Akt phosphorylates the transcriptional repressor Bmi1 to block its effects on the tumor-suppressing Ink4a-Arf locus

  • Yan Liu
  • , Fan Liu
  • , Hao Yu
  • , Xinyang Zhao
  • , Goro Sashida
  • , Anthony Deblasio
  • , Michael Harr
  • , Qing Bai She
  • , Zhenbang Chen
  • , Hui Kuan Lin
  • , Silvana Di Giandomenico
  • , Shannon E. Elf
  • , Youyang Yang
  • , Yasuhiko Miyata
  • , Gang Huang
  • , Silvia Menendez
  • , Ingo K. Mellinghoff
  • , Neal Rosen
  • , Pier Paolo Pandolfi
  • , Cyrus V. Hedvat
  • Stephen D. Nimer

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Resumen

The Polycomb group protein Bmi1 is a transcriptional silencer of the Ink4a-Arf locus, which encodes the cell cycle regulator p16Ink4a and the tumor suppressor p19Arf. Bmi1 plays a key role in oncogenesis and stem cell self-renewal. We report that phosphorylation of human Bmi1 at Ser316 by Akt impaired its function by triggering its dissociation from the Ink4a-Arf locus, which resulted in decreased ubiquitylation of histone H2A and the inability ofBmi1 to promote cellular proliferation and tumor growth. Moreover, Akt-mediated phosphorylation of Bmi1 also inhibited its ability to promote self-renewal of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Our study provides a mechanismfor the increased abundance of p16Ink4a and p19Arfseen in cancer cells with an activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase to Akt signaling pathway and identifies crosstalk between phosphorylation events and chromatin structure.

Idioma originalEnglish (US)
Número de artículora77
PublicaciónScience signaling
Volumen5
N.º247
DOI
EstadoPublished - oct 23 2012
Publicado de forma externa

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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