Abstract
APOBEC3B (A3B)-catalyzed DNA cytosine deamination contributes to the overall mutational landscape in breast cancer. Molecular mechanisms responsible for A3B upregulation in cancer are poorly understood. Here, we show that a single E2F cis-element mediates repression in normal cells and that expression is activated by its mutational disruption in a reporter construct or the endogenous A3B gene. The same E2F site is required for A3B induction by polyomavirus T antigen indicating a shared molecular mechanism. Proteomic and biochemical experiments demonstrate binding of wildtype but not mutant E2F promoters by repressive PRC1.6/E2F6 and DREAM/E2F4 complexes. Knockdown and overexpression studies confirm involvement of these repressive complexes in regulating A3B expression. Altogether, these studies demonstrate that A3B expression is suppressed in normal cells by repressive E2F complexes and that viral or mutational disruption of this regulatory network triggers overexpression in breast cancer and provides fuel for tumor evolution.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-64 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Journal | eLife |
| Volume | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:to derepress A3B and gain an evolutionary advantage. This possibility is also supported by
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These studies were supported in part by the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance (to RSH), P01-
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was supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore and the Singapore Ministry of
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in part by a Fellowship from the Susan G. Komen
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provided in part by a postgraduate fellowship awarded by the Cancer Science Institute (CSI) of
Keywords
- APOBEC3B
- Cancer mutagenesis
- Cell cycle regulation
- DREAM complex
- PRC1.6 complex
- Polyomavirus T antigen
- RB/E2F pathway
- Transcriptional regulation