PMID- 10202145 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990601 LR - 20181113 IS - 0261-4189 (Print) IS - 0261-4189 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 7 DP - 1999 Apr 1 TI - DNA damage-inducible phosphorylation of p53 at N-terminal sites including a novel site, Ser20, requires tetramerization. PG - 1815-23 AB - Upon DNA damage, p53 has been shown to be modified at a number of N-terminal phosphorylation sites including Ser15 and -33. Here we show that phosphorylation is induced as well at a novel site, Ser20. Phosphorylation at Ser15, -20 and -33 can occur within minutes of DNA damage. Interestingly, while the DNA-binding activities of p53 appear to be dispensable, efficient phosphorylation at these three sites requires the tetramerization domain of p53. Substitution of an artificial tetramerization domain for this region also permits phosphorylation at the N-terminus, suggesting that oligomerization is important for DNA damage-induced signalling to p53. FAU - Shieh, S Y AU - Shieh SY AD - Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. FAU - Taya, Y AU - Taya Y FAU - Prives, C AU - Prives C LA - eng GR - CA58316/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - England TA - EMBO J JT - The EMBO journal JID - 8208664 RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) RN - 452VLY9402 (Serine) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Binding Sites MH - Cell Line MH - *DNA Damage MH - Humans MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein Conformation MH - Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism MH - Serine/chemistry/metabolism MH - Signal Transduction MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC1171267 EDAT- 1999/04/15 00:00 MHDA- 1999/04/15 00:01 CRDT- 1999/04/15 00:00 PHST- 1999/04/15 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/04/15 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/04/15 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1093/emboj/18.7.1815 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - EMBO J. 1999 Apr 1;18(7):1815-23. doi: 10.1093/emboj/18.7.1815.