TY - JOUR
T1 - Role for O-glycosylation of RFP in the interaction with Enhancer of Polycomb
AU - Tezel, Gaye
AU - Shimono, Yohei
AU - Murakumo, Yoshiki
AU - Kawai, Kumi
AU - Fukuda, Toshifumi
AU - Iwahashi, Naoko
AU - Takahashi, Masahide
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to K. Imaizumi, M. Kozuka, and K. Uchiyama for their technical assistance. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for COE (Center of Excellence) Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - We recently demonstrated that RFP, which belongs to the large B-box RING finger protein family, interacts with Enhancer of Polycomb 1 (EPC1) and functions as a transcriptional repressor in human cultured cells. In this study, we examined the expression of RFP and EPC1 in mouse tissues by immunoblotting as well as their interaction by a pull-down assay. Both RFP and EPC1 proteins are expressed in several mouse tissues including testis, spleen, thymus, adrenal gland, cerebrum, and cerebellum. In addition, they were co-precipitated from the lysate of mouse testis. Pull-down assays using glutathione S-transferase (GST)-fused EPC1 proteins revealed that RFP is associated with the EPcA, EPcB, and carboxy-terminal (CT) regions of EPC1. Although RFP is highly expressed as 58- and 68-kDa proteins in mouse testis, the EPC1 CT region more strongly interacted with the 68-kDa form than the EPcA or EPcB region. Interaction of the 58-kDa form of RFP with each region was weak compared with that of the 68-kDa form with the EPC1 CT region. Because the 68-kDa form of RFP was almost completely digested with O-glycosidase but not with N-glycosidase, this suggested that O-glycosylation of RFP plays a role in its interaction with the EPC1 CT region that may be responsible for transcriptional repression. In addition, the luciferase reporter gene assay showed that expression of the EPcA region strongly impairs the transcriptional repressive activity of RFP.
AB - We recently demonstrated that RFP, which belongs to the large B-box RING finger protein family, interacts with Enhancer of Polycomb 1 (EPC1) and functions as a transcriptional repressor in human cultured cells. In this study, we examined the expression of RFP and EPC1 in mouse tissues by immunoblotting as well as their interaction by a pull-down assay. Both RFP and EPC1 proteins are expressed in several mouse tissues including testis, spleen, thymus, adrenal gland, cerebrum, and cerebellum. In addition, they were co-precipitated from the lysate of mouse testis. Pull-down assays using glutathione S-transferase (GST)-fused EPC1 proteins revealed that RFP is associated with the EPcA, EPcB, and carboxy-terminal (CT) regions of EPC1. Although RFP is highly expressed as 58- and 68-kDa proteins in mouse testis, the EPC1 CT region more strongly interacted with the 68-kDa form than the EPcA or EPcB region. Interaction of the 58-kDa form of RFP with each region was weak compared with that of the 68-kDa form with the EPC1 CT region. Because the 68-kDa form of RFP was almost completely digested with O-glycosidase but not with N-glycosidase, this suggested that O-glycosylation of RFP plays a role in its interaction with the EPC1 CT region that may be responsible for transcriptional repression. In addition, the luciferase reporter gene assay showed that expression of the EPcA region strongly impairs the transcriptional repressive activity of RFP.
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U2 - 10.1006/bbrc.2001.6161
DO - 10.1006/bbrc.2001.6161
M3 - Article
C2 - 11779184
AN - SCOPUS:0036295706
SN - 0006-291X
VL - 290
SP - 409
EP - 414
JO - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
JF - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
IS - 1
ER -