PMID: 7541351May 15, 1995Paper

Regulation of the interferon-inducible protein kinase PKR and (2'-5')oligo(adenylate) synthetase by a catalytically inactive PKR mutant through competition for double-stranded RNA binding

European Journal of Biochemistry
T V SharpM J Clemens

Abstract

The interferon-inducible double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase PKR has been suggested to function as a tumour suppressor gene product. Catalytically inactive mutants of PKR give rise to a tumorigenic phenotype when overexpressed in NIH-3T3 fibroblasts and this has been attributed to a dominant negative effect on the activity of the wild-type enzyme. Here we show that the mutant with Lys296 replaced by Arg, [K296R]PKR, not only inhibits the protein kinase activity of wild-type PKR but is also inhibitory towards another double-stranded RNA-dependent enzyme, the 40-kDa form of (2'-5')oligo(adenylate) synthetase. Inhibition of both wild-type PKR and (2'-5')oligo(adenylate) synthetase is reversed by adding higher concentrations of double-stranded RNA. These results suggest competition between [K296R]PKR and wild-type PKR or (2'-5')oligo(adenylate) synthetase for limiting amounts of double-stranded RNA. Moreover, the data imply that the tumorigenic effect of this PKR mutant could be due to inhibition of additional pathways requiring low levels of double-stranded RNA for activation and cannot be unambiguously attributed to inhibition of endogenous PKR itself.

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Oct 23, 1997·Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research : the Official Journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research·M J Clemens, A Elia
Apr 28, 2000·European Journal of Biochemistry·J L Harcourt, M K Offermann
Jan 7, 2000·Experimental Cell Research·S SalzbergY Kronfeld-Kinar

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