipids from a pteridophyte, Athyrium niponicum. Biochem Pharmacol 1998; 55:537-41. [PMID: 9514090 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(97)00536-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Three sulfolipid compounds, 1, 2, and 3, have been isolated from a higher plant, a pteridophyte, Athyrium niponicum, as potent inhibitors of the activities of calf DNA polymerase alpha and rat DNA polymerase beta. The inhibition by the sulfolipids was concentration dependent, and almost complete inhibition of DNA polymerase alpha and DNA polymerase beta was achieved at 6 and 8 microg/mL, respectively. The compounds did not influence the activities of calf thymus terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, prokaryotic DNA polymerases such as the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I, T4 DNA polymerase and Taq polymerase, the DNA metabolic enzyme DNase I, and even a DNA polymerase from a higher plant, cauliflower. Similarly, the compounds did not inhibit the activity of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase. The kinetic studies of the compounds showed that DNA polymerase alpha was inhibited non-competitively with respect to the DNA template and substrate, whereas DNA polymerase beta was inhibited competitively with both the DNA template and substrate. The binding to DNA polymerase beta could be stopped with non-ionic detergent, but the binding to DNA polymerase alpha could not.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
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Horie T, Mizushina Y, Takemura M, Sugawara F, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. A 5'-monophosphate form of bredinin selectively inhibits the activities of mammalian DNA polymerases in vitro. Int J Mol Med 1998; 1:83-90. [PMID: 9852203 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.1.1.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Bredinin is an immunosuppressive drug which is used clinically in Japan. In this study, we investigated bredinin's molecular mode of action to clarify its immunosuppressive effects. We focused on the DNA polymerases in the somatic DNA synthesis which may be required in the process of lymphocyte differentiation. We found that bredinin-5'-monophosphate (breMP) could be a potent inhibitor of mammalian DNA polymerase alpha(pol.alpha) and (pol.beta) in vitro, although bredinin itself has no such effects. BreMP inhibited the pol. alpha activity at less than 7 micrograms/ml and the pol. activity at 7 micrograms/ml. Neither breMP nor bredinin influenced the activities of a plant DNA polymerase, prokaryotic DNA polymerases such as E. coli DNA polymerase I and Taq DNA polymerase, or DNA-metabolic enzymes such as DNase I, indicating that breMP selectively suppressed the activities of the mammalian DNA polymerases. For pol., beta breMP acted by competing with both the substrate and template-primer. For pol. alpha, it acted by competing only with the substrate, and non-competitively with the template-primer. The ribose of bredinin is quickly and quantitatively converted to its ribose-5'-phosphate form in vivo as soon as it is incorporated into cells. The action mode of bredinin and its use as an immunosuppressive drug are discussed based on these results.
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- T Horie
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Chiba 278, Japan
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Takahashi Y, Yamaguchi M, Hirose F, Kobayashi J, Miyajima S, Matsukage A. Involvement of the DNA replication-related element (DRE) and DRE-binding factor (DREF) in transcriptional regulation of the Bombyx mori PCNA gene. J Biochem 1997; 122:1215-23. [PMID: 9498568 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The promoter region of the Bombyx mori gene encoding the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and its activating factor(s) were analyzed to ascertain similarities with Drosophila regulatory elements. Full promoter activity was established to reside within the region from -466 to +347 base pairs with respect to the transcription initiation site. Within this region, we found a sequence similar to the DNA replication-related element (DRE), 5'-TATCGATA, which is a promoter-activating sequence common to promoters of the Drosophila genes for DNA replication-related factors, including PCNA. A mutation in the DRE-like sequence of the B. mori PCNA gene promoter caused reduction of the promoter activity and also binding to the recombinant Drosophila DRE-binding factor (DREF). Furthermore, a factor(s) binding to the DRE sequence was detected in extracts of B. mori BmN4 cells. Monoclonal antibodies against Drosophila DREF inhibited the binding activity of the factor, as shown by gel mobility shift assays, and allowed specific detection of a 100 kDa protein on immuno Western blot analysis. These results suggest that the B. mori DREF homolog binds to DRE to regulate transcription of the PCNA gene.
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- Y Takahashi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya
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We found previously that long-chain fatty acids could inhibit eukaryotic DNA polymerase activities in vitro [1,2]. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mode of this inhibition in greater detail. Among the C18 to C24 fatty acids examined, the strongest inhibitor was a C24 fatty acid, nervonic acid (NA), and the weakest was a C18 fatty acid, linoleic acid (LA). We analyzed the inhibitory effect of these two fatty acids and their modes of action. For DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta), NA acted by competing with both the substrate- and template-primer, but for DNA polymerase alpha (pol. alpha) or human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1 reverse transcriptase or HIV-RT), NA acted non-competitively. NA-binding to pol. beta could be stopped with a non-ionic detergent, but the binding to pol. alpha or HIV-RT could not. The inhibition mode of LA showed the same characteristics, except that the minimum inhibitory dose of the longer chain was much lower. We also tested the effects of NA and LA using pol. beta and its proteolytic fragments, as described by Kumar et al. [3,4]. Both of the fatty acids were found to bind to the 8 kDa DNA-binding domain fragment, and to suppress binding to the template-primer DNA. We found that 10,000 times more of either fatty acid was required for it to bind to the 31 kDa catalytic domain or inhibit the DNA polymerase activity. The possible modes of inhibition by these long-chain fatty acids are discussed, based on the present findings.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
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Yamaguchi M, Hayashi Y, Hirose F, Nishimoto Y, Matsukage A. Distinct roles of E2F recognition sites as positive or negative elements in regulation of the DNA polymerase alpha 180 kDa catalytic subunit gene promoter during Drosophila development. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3847-54. [PMID: 9380507 PMCID: PMC146973 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.19.3847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The transcription factor E2F plays a key role in transcriptional control during the growth cycle of higher eukaryotic cells. The promoter region of the DrosophilaDNA polymerase alpha 180 kDa catalytic subunit gene contains three E2F recognition sequences located at positions -353 to -342 (E2F site 1), -21 to -14 (E2F site 2) and -12 to -5 (E2F site 3) with respect to the transcription initiation site. Various base substitutions were generated in each or all of the three E2F sites in vitro to allow examination of their effects on E2F binding and promoter function in cultured Kc cells as well as in living flies. Glutathione S-transferase (GST)-E2F and GST-DP fusion proteins were found to cooperate in binding to the three E2F sites in the DNA polymerase alpha gene promoter in vitro. In contrast, an E2F-specific activity detected in nuclear extracts of Kc cells showed little affinity for E2F site 1 but strong binding to sites 2 and 3. Transient expression of Drosophila E2F in Kc cells activated the DNA polymerase alpha gene promoter and the target sites for activation coincided with E2F sites 2 and 3. However, analyses with transgenic flies indicate that E2F site 3 functions positively in terms of DNA polymerase alpha gene promoter activity, while E2F sites 1 and 2 rather have a negative control function. Thus E2F sites play distinct roles as positive or negative elements in regulation of the DNA polymerase alpha gene promoter during Drosophila development.
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- M Yamaguchi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464, Japan.
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Hayashi Y, Hirose F, Nishimoto Y, Shiraki M, Yamagishi M, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M. Identification of CFDD (common regulatory factor for DNA replication and DREF genes) and role of its binding site in regulation of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen gene promoter. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:22848-58. [PMID: 9278447 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.36.22848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The Drosophila proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) gene promoter contains at least three transcriptional regulatory elements, the URE (upstream regulatory element), DRE (DNA replication-related element), and E2F recognition sites. In nuclear extracts of Drosophila Kc cells, we detected a novel protein factor(s), CFDD (common regulatory factor for DNA replication and DREF genes) that appeared to recognize two unique nucleotide sequences (5'-CGATA and 5'-CAATCA) and bind to three sites in the PCNA gene promoter. These sites were located at positions -84 to -77 (site 1), -100 to -93 (site 2) and -134 to -127 (site 3) with respect to the transcription initiation sites. Sites 2 and 3 overlapped with DRE and URE, respectively, and the 5'-CGATA matched with the reported recognition sequence of BEAF-32 (boundary element-associated factor of 32 kDa). Detailed analyses of CFDD recognition sequences and experiments with specific antibodies to DREF (DRE-binding factor) and BEAF-32 suggest that CFDD is different from DREF, UREF (URE-binding factor) and BEAF-32. A UV cross-linking experiment revealed that polypeptides of approximately 76 kDa in the nuclear extract interact directly with the CFDD site 1 sequence. Transient expression assays of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) in Kc cells transfected with PCNA promoter-CAT fusion genes carrying mutations in CFDD site 1 and examination of lacZ expression from PCNA promoter-lacZ fusion genes carrying mutations in site 1, introduced into flies by germ line transformation, revealed that CFDD site 1 plays an important role for the promoter activity both in cultured cells and in living flies. In addition to the PCNA gene, multiple CFDD sites were found in promoters of the DNA polymerase alpha and DREF genes, and CFDD binding to the DREF promoter was confirmed. Therefore, CFDD may play important roles in regulation of Drosophila DNA replication-related genes.
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- Y Hayashi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464, Japan
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Kuge M, Fujii Y, Shimizu T, Hirose F, Matsukage A, Hakoshima T. Use of a fusion protein to obtain crystals suitable for X-ray analysis: crystallization of a GST-fused protein containing the DNA-binding domain of DNA replication-related element-binding factor, DREF. Protein Sci 1997; 6:1783-6. [PMID: 9260294 PMCID: PMC2143758 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Crystals of glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-fused protein containing the DNA-binding domain of DNA replication-related element-binding factor, DREF, were obtained under crystallization conditions similar to those for GST. Preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis revealed that crystals of the GST-fused protein belong to space group P6(1)22 or P6(5)22 with unit cell dimensions a = b = 140.4 A, c = 93.5 A and gamma = 120 degrees, having one molecule in the crystallographic asymmetric unit. The crystals diffract to 2.5 A resolution. The cell dimensions are related to those of GST crystals thus far reported. Crystallization of the DNA-binding domain that was cleaved from the fused protein by thrombin was also carried out using several methods under numerous conditions, but efforts to produce well-ordered large crystals were unsuccessful. A possible application of GST-fusion proteins for small target proteins or domains to obtain crystals suitable for X-ray structure determination is proposed.
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- M Kuge
- Department of Molecular Biology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
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Ryu JR, Choi TY, Kwon EJ, Lee WH, Nishida Y, Hayashi Y, Matsukage A, Yamaguchi M, Yoo MA. Transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila-raf proto-oncogene by the DNA replication-related element (DRE)/DRE-binding factor (DREF) system. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:794-9. [PMID: 9016631 PMCID: PMC146497 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.4.794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The DRE/DREF system plays an important role in transcription of DNA replication genes such as those encoding the 180 and 73 kDa subunits of DNA polymerase alpha as well as that for encoding PCNA. In this study, we found two sequences homologous to DRE (5'-TATCGATA-3') in the 5'-flanking region (-370 to -357 with respect to the transcription initiation site) of the D-raf gene and confirmed transcriptional activity through gel mobility shift assays, transient CAT assays, and spatial patterns of lacZ expression in transgenic larval tissues carrying D-raf and lacZ fusion genes. Further, we demonstrated that the D-raf gene is another target of the Zerknüllt (Zen) protein with observation of D-raf repression by Zen protein in cultured cells and its ectopic expression in the dorsal region of the homozygous zen mutant embryo. The evidence of DRE/DREF involvement in regulation of the D-raf gene obtained in this study strongly supports the idea that the DRE/DREF system is responsible for the coordinated regulation of cell proliferation-related genes in Drosophila.
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- J R Ryu
- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Korea
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We identified a DNA polymerase species in Drosophila melanogaster embryos, and purified it. This polymerase shared some common properties with DNA polymerase epsilon from mammals and yeast as follows; it has a preference for poly(dA)/oligo(dT) as a template/primer, it is highly processive in DNA synthesis, it co-fractionates with 3'-5' exonuclease activity, it is sensitive to aphidicolin and is resistance to ddTTP. The polymerase activity was inhibited in the immuno-precipitation assay with anti-pol-epsilon antibodies, which were produced against a polypeptide coded on the cDNA of a putative Drosophila pol-epsilon we isolated previously. Using these antibodies, Western blot analysis revealed that this polymerase is a 250kDa polypeptide, which is the same size as observed in mammals and yeast. These results indicate that Drosophila produces the epsilon-class of DNA polymerase, and like mammals or yeast, possesses the 5 typical classes of DNA polymerases (alpha to epsilon) in its embryos.
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- N Aoyagi
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Noda-shi, Japan
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Matsukage A. [Replication of chromosomal DNA: process for its initiation]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1996; 41:2369-77. [PMID: 8952399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- A Matsukage
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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Ohno K, Hirose F, Sakaguchi K, Nishida Y, Matsukage A. Transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila CycA gene by the DNA replication-related element (DRE) and DRE binding factor (DREF). Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:3942-6. [PMID: 8918795 PMCID: PMC146190 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.20.3942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The Drosophila gene for cyclin A is expressed in dividing cells throughout development. This expression pattern is similar to those of genes related to DNA replication, suggesting involvement of some common control mechanism(s). In the upstream region (-71 to -64 with respect to the transcription initiation site) of the CycA gene, we found a sequence identical to the DNA replication-related element (DRE; 5'-TATCGATA), which is important for high level expression of replication-related genes such as those encoding DNA polymerase alpha and proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Transient expression assays with chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) were carried out to examine the function of the DRE sequence of the CycA gene. Deletion or base substitution mutations resulted in an extensive reduction in CAT expression. Furthermore, monoclonal antibodies against DRE binding factor (DREF) diminished or supershifted the complex of the DREF and DRE-containing fragment. The results indicate that the Drosophila CycA gene is under the control of a DRE/DREF system, as are DNA replication-related genes.
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- K Ohno
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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Mizushina Y, Tanaka N, Yagi H, Kurosawa T, Onoue M, Seto H, Horie T, Aoyagi N, Yamaoka M, Matsukage A, Yoshida S, Sakaguchi K. Fatty acids selectively inhibit eukaryotic DNA polymerase activities in vitro. Biochim Biophys Acta 1996; 1308:256-62. [PMID: 8809118 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(96)00121-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The in vitro relationship between eukaryotic DNA polymerases and fatty acids was investigated. Some fatty acids strongly inhibited the activities of DNA polymerase alpha and/or beta in vitro. The kinetics of inhibition by linoleic acid showed that DNA polymerase alpha was non-competitively inhibited with respect to the DNA template and substrate (dTTP), while DNA polymerase beta was inhibited competitively with both DNA and substrate.
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- Y Mizushina
- Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba-ken, Japan
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Takahashi Y, Yamaguchi M, Hirose F, Cotterill S, Kobayashi J, Miyajima S, Matsukage A. DNA replication-related elements cooperate to enhance promoter activity of the drosophila DNA polymerase alpha 73-kDa subunit gene. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:14541-7. [PMID: 8662923 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.24.14541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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An analysis was carried out on the promoter region of the Drosophila DNA polymerase alpha 73-kDa subunit gene and the factor(s) activating the promoter. Transcription initiation sites were newly identified in the region downstream of the previously determined sites. Full promoter activity resided within the region from -285 to +129 base pairs with respect to the newly determined major site. Within this region, we found three sequences identical or similar to the DNA replication-related element (DRE), 5'-TATCGATA, which is known as a common promoter-activating element for the Drosophila DNA polymerase alpha 180-kDa subunit gene and the proliferating cell nuclear antigen gene. These sites were located at positions -77 to -70 (DREalpha-I), -44 to -37 (DREalpha-II), and +3 to +10 (DREalpha-III). Footprinting analysis using the recombinant DRE-binding factor (DREF) or Kc cell nuclear extract demonstrated that DREF can bind to all three DRE-related sites. Introduction of mutation in even one of the three DRE-related sequences caused extensive reductions of the promoter activity and also the DREF-binding activity of the promoter-containing fragment. The results indicate that the three DREF-binding sites cooperate to enhance promoter activity of the DNA polymerase alpha 73-kDa subunit gene.
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- Y Takahashi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464, Japan
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