Abstract
Tumor susceptibility gene TSG101 plays an important role in cellular functions including intracellular protein sorting, vesicular trafficking, and transcription regulation. Our previous results from yeast two-hybrid screening show that TSG101 interacts with a novel transcriptional repressor protein, KLIP1. In this study, we demonstrated in vivo interaction between TSG101 and KLIP1 in nucleus of 293 cells using co-immunoprecipitation assay and confocal imaging. In addition, we found KLIP1 could be modified in a modality of either poly- and mono-ubiquitination when exogenously expressed in 293 cells in conjunction with either wild type His-tagged ubiquitin or a mutant His-tagged ubiquitin (K0-Ub) which has no capability of forming polyubiquitin chain. Furthermore, we found that TSG101 could increase 60 kDa-KLIP1, but decrease 71 kDa-KLIP1 levels of monoubiquitinated KLIP1 protein species in a dose dependent manner. These results indicate that TSG101 might regulate KLIP1 protein function through affecting its monoubiquitin modification status. Further investigation using wildtype pHA-KLIP1 and mutant pHA-KLIP1-M6 containing mutation in its 6 lysine residues for possible ubiquitin modification revealed that wildtype HA-KLIP1, but not HA-KLIP1-M6, could inhibit transcription activity of thymidine kinase (TK) promoter. In conclusion, our results support that TSG101 interacts and acts as a transcriptional co-repressor of KLIP1 by keeping it in 60 kDa-monoubiquitinated status in the nucleus, where KLIP1 functions as a transcription repressor for TK promoter. Further experiment using mutant HA-KLIP1 expression plasmid containing single mutation in the 6 lysine sites should reveal the exact location of ubiquitin-modified lysine site for monoubiquitinated species of KLIP1 protein.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0829108-152942 |
| Date | 29 August 2008 |
| Creators | Hung, Kuo-Hsuan |
| Contributors | Yi-Ren Hong, Jiin-Tsuey Cheng, Chi-Huei Wang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0829108-152942 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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