Inhibition of Mdmx (Mdm4) in vivo induces anti-obesity effects

Oncotarget
Ning KonWei Gu

Abstract

Although cell-cycle arrest, senescence and apoptosis remain as major canonical activities of p53 in tumor suppression, the emerging role of p53 in metabolism has been a topic of great interest. Nevertheless, it is not completely understood how p53-mediated metabolic activities are regulated in vivo and whether this part of the activities has an independent role beyond tumor suppression. Mdmx (also called Mdm4), like Mdm2, acts as a major suppressor of p53 but the embryonic lethality of mdmx-null mice creates difficulties to evaluate its physiological significance in metabolism. Here, we report that the embryonic lethality caused by the deficiency of mdmx, in contrast to the case for mdm2, is fully rescued in the background of p53 3KR/3KR , an acetylation-defective mutant unable to induce cell-cycle arrest, senescence and apoptosis. p53 3KR/3KR /mdmx -/- mice are healthy but skinny without obvious developmental defects. p53 3KR/3KR /mdmx -/- mice are resistant to fat accumulation in adipose tissues upon high fat diet. Notably, the levels of p53 protein are only slightly increased and can be further induced upon DNA damage in p53 3KR/3KR /mdmx -/- mice, suggesting that Mdmx is only partially required for p53 degradation in vi...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
acetylation
dissection
transfection
PCR
immunoprecipitation
ChIP

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