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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3563| Title: | Human securin, hPTTG, is associated with Ku heterodimer, the regulatory subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase |
| Authors: | Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (España) Junta de Andalucía European Commission Rhône-Poulenc |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Description: | 8 pages, 5 figures, 58 references. We have previously isolated the hpttg proto-oncogene, which is expressed in normal tissues containing proliferating cells and in several kinds of tumors. In fact, expression of hPTTG correlates with cell proliferation in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Recently it was reported that PTTG is a vertebrate analog of the yeast securins Pds1 and Cut2, which are involved in sister chromatid separation. Here we show that hPTTG binds to Ku, the regulatory subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK). hPTTG and Ku associate both in vitro and in vivo and the DNA-PK catalytic subunit phosphorylates hPTTG in vitro. Furthermore, DNA double-strand breaks prevent hPTTG–Ku association and disrupt the hPTTG–Ku complexes, indicating that genome damaging events, which result in the induction of pathways that activate DNA repair mechanisms and halt cell cycle progression, might inhibit hPTTG–Ku interaction in vivo. We propose that hPTTG might connect DNA damage-response pathways with sister chromatid separation, delaying the onset of mitosis while DNA repair occurs. This work was supported by grants from Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (MEC) of Spain (SAF99-0125-C03-01), from DGUI of the Junta de Andalucía and from Rhône-Poulenc Rorer (Paris, France). F.R. was supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the EU and Spanish MEC. Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3563 |
| Other Identifiers: | Nucleic Acids Research 29(6): 1300–1307 (2001) 1362-4962 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3563 |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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