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. 1998 May 15;17(10):2736–2747. doi: 10.1093/emboj/17.10.2736

p53-inducible human homologue of Drosophila seven in absentia (Siah) inhibits cell growth: suppression by BAG-1.

S Matsuzawa 1, S Takayama 1, B A Froesch 1, J M Zapata 1, J C Reed 1
PMCID: PMC1170614  PMID: 9582267

Abstract

The Drosophila seven in absentia (sina) gene is required for R7 photoreceptor cell formation during Drosophila eye development, where it functions within the Ras/Raf pathway and targets other proteins for degradation via associations with a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme. Recently, a mammalian sina homologue was reported to be a p53-inducible gene in a myeloid leukemia cell line. To explore the function of human SINA-homologous (Siah) proteins, expression plasmids encoding Siah-1A were transiently transfected into 293 epithelial cells and GM701 fibroblast cells, resulting in growth arrest without induction of apoptosis. We discovered that BAG-1, a ubiquitin-like Hsp70/Hsc70-regulating protein, is a negative regulator of Siah-1A. Siah-1A was identified as a BAG-1-binding protein via yeast two-hybrid methods. Specific interaction of BAG-1 with Siah-1A was also demonstrated by in vitro binding experiments using glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins and co-immunoprecipitation studies. Siah-1A-induced growth arrest in 293 and GM701 cells was abolished by co-transfection of wild-type BAG-1 with Siah-1A but not by a C-terminal deletion mutant of BAG-1 that fails to bind Siah-1A. Over-expression of BAG-1 significantly inhibited p53-induced growth arrest in 293 cells without preventing p53 transactivation of reporter gene plasmids. BAG-1 also prevented growth arrest following UV-irradiation-induced genotoxic injury without interfering with accumulation of p53 protein or p21(waf-1) expression. BAG-1 functions downstream of p53-induced gene expression to inhibit p53-mediated suppression of cell growth, presumably by suppressing the actions of Siah-1A. We suggest that Siah-1A may be an important mediator of p53-dependent cell-cycle arrest and demonstrate that Siah-1A is directly inhibited by BAG-1.

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