Interaction of the Tumor Suppressor p53 with Replication Protein A.
Abstract
The DNA replication factor RPA physically associates with the tumor suppressor protein p53, an interaction that could be important for the function of both these proteins in normal and cancer cells. We have made small deletion fragments of the p53 protein and expressed them as GST-fusion proteins. These fragments showed that RPA binds to point mutations in p53. Two such mutant forms of p53 have the desired property of not binding RPA. Both these mutant versions of p53 retain wild type transcriptional activation property. Thus we are now in the position to use these mutant versions of p53 to test whether the RPA binding ability of p53 is important for its multiple functions. Deletion fragments of Rpal were made by in- vitro transcription translation to determine which parts of Rpal bound to p53. Binding to p53 requires a region of Rpal overlapping with the high affinity binding site for DNA explaining how p53 could competitively interfere with the DNA binding function of RPA. The evolutionarily conserved putative zinc finger near the C terminus of Rpal was not required for binding to p53.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 15, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA303827
Entities
People
- Anindya Dutta
Organizations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital