Nuclear Pore Component Nup98 is a Potential Tumor Suppressor and Regulates Posttranscriptional Expression of Select P53 Target Genes

Overview

Journal Mol Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2012 Oct 30

PMID 23102701

Citations 40

Authors

Stephan Singer

Ruiying Zhao

Anthony M Barsotti

Anette Ouwehand

Mina Fazollahi

Elias Coutavas

Kai Breuhahn

Olaf Neumann

Thomas Longerich

Tobias Pusterla

Maureen A Powers

Keith M Giles

Peter J Leedman

Jochen Hess

David Grunwald

Harmen J Bussemaker

Robert H Singer

Peter Schirmacher

Carol Prives

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Abstract

The p53 tumor suppressor utilizes multiple mechanisms to selectively regulate its myriad target genes, which in turn mediate diverse cellular processes. Here, using conventional and single-molecule mRNA analyses, we demonstrate that the nucleoporin Nup98 is required for full expression of p21, a key effector of the p53 pathway, but not several other p53 target genes. Nup98 regulates p21 mRNA levels by a posttranscriptional mechanism in which a complex containing Nup98 and the p21 mRNA 3'UTR protects p21 mRNA from degradation by the exosome. An in silico approach revealed another p53 target (14-3-3σ) to be similarly regulated by Nup98. The expression of Nup98 is reduced in murine and human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) and correlates with p21 expression in HCC patients. Our study elucidates a previously unrecognized function of wild-type Nup98 in regulating select p53 target genes that is distinct from the well-characterized oncogenic properties of Nup98 fusion proteins.

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