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Recognition of Local DNA Structures by p53 Protein
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Brázda V
; Coufal J
Int J Mol Sci
2017[Feb]; 18
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p53 plays critical roles in regulating cell cycle, apoptosis, senescence and
metabolism and is commonly mutated in human cancer. These roles are achieved by
interaction with other proteins, but particularly by interaction with DNA. As a
transcription factor, p53 is well known to bind consensus target sequences in
linear B-DNA. Recent findings indicate that p53 binds with higher affinity to
target sequences that form cruciform DNA structure. Moreover, p53 binds very
tightly to non-B DNA structures and local DNA structures are increasingly
recognized to influence the activity of wild-type and mutant p53. Apart from
cruciform structures, p53 binds to quadruplex DNA, triplex DNA, DNA loops, bulged
DNA and hemicatenane DNA. In this review, we describe local DNA structures and
summarize information about interactions of p53 with these structural DNA motifs.
These recent data provide important insights into the complexity of the p53
pathway and the functional consequences of wild-type and mutant p53 activation in
normal and tumor cells.