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RASSF1A Interacts with Microtubule-Associated Proteins and Modulates Microtubule Dynamics

¹ Section of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Division of Reproductive and Child Health, University of Birmingham, The Medical School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ² Department of Cell and Cancer Biology, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland; ³ Signal Transduction Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom; and ⁴ Cancer Research UK, Renal Molecular Oncology Research Group, University of Birmingham, The Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom

The candidate tumor suppressor gene RASSF1A is inactivated in many types of adult and childhood cancers. However, the mechanisms by which RASSF1A exerts its tumor suppressive functions have yet to be elucidated. To this end, we performed a yeast two-hybrid screen to identify novel RASSF1A-interacting proteins in a human brain cDNA library. Seventy percent of interacting clones had homology to microtubule-associated proteins, including MAP1B and VCY2IP1/C19ORF5. RASSF1A association with MAP1B and VCY2IP1/C19ORF5 was subsequently confirmed in mammalian cell lines. This suggested that RASSF1A may exert its tumor-suppressive functions through interaction with the microtubules. We demonstrate that RASSF1A associates with the microtubules, causing them to exist as hyperstabilized circular bundles. We found that two naturally occurring tumor-associated missense substitutions in the RASSF1A coding region, C65R and R257Q, perturb the association of RASSF1A with the microtubules. The C65R and R257Q in addition to VCY2IP1/C19ORF5 showed reduced ability to induce microtubule acetylation and were unable to protect the microtubules against the depolymerizing action of nocodazole. In addition, wild-type RASSF1A but not the C65R or the R257Q is able to block DNA synthesis. Our data identify a role for RASSF1A in the regulation of microtubules and cell cycle dynamics that could be part of the mechanism(s) by which RASSF1A exerts its growth inhibition on cancer cells.

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