Constitutive expression of B-myb can bypass p53-induced Waf1/Cip1-mediated G1 arrest.
- 11 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 91 (21) , 10079-10083
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.21.10079
Abstract
Overexpression of wild-type p53 protein has been shown to induce arrest in the G1 stage of the cell cycle and to transactivate expression of the gene that encodes the 21-kDa Waf1/Cip1 protein, a potent inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase activity. p53-dependent G1 arrest is accompanied by decreased expression of the B-myb gene, a relative of the c-myb cellular oncogene. In this study we show that B-myb expression is required for cells to progress from G1 into S phase and that high levels of ectopic B-myb expression uncoupled from cell cycle regulation rescues cells from p53-induced G1 arrest even in the presence of Waf1/Cip1 transactivation and inhibition of cyclin E/Cdk2 kinase activity. Cotransfection experiments with p53 expression plasmids and expression plasmids encoding in-frame deletion mutations in B-myb coding sequences indicate that the DNA-binding domain of the B-Myb protein is required for this activity. These results provide evidence of a bypass of p53-induced Waf1/Cip1-mediated cell cycle regulatory pathways by a member of the myb oncogene family.Keywords
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