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p53 Down-Regulates Phosphatase and Tensin Homologue Deleted on Chromosome 10 Protein Stability Partially through Caspase-Mediated Degradation in Cells with Proteasome Dysfunction

¹ Genomic Medicine Institute, ² Lerner Research Institute, and ³ Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; ⁴ Department of Genetics and ⁵ Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio and ⁶ Cancer Research UK Human Cancer Genetics Research Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Requests for reprints: Charis Eng, Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Mailstop NE-50, Cleveland, OH 44195. Phone: 216-444-3440; Fax: 216-636-0655; E-mail: engc{at}ccf.org.

There has been intense investigation regarding the interaction between the phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) and p53 tumor suppressors. p53 has been shown to up-regulate PTEN expression as a transcriptional activator. However, clinical observations by immunohistochemistry studies indicate that significant increases in p53 protein levels coexist with reduced or absent expression of PTEN protein in a variety of neoplasias. In this study, we propose a mechanism that begins to explain how p53 can both up-regulate and down-regulate PTEN. We have found that PTEN protein is down-regulated under proteasome dysfunction induced by proteasome inhibitor MG132 in both human lymphoblast cells and MCF7 cells. The reduction of PTEN is coincident with elevated p53 protein levels and the association between PTEN and p53 but independent of its phosphatase activities. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR indicates that proteasome inhibition does not reduce PTEN message levels but affects PTEN protein stability. The p53 inhibitor, pifithrin-, is able to attenuate the effect of proteasome inhibition. Using ectopic expression studies in p53-null mouse embryonic fibroblasts and p53/PTEN-null PC3 cells, we show that PTEN is more stable in p53-null cells compared with p53-expressing cells. Inhibition of caspases, the downstream targets of p53, particularly caspase-3, can partially restore the stability of PTEN. This study provides the first evidence that p53 is able to down-regulate PTEN protein stability in stressed cells. Our study sheds some light on the mechanisms that regulate PTEN protein stability, which is important to fully elucidate to comprehend the broad neoplastic manifestations of Cowden syndrome/Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba and sporadic cancers. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(12): 6139-48)

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