Aurora-A kinase interacting protein (AIP), a novel negative regulator of human Aurora-A kinase.

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العنوان: Aurora-A kinase interacting protein (AIP), a novel negative regulator of human Aurora-A kinase.
المؤلفون: Kiat, Lim Shen, Hui, Kam Man, Gopalan, Ganesan
المصدر: Journal of Biological Chemistry; November 2002, Vol. 277 Issue: 47 p45558-65, 8p
مستخلص: Aurora kinases have evolved as a new family of mitotic centrosome- and microtubule-associated kinases that regulate the structure and function of centrosomes and spindle. One of its members, Aurora-A, is a potential oncogene. Overexpression of Aurora-A is also implicated in defective centrosome duplication and segregation, leading to aneuploidy and tumorigenesis in various cancer cell types. However, the regulatory pathways for mammalian Aurora-A are not well understood. Exploiting the lethal phenotype associated with the overexpression of Aurora-A in yeast, we performed a dosage suppressor screen in yeast and report here the identification of a novel negative regulator of Aurora-A, named AIP (Aurora-A kinase Interacting Protein). AIP is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear protein that interacts specifically with human Aurora-A in vivo. Ectopic expression of AIP with Aurora-A in NIH 3T3 and COS cells results in the down-regulation of ectopically expressed Aurora-A protein levels, and this down-regulation is demonstrated to be the result of destabilization of Aurora-A through a proteasome-dependent protein degradation pathway. A noninteracting deletion mutant of AIP does not down-regulate Aurora-A protein, suggesting that the interaction is important for the protein degradation. AIP could therefore be a potential useful target gene for anti-tumor drugs.
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تدمد:00219258
1083351X
DOI:10.1074/jbc.M206820200