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Regulation of p21^WAF1/CIP1 Expression through Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Signaling Pathway

Gene Expression and Aging Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland 21224

p21^WAF1/CIP1 is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor whose expression in mammalian tissues is highly induced in response to stress as well as during normal development and differentiation. Induction of p21^WAF1/CIP1 in response to DNA damage occurs through a transcriptional mechanism that is dependent on the activation of the tumor suppressor protein p53. Recent evidence indicates that p21^WAF1/CIP1 can also be induced independent of p53, but the signal transduction mechanisms involved in regulating p21^WAF1/CIP1 expression in these situations have not been elucidated. In this study, we have addressed the role of the mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway in the induction of p21^WAF1/CIP1 in response to growth factor treatment. Using an experimental approach involving cotransfection of a p21^WAF1/CIP1 promoter-luciferase construct with a variety of plasmids expressing dominant positive or dominant negative mutant proteins involved in this signaling pathway, we provide evidence to support a role for mitogen-activated protein kinase in the transcriptional activation of p21^WAF1/CIP1 by growth factor stimulation.

¹ To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Gene Expression and Aging Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224.

Received 9/19/95. Accepted 11/13/95.

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