Sumoylation participates in the regulation of YB-1-mediated mismatch repair deficiency and alkylator tolerance

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Numerous reports indicate that enhanced expression of Y-box binding protein-1 (YB-1) in tumor cells is strongly associated with tumorigenesis, aggressiveness, drug resistance, as well as poor prognosis in several types of cancers, and YB-1 is considered to be an oncogene. The molecular mechanism contributing to the regulation of the biological activities of YB-1 remains obscure. Sumoylation, a post-translational modification involving the covalent conjugation of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins to a target protein, plays key roles in the modulation of protein functions. In this study, our results revealed that YB-1 is sumoylated and that Lys26 is a critical residue for YB-1 sumoylation. Moreover, YB-1 was found to directly interact with SUMO proteins, and disruption of the SUMO-interacting motif (SIM) of YB-1 not only interfered with this interaction but also diminished YB-1 sumoylation. The subcellular localization, protein stability, and transcriptional regulatory activity of YB-1 were not significantly affected by sumoylation. However, decreased sumoylation disrupted the interaction between YB-1 and PCNA as well as YB-1-mediated inhibition of the MutSα/PCNA interaction and MutSα mismatch binding activity, indicating a functional role of YB-1 sumoylation in inducing DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency and spontaneous mutations. The MMR machinery also recognizes alkylator-modified DNA adducts to signal for cell death. We further demonstrated that YB-1 sumoylation is crucial for the inhibition of SN1-type alkylator MNNG-induced cytotoxicity, G2/M-phase arrest, apoptosis, and the MMR-dependent DNA damage response. Collectively, these results provide molecular explanations for the impact of YB-1 sumoylation on MMR deficiency and alkylator tolerance, which may provide insight for designing therapeutic strategies for malignancies and alkylator-resistant cancers associated with YB-1 overexpression.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

American journal of cancer research - 12(2022), 12 vom: 06., Seite 5462-5483

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mai, Ru-Tsun [VerfasserIn]
Chao, Chi-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Yao-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Kao, Yu-Ching [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Hsu, Hsiang-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Su, Yi-Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen-Yun [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Bo-Ying [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Alkylator tolerance
DNA damage response
DNA mismatch repair
Journal Article
SUMO-interacting motif
Sumoylation
YB-1

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Date Revised 12.01.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351392955