TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamics of the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop in individual cells
AU - Lahav, Galit
AU - Rosenfeld, Nitzan
AU - Sigal, Alex
AU - Geva-Zatorsky, Naama
AU - Levine, Arnold J.
AU - Elowitz, Michael B.
AU - Alon, Uri
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - The tumor suppressor p53, one of the most intensely investigated proteins, is usually studied by experiments that are averaged over cell populations, potentially masking the dynamic behavior in individual cells. We present a system for following, in individual living cells, the dynamics of p53 and its negative regulator Mdm2 (refs. 1, 4-7): this system uses functional p53-CFP and Mdm2-YFP fusion proteins and time-lapse fluorescence microscopy. We found that p53 was expressed in a series of discrete pulses after DNA damage. Genetically identical cells had different numbers of pulses: zero, one, two or more. The mean height and duration of each pulse were fixed and did not depend on the amount of DNA damage. The mean number of pulses, however, increased with DNA damage. This approach can be used to study other signaling systems and suggests that the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop generates a 'digital' clock that releases well-timed quanta of p53 until damage is repaired or the cell dies.
AB - The tumor suppressor p53, one of the most intensely investigated proteins, is usually studied by experiments that are averaged over cell populations, potentially masking the dynamic behavior in individual cells. We present a system for following, in individual living cells, the dynamics of p53 and its negative regulator Mdm2 (refs. 1, 4-7): this system uses functional p53-CFP and Mdm2-YFP fusion proteins and time-lapse fluorescence microscopy. We found that p53 was expressed in a series of discrete pulses after DNA damage. Genetically identical cells had different numbers of pulses: zero, one, two or more. The mean height and duration of each pulse were fixed and did not depend on the amount of DNA damage. The mean number of pulses, however, increased with DNA damage. This approach can be used to study other signaling systems and suggests that the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop generates a 'digital' clock that releases well-timed quanta of p53 until damage is repaired or the cell dies.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0842332406
U2 - 10.1038/ng1293
DO - 10.1038/ng1293
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C2 - 14730303
AN - SCOPUS:0842332406
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 36
SP - 147
EP - 150
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 2
ER -
