Human Gene Set: KUMAMOTO_RESPONSE_TO_NUTLIN_3A_DN


Standard name KUMAMOTO_RESPONSE_TO_NUTLIN_3A_DN
Systematic name M6379
Brief description Genes down-regulated in response to nutlin-3a [PubChem=216345], an inhibitor of MDM2 [GeneID=4193], in skin fibroblast cultures after knockdown of TP53 [GeneID=7157] by RNAi.
Full description or abstract Nutlin-3, an MDM2 inhibitor, activates p53, resulting in several types of cancer cells undergoing apoptosis. Although p53 is mutated or deleted in approximately 50% of all cancers, p53 is still functionally active in the other 50%. Consequently, nutlin-3 and similar drugs could be candidates for neoadjuvant therapy in cancers with a functional p53. Cellular senescence is also a phenotype induced by p53 activation and plays a critical role in protecting against tumor development. In this report, we found that nutlin-3a can induce senescence in normal human fibroblasts. Nutlin-3a activated and repressed a large number of p53-dependent genes, including those encoding microRNAs. mir-34a, mir-34b, and mir-34c, which have recently been shown to be downstream effectors of p53-mediated senescence, were up-regulated, and inhibitor of growth 2 (ING2) expression was suppressed by nutlin-3a treatment. Two candidates for a p53-DNA binding consensus sequence were found in the ING2 promoter regulatory region; thus, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation and electrophoretic mobility shift assays and confirmed p53 binding directly to those sites. In addition, the luciferase activity of a construct containing the ING2 regulatory region was repressed after p53 activation. Antisense knockdown of ING2 induces p53-independent senescence, whereas overexpression of ING2 induces p53-dependent senescence. Taken together, we conclude that nutlin-3a induces senescence through p53 activation in normal human fibroblasts, and p53-mediated mir34a, mir34b, and mir34c up-regulation and ING2 down-regulation may be involved in the senescence pathway.
Collection C2: Curated
      CGP: Chemical and Genetic Perturbations
Source publication Pubmed 18451145   Authors: Kumamoto K,Spillare EA,Fujita K,Horikawa I,Yamashita T,Appella E,Nagashima M,Takenoshita S,Yokota J,Harris CC
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