Functional inactivation of endogenous MDM2 and CHIP by HSP90 causes aberrant stabilization of mutant p53 in human cancer cells.
Functional inactivation of endogenous MDM2 and CHIP by HSP90 causes aberrant stabilization of mutant p53 in human cancer cells.
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10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-10-0534
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2011-05
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Moll UM
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Li D;Marchenko ND;Schulz R;Fischer V;Velasco-Hernandez T;Talos F;Moll UM
The tight control of wild-type (wt) p53 by mainly MDM2 in normal cells is permanently lost in tumors harboring mutant p53 (mutp53), which exhibit dramatic constitutive p53 hyperstabilization that far exceeds that of wtp53 tumors. Importantly, mutp53 hyperstabilization is critical for mutp53′s oncogenic gain-of function in vivo. Current insight into the mechanism of this dysregulation is fragmentary and largely derived from ectopically constructed cell systems. Importantly, mutp53 knockin mice established that normal mutp53 tissues have sufficient enzymatic reserves in MDM2 and other E3 ligases to maintain full control of mutp53. We find that in human cancer cells endogenous mutant p53, despite its ability to interact with MDM2, suffers from a profound lack of ubiquitination as the root of its degradation defect. In contrast to wtp53, the many mutp53 proteins which are conformationally aberrant are engaged in complexes with the HSP90 chaperone machinery to prevent its aggregation. In contrast to wtp53 cancer cells, we show that in mutp53 cancer cells this HSP90 interaction blocks the endogenous MDM2 and CHIP E3 ligase activity. Interference with HSP90 either by RNAi against HSF1, the transcriptional regulator of the HSP90 pathway, or by direct knockdown of Hsp90 protein or by pharmacological inhibition of Hsp90 activity with 17AAG destroys the complex, liberates mutp53 and reactivates endogenous MDM2 and CHIP to degrade mutp53. Of note, 17AAG induces a stronger viability loss in mutp53 than in wtp53 cancer cells. Our data supports the rationale that suppression of mutp53 levels in vivo in established cancers might achieve clinically significant effects.