Article
Activating transcription factor 3, a stress sensor, activates p53 by blocking its ubiquitination.
The EMBO journal - 6 Jul 2005
Yan Chunhong, Lu Dan, Hai Tsonwin, Boyd Douglas D
Abstract excerpt
Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3) is rapidly induced by diverse environmental insults including genotoxic stress. We report herein that its interaction with p53, enhanced by genotoxic stress, stabilizes the tumor suppressor thereby augmenting functions of the latter. Overexpression of ATF3 (but not a mutated ATF3 protein (Delta102-139) devoid of its p53-binding region) prevents p53 from MDM2-mediated...
Topics
- Activating Transcription Factor 3
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Cell Line
- Cell Nucleus
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- DNA Damage
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Fibroblasts
- Genes, ras
