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p53 and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) are both DNA damage recognition proteins and can be functionally activated by DNA strand breaks. To understand the functional interaction between these two proteins, the effects of a PARP inhibitor, 3-aminobenzamide (3AB), on the p53 pathway were investigated in human glioblastoma cells with different p53 status. Consistent with previous studies, irradiation with γ-rays induced both p53 and WAF1 accumulation in A-172 cells (wtp53) but not in T98G cells (mp53). However, the presence of 3AB but not its analog suppressed radiation-induced accumulation of wtp53 and the expression of WAF1 and MDM2. Similar results were also obtained from U87MG, another human glioblastoma cell line with wtp53 status. Northern blotting analysis showed that 3AB inhibited the γ-ray-induced WAF1 gene expression. Moreover, 3AB but not its analog inhibited irradiation-induced activation of sequence-specific DNA binding of wtp53 as detected using 32P-labeled or biotin-labeled p53 consensus sequence (p53CON). However, immunoblotting with an anti-poly(ADP-ribose) antibody showed that p53 proteins of the p53CON-bound fraction did not contain poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR). These findings suggested that poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is required for rapid accumulation of p53, activation of p53 sequence-specific DNA binding and its transcriptional activity after DNA damage.
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Wang, X., Ohnishi, K., Takahashi, A. et al. Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is required for p53-dependent signal transduction induced by radiation. Oncogene 17, 2819–2825 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1202216
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