RRC ID 86615
Author Göbl C, Morris VK, van Dam L, Visscher M, Polderman PE, Hartlmüller C, de Ruiter H, Hora M, Liesinger L, Birner-Gruenberger R, Vos HR, Reif B, Madl T, Dansen TB.
Title Cysteine oxidation triggers amyloid fibril formation of the tumor suppressor p16INK4A.
Journal Redox Biol
Abstract The tumor suppressor p16INK4A induces cell cycle arrest and senescence in response to oncogenic transformation and is therefore frequently lost in cancer. p16INK4A is also known to accumulate under conditions of oxidative stress. Thus, we hypothesized it could potentially be regulated by reversible oxidation of cysteines (redox signaling). Here we report that oxidation of the single cysteine in p16INK4A in human cells occurs under relatively mild oxidizing conditions and leads to disulfide-dependent dimerization. p16INK4A is an all α-helical protein, but we find that upon cysteine-dependent dimerization, p16INK4A undergoes a dramatic structural rearrangement and forms aggregates that have the typical features of amyloid fibrils, including binding of diagnostic dyes, presence of cross-β sheet structure, and typical dimensions found in electron microscopy. p16INK4A amyloid formation abolishes its function as a Cyclin Dependent Kinase 4/6 inhibitor. Collectively, these observations mechanistically link the cellular redox state to the inactivation of p16INK4A through the formation of amyloid fibrils.
Volume 28
Pages 101316
Published 2020-1-1
DOI 10.1016/j.redox.2019.101316
PII S2213-2317(19)30791-8
PMID 31539802
PMC PMC6812003
MeSH Amyloid / chemistry Cell Cycle Cellular Senescence Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16 / chemistry* Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16 / genetics Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16 / metabolism* Cysteine / chemistry* HEK293 Cells Humans Models, Molecular Oxidation-Reduction Protein Multimerization Protein Structure, Secondary
IF 9.986
Resource
DNA material mKO2-hCdt1(30/120) / pCSII-EF (RDB15267) mAG-hGeminin(1/110) / pCSII-EF (RDB15268)