Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8384011 | FEBS Letters | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
In this study, we found that pectenotoxin-2 (PTX-2) decreased cell viability and inhibited telomerase activity with downregulation of hTERT expression in human leukemia cells. PTX-2 treatment also reduced c-Myc and Sp1 gene expression and DNA binding activity. Further chromatin immunoprecipitation assay demonstrated that PTX-2 attenuated the binding of c-Myc and Sp1 to the regulatory regions of hTERT. We also observed that PTX-2 treatment attenuated the phosphorylation of Akt, thereby reducing the phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of hTERT. We concluded that PTX-2 suppressed telomerase activity through the transcriptional and post-translational suppression of hTERT and this process precedes cellular differentiation of human leukemia cells.Structured summaryMINT-6742762:hTERT (uniprotkb:O14746) physically interacts (MI:0218) with AKT (uniprotkb:P31749) by anti bait coimmunoprecipitation (MI:0006)
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Authors
Mun-Ock Kim, Dong-Oh Moon, Sang-Hyuck Kang, Moon-Soo Heo, Yung Hyun Choi, Jee Hyung Jung, Jae-Dong Lee, Gi-Young Kim,