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Yeast As a Chassis for Developing Functional Assays to Study Human P53
Published on: August 4, 2019
El supresor de tumores p53 es un activador transcripcional directo del gen bax humano
1La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, California 92037.
Cell
|January 27, 1995
Resumen
El gen bax está regulado directamente por la proteína supresora de tumores p53. Este estudio muestra que p53 se une al promotor de bax, activando la expresión génica y induciendo potencialmente la apoptosis.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Genética del cáncer Genética del cáncer.
Sus antecedentes:
- La proteína supresora de tumores p53 juega un papel crítico en las respuestas celulares al daño del ADN.
- El gen bax es un factor pro-apoptótico a menudo implicado en el desarrollo del cáncer.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar si el gen bax es un objetivo transcripcional directo de p53.
- Para dilucidar el mecanismo de la regulación mediada por p53 de la expresión génica bax.
Principales métodos:
- Ensayos del gen reportero (transfección) utilizando construcciones de promotores bax en células deficientes en p53.
- Mutagénesis dirigida al sitio de los sitios putativos de unión a p53 dentro del promotor de bax.
- Pruebas de retardo de gel para evaluar la unión de la proteína p53 al ADN promotor de bax.
Principales resultados:
- Tipo salvaje p53, pero no p53 mutante, la expresión génica del reportero transactivado impulsado por el promotor bax.
- Una región promotora de bax de 39 bp que contenía sitios de unión p53 de consenso fue suficiente para la transactivación mediada por p53.
- La mutación de estos sitios abolió la capacidad de respuesta de p53.
- La proteína p53 de tipo salvaje demostró una unión directa a la región promotora de bax en ensayos de retardación del gel.
Conclusiones:
- El gen bax es un objetivo transcripcional directo de p53.
- p53 se une a secuencias de consenso específicas en el promotor bax para regular su expresión.
- Estos hallazgos identifican a bax como un gen de respuesta primaria en las vías de apoptosis mediadas por p53.
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