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Department of Molecular Biology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan School of Medicine, Kitakyushu Fukuoka 807-8555 [T. Is., G. N., T. Im., K. Ka., H. T., M. N., H. I., H. O., K. Ko.]; and Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University School of Medicine, Fukuoka 812-8582 [T. Ok., T. Oh., T. U., M. K.], Japan
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| Introduction |
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, and MDR1 genes, have been found to contain a Y-box in their promoter region (3)
. Interestingly, the family of Y-box binding proteins has been shown to contain a unique DNA-binding domain, the cold shock domain, which is highly conserved from prokaryote to eukaryote (2)
. In previous reports from our laboratory, we demonstrated that MDR1 promoter activity increases in response to various environmental stresses in a manner that is dependent on both the inverted CCAAT box and YB-1 (4) . We have also shown that YB-1, which is expressed ubiquitously in human tissues, is overexpressed in human cancer cell lines that are resistant to cisplatin (5) . In addition, we have found that transfection of cells with a mammalian expression vector expressing YB-1 antisense RNA leads to increased drug sensitivity to cisplatin (5) . Taken together, these findings suggest that YB-1 may recognize regions of DNA modified by cisplatin and that it may participate in DNA repair processes.
Cisplatin is a widely used anticancer agent; its therapeutic efficacy is believed to result from its interaction with DNA (6 , 7) . Cisplatin has been shown to cause the formation of intrastrand cross-links between adjacent purines in genomic DNA. The major cisplatin DNA cross-links are intrastrand 1, 2-d (GpG) and d (ApG), whereas the minor cross-links include intrastrand 1,3-d (GpNpG) (7) . Because major cross-links are not formed by transplatin, the inactive isomer of cisplatin, attention has focused on the major cross-links and the cellular proteins that specifically recognize these cross-links (6) .
Cellular proteins that recognize these cross-links and that bind preferentially to cisplatin-modified DNA include HMG1, HMG2 (8) , and XPA (9) ; several mechanisms have been suggested for their activity (10 , 11) . Both HMG1 and HMG2 are members of the abundant HMG of nonhistone chromosomal proteins, and both have been shown to contain two internal repeat HMG boxes that mediate DNA binding (12) .
Both are implicated in various cellular processes, including transcription and DNA repair (8 , 12) . XPA is a zinc finger DNA-binding protein that is altered in group A xeroderma pigmentosum cells, and it has been shown to be involved in the damage recognition steps of the NER processes (11 , 13) .
Although our previous results have suggested indirectly that YB-1 is associated with cisplatin resistance, there has been no direct demonstration that YB-1 binds to cisplatin-modified DNA. Furthermore, although both HMG1 and HMG2 are known to function as class II transcription factors (8) , the ability of a sequence-specific transcription factor to preferentially recognize cisplatin-modified DNA has not been shown. Here, we demonstrate that YB-1 binds to cisplatin-modified DNA and that it interacts with PCNA, an essential protein in DNA repair.
| Materials and Methods |
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Preparation of Cisplatin-modified Oligonucleotides.
Twenty-base-long oligonucleotides were annealed with the complementary strands. The double-stranded oligonucleotides were end-labeled with [
-32P]ATP (Amersham) using polynucleotide kinase (Takara Suzo, Kyoto, Japan), and half of each was treated with cisplatin (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO; Ref. 11
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Expression of Fusion Protein.
Total RNA was prepared from KB cells, and full-length cDNAs for human YB-1, HMG1, HMG2, XPA, and PCNA were amplified by reverse transcription-PCR using the following primer pairs (initiation codons are underlined): YB-1, 5'-ATGAGCAGCGAGGCCGAGACC-3'(5A) and 5'-TTTATCTGGTTGCAAACGG-3'(3A); HMG1, 5'-AACATGGGCAAAGGAGATCC-3' and 5'-TACCAGGCAAGGTTAGTGGG-3'; HMG2, 5'-TCAACATGGGTAAAGGAGACCC-3' and 5'-ACACACACACATTCCACACG-3'; XPA, 5'-CCAGAGATGGCGGCGG-3' and 5'-ATCACATTTTTTCATATGTCAGTTCATGGCCAC-3'; and PCNA, 5'-CCACCATGTTCGAGGCGCGC-3' and 5'-GCCTAAGATCCTTCTTCATCCTCGATCTTGG-3'.
The PCR products were cloned into pGEM-T Easy (Promega) and sequenced. The cDNA fragments, purified from the gel after digestion with appropriate restriction enzymes (Takara Suzo) or linker ligation, were cloned into the expression vectors, pGEX-4T (Pharmacia) or pThioHis (Invitrogen). The oligonucleotides used for YB-1 deletion constructs were: 5'-ACAAGAAGGTCATCGCAACG-3'(5B), 5'-GGTGGTGTTCCAGTTCAAGG-3'(5C), and 5'-CCAGGACCTGTAACATTTGC-3'(3B).
Different portions of YB-1 cDNA were prepared by PCR amplification with suitable primers and cloned into pGEM-T Easy. The cDNA fragments were gel-purified after digestion with appropriate enzymes and cloned into pGEX-4T. For construction of GST-YB-1
2, a subclone of YB-1 cDNA was digested with EcoRI and SalI and cloned into pGEX-4T. After transformation, bacterial clones producing fusion proteins were screened by Western blotting, using antibodies specific to GST or TRX.
Electrophoretic Mobility-Shift Assay.
Fusion proteins were purified according to the manufacturers protocol (Pharmacia) and used directly for electrophoretic mobility-shift assay. The binding reactions were performed by incubating a 20-ml mixture of 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.9), 20 mM NaCl, 0.5 µg of poly(dI·dC), 0.5 µg of BSA, and 4ng of radiolabeled oligonucleotides for 30 min at room temperature and analyzing the products on 4% polyacrylamide gels in 0.5x Tris-borate EDTA buffer, followed by autoradiography, as described previously (4)
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Pull-down Assay.
Nuclear extract was prepared from KB cells as described previously (14)
and dialyzed against buffer A [20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 0.5 mM EDTA, 20% glycerol, 1 mM DTT, and 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride], containing 0.5 M KCl. GST and TRX fusion proteins were dialyzed against the same buffer, also containing 1% NP40. Affinity columns were prepared by immobilizing GST or GST fusion proteins on glutathione-Sepharose beads 4B (Pharmacia). KB nuclear extracts or TRX fusion proteins were loaded onto 20-µl affinity columns containing GST fusion proteins and incubated for 1 h at 4°C. After being washed five times with 1 ml of buffer A containing 100 mM KCl and 0.1% NP40, bound proteins were eluted with buffer A containing 1 M KCl. Column eluates and 1% of the starting material were subjected to SDS-PAGE.
Coimmunoprecipitation Assay.
KB cells growing in 100-mm tissue culture dishes were washed with ice-cold PBS and lysed with NET-gel buffer [50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 0.1% NP40, 1 mM EDTA, 0.25% gelatin, 0.02% sodium azide, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 10 µg/ml leupeptin, and 10 µg/ml aprotinin; Ref. 15
]. Extracts were cleared by centrifugation at 10,000 x g for 10 min, and antibody was added to the supernatant and incubated for 1 h at 4°C. Protein A-Sepharose was added subsequently and incubated for 1 h at 4°C. The beads were washed twice with NET-gel buffer and once with 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5)-0.1% NP40. The precipitate and starting material were dissolved in sample buffer for subsequent electrophoresis and Western blot analysis.
Electrophoresis and Immunoblot Analysis.
Protein fractions were separated by SDS-PAGE on a 1215% gel, followed by transfer to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes for 1 h using a semidry blotting apparatus. After incubation with antibody for 1 h at room temperature, the blots were incubated with a secondary antibody and visualized by the Western Blot Chemiluminescence Reagent Plus (NEN Life Science Products, Boston, MA).
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1 and GST-YB-1
3 but not GST-YB-1
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4, and
5, indicating that amino acids 205317 of the YB-1 protein interact directly with PCNA (Fig. 5C)
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| Discussion |
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Several nuclear proteins that recognize cisplatin-DNA adducts have been characterized (6 , 7) . Among the HMG protein family, HMG1 and HMG2 have been shown to bind specifically to DNA that contains cisplatin-induced intrastrand cross-links (16) . There has been no direct evidence, however, to suggest that HMG1 and HMG2 are involved in cisplatin sensitivity. Although IXRI, a yeast protein containing a HMG box, confers sensitivity to cisplatin, a correlation between the cellular levels of HMG proteins and the repair of damaged DNA has not been demonstrated (17) .
YB-1 has been shown to bind preferentially to apurinic DNA or single-stranded DNA but not to UV-irradiated DNA, suggesting that this protein may bind preferentially to structurally altered DNA (18) . We have observed that YB-1 is overexpressed in cisplatin-resistant cell lines and that the amount of YB-1 in cells correlates with the sensitivity of these cells to cisplatin (4) , suggesting that YB-1 is directly involved in both the cellular response to cisplatin and cisplatin resistance. Here, we showed that this sequence-specific transcription factor binds preferentially to cisplatin-modified DNA. Taken together with our previous finding that cisplatin induces MDR gene expression (4) , our results suggest that cisplatin may activate MDR1 gene expression by stimulating access of YB-1 to the Y-box in the promoter region of the MDR1 gene.
We previously showed that YB-1 is detected primarily in the cytoplasmic fraction of cells and that it accumulates in the nucleus when the cells were treated with UV irradiation or anticancer agents (19) . When we fused green fluorescent protein to YB-1 containing a deletion at its COOH terminus; however, we detected all of the protein in the nucleus, even in the absence of DNA-modifying agents (19) . These findings suggest that the anchor protein responsible for the cytoplasmic retention of YB-1 interacts with the COOH-terminal domain of the latter, a domain that has been implicated in many types of protein-protein interaction.
Among the proteins involved in DNA repair, PCNA has been shown to be essential in both the mismatch and NER pathways and to interact with various proteins, including DNA ligase I (20)
, Cip I (21)
, and DNA methyltransferase (22)
. We have now demonstrated that YB-1 interacts directly with PCNA in vitro and in vivo (Figs. 4
and 5)
and that it is the COOH-terminal domain of YB-1 that is involved in its binding to PCNA. Because large amounts of PCNA are localized in the cytoplasm of cells, it is possible that YB-1 and PCNA function to anchor each other in the cytoplasm.
Cells deficient in DNA repair have been found to be especially sensitive to cisplatin. In fact, DNA repair activity has been implicated as a main cause of the resistance of many cell lines to cisplatin. Thus, the cellular sensitivity to cisplatin may be determined by a dynamic interaction between DNA damage recognition and DNA repair proteins. Although the mechanism for the function of YB-1 is not yet known, our findings suggest that YB-1, through its involvement in transcription-coupled repair, may be important in enhancing cellular DNA repair. In addition, because a higher-order complex, consisting of transcription factor II H, DNA repair proteins, and DNA damage recognition factors, has been observed in yeast (13) , it may be of interest to determine whether YB-1 also interacts with transcription factor II H.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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| FOOTNOTES |
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1 This study was supported by a grant-in aid for cancer research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan, and from the Fukuoka Anticancer Research Fund (Fukuoka, Japan). ![]()
2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Molecular Biology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan. Phone: 81-93-691-7423; Fax: 81-93-692-2766; E-mail: k-kohno{at}med.uoeh-u.ac.jp ![]()
3 The abbreviations used are: YB-1, Y-box binding protein 1; MDR1, multidrug resistance 1; HMG, high mobility group; XPA, xeroderma pigmentosum group A; NER, nucleotide excision repair; PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen; GST, glutathione S-transferase; TRX, thioredoxin. ![]()
Received 10/22/98. Accepted 12/ 1/98.
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