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¹ Medical Biotechnology Center, Institute for Medical Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
² Department of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany

Correspondence to Matthias Dobbelstein: mdobbel{at}uni-goettingen.de

The histone acetyltransferase Tip60 regulates the apoptotic response to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. A previously suggested mechanism for this regulation consists of the ability of Tip60 to coactivate transcription by the tumor suppressor p53. In this study, we show that Tip60 is required for the early DNA damage response (DDR) to UV, including the phosphorylation of histone 2AX, c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs), and ataxia telangiectasia–related substrates. In contrast, p53 was not required for UV-induced DDR. Rather, p53 accumulation by either knockdown of Mdm2 or addition of an Mdm2 inhibitor, Nutlin-3, before irradiation strongly attenuated the UV-induced DDR and increased cell survival. This protective effect of preaccumulated p53 was mediated, at least in part, by the increased expression of CDKN1A/p21, subsequent down-regulation of BRCA1, and impaired JNK activation accompanied by decreased association of replication protein A with chromatin. We conclude that Tip60 enables UV-induced DDR signaling even in the absence of p53, whereas preaccumulated p53 suppresses UV-induced DDR by reducing the levels of BRCA1.

Abbreviations used in this paper: ATM, ataxia telangiectasia mutated; ATR, ataxia telangiectasia related; CPD, cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer; DDR, DNA damage response; NHEK, normal human epidermal keratinocyte; PARP, poly-ADP ribose polymerase; RPA, replication protein A.

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