Programmed cell death 5 mediates HDAC3 decay to promote genotoxic stress response

• Published in: Nature communications 2015-06, Vol.6 (1), p.7390-7390, Article 7390
• Main Authors: Choi, Hyo-Kyoung, Choi, Youngsok, Park, Eun Sung, Park, Soo-Yeon, Lee, Seung-Hyun, Seo, Jaesung, Jeong, Mi-Hyeon, Jeong, Jae-Wook, Cheong, Jae-Ho, Lee, Peter C. W., Choi, Kyung-Chul, Yoon, Ho-Geun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 631/337/100/2285; 631/80/82/23; 692/699/67/1504/1829; 96; 96/2; Animals; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins - genetics; Casein Kinase II - metabolism; Cell death; Cell Line, Tumor; Chromatin Immunoprecipitation; DNA Damage - genetics; Fibroblasts - metabolism; Gene Expression Profiling; HCT116 Cells; Histone Deacetylases - metabolism; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Immunoprecipitation; In Situ Nick-End Labeling; Karyopherins - metabolism; Mass Spectrometry; Mice; Mice, Knockout; multidisciplinary; Neoplasm Proteins - genetics; Neoplasm Transplantation; Phosphorylation; Prognosis; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Stomach Neoplasms - genetics; Stomach Neoplasms - metabolism; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 - metabolism
• ISSN: 2041-1723; 2041-1723
• DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8390

The inhibition of p53 activity by histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) has been reported, but the precise molecular mechanism is unknown. Here we show that programmed cell death 5 (PDCD5) selectively mediates HDAC3 dissociation from p53, which induces HDAC3 cleavage and ubiquitin-dependent proteasomal degradation. Casein kinase 2 alpha phosphorylates PDCD5 at Ser-119 to enhance its stability and importin 13-mediated nuclear translocation of PDCD5. Genetic deletion of PDCD5 abrogates etoposide (ET)-induced p53 stabilization and HDAC3 cleavage, indicating an essential role of PDCD5 in p53 activation. Restoration of PDCD5 WT in PDCD5 −/− MEFs restores ET-induced HDAC3 cleavage. Reduction of both PDCD5 and p53, but not reduction of either protein alone, significantly enhances in vivo tumorigenicity of AGS gastric cancer cells and correlates with poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients. Our results define a mechanism for p53 activation via PDCD5-dependent HDAC3 decay under genotoxic stress conditions. The tumour suppressor p53 is known to be inhibited by histone deacetylase 3 but the molecular mechanism is poorly understood. Here Choi et al . show regulation by programmed cell death 5 and an essential role in activating p53 following DNA damage.