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| Schematic structure of the CSN2 protein (modified according to Akiyama et al., 2003). The N-terminal region contains a region for interaction with DAX-1/NiF3l1 (aa 1-275). The central part of the protein includes the nuclear localization signal (NLS), a leucine zipper (LZ) domain and a corepressor region (CR) which contains an I/LXXI/VI motif. The C-terminal region contains a PCI domain, might be used for interaction between CSN subunits (reviewed in: Wei and Deng, 2003). The numbers represent the amino acids (aa). |
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Description | Three isoforms are known: CSN2 short/Alien a: 305 amino acids (aa); 36 kDa protein. CSN2 long 1/Alien b1: 443 aa; 51.6 kDa protein. CSN2 long 2/Alien b2: 450 aa; 52.4 kDa protein. CSN2 activity can be regulated through phosphorylation and dephosphorylation (Kapelari et al., 2000). |
Expression | Mouse Csn2 is widely expressed in embryonic, fetal and adult tissues (Schaefer et al., 1998). Several mRNA levels have been described in mice: 1,8 kb ; 2,2 kb ; 4 kb and 6 kb (Schaefer et al.,1998; Altincicek et al., 2000; Tenbaum et al., 2003). |
Localisation | CSN2 is localized in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus, predominantly being localized in the nucleus (Schaefer et al., 1998; Dressel et al., 1999; Tenbaum et al., 2003). |
Function | CSN2 short/Alien a acts as a corepressor for nuclear hormone receptors (NHR). Originally in mammalians, Alien was identified as an interacting protein of the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) in a ligand-sensitive manner (Lee et al., 1995). Moreover, Alien enhances TR-mediated gene silencing through its autonomous silencing function (Dressel et al., 1999). Additionally, the vitamin D receptor (VDR), the androgen receptor (AR) and the orphan receptor DAX-1 can also interact with Alien. Functionally Alien enhances gene silencing mediated by these nuclear receptors (Altincicek et al., 2000; Polly et al., 2000; Moehren et al., 2007). Notably, Alien seems to lack interaction with retinoid X receptor (RXR), retinoid acid receptor (RAR), estrogen receptor (ER), glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and germ cell nuclear factor (GCNF) (Dressel et al., 1999; Fuhrmann et al., 2000; reviewed in: Papaioannou et al., 2007). Also, corepression function was identified by CSN2 short/Alien a for transcription factors involved in cell cycle regulation and DNA repair such as several members of the E2F transcription factor family (Escher et al., 2007; reviewed in: Papaioannou et al., 2007). Alien is recruited to the E2F1 gene promoter repressing endogenous E2F1 gene expression in vivo. The data also suggest that Alien inhibits transactivation of E2F1, a positive regulator of cell cycle progression. In line with this, Alien represses cell cycle progression. Remarkably, the inhibition of E2F1-mediated transactivation is independent of retinoblastoma protein pRB (Tenbaum et al., 2007). pRB represses E2F1 transcriptional activation. It is not yet known whether Alien is able to substitute pRB function during cell cycle progression (Tenbaum et al., 2007). Furthermore, a direct interaction between Alien and pRB is detected. Interestingly, a pRB-mutant lacking silencing function also lacks interaction with CSN2 short/Alien (Escher et al., 2007). In addition, Alien interacts with the highly conserved chromatin associated tumor suppressor proteins Inhibitor of growth 1 (p33-ING1b) and 2 (p33-ING2) in vivo and both p33ING1b and p33ING2 are known to induce premature cellular senescence. It is shown that p33ING proteins enhance Alien-mediated gene silencing (Fegers et al., 2007). The recruitment of HDAC-activity is one mechanism by which Alien realizes its corepression functions (Dressel et al., 1999). However, it is suggested that Alien exhibits both HDAC-dependent and -independent options for gene repression (reviewed in: Papaioannou et al., 2007). Moreover, CSN2 short/Alien a interacts with nucleosome assembly protein 1 (NAP1) in vivo and in vitro regulating its activity through enhancing NAP1-mediated nucleosome assembly on DNA and thereby leading to gene repression (Eckey et al., 2007). The CSN2 long/Alien b isoform is an essential part of the COP9 signalosome (CSN) complex which is highly conserved in eukaryotes and consists of eight subunits (reviewed in: Wie et al., 2008). The CSN complex plays a central role in the regulation of degradation of multiple proteins through the ability to de-neddylate cullin, which enables the association of cullin with CAND1, a negative regulator of the cullin-based E3 ubiquitin ligases (reviewed in: von Arnim, 2003; reviewed in: Wolf et al., 2003; Chamovitz, 2009; Wu et al., 2009). A role for CSN2 long/Alien b is suggested by the interaction between CSN2 and subunits of the 26S proteasome was already shown (Huang et al., 2005). The promoter region of the Csn2 gene contains NF-kB binding sites like other CSN subunits. Accordingly, these members of the CSN complex are regulated by NF-kB. Snail, a transcription factor, which is a part of the TGF-b pathway and is involved in inflammatory-triggered migration, invasiveness and metastasis of tumor cells, is stabilized by the induction of the CSN complex via NF-kB (Wu et al., 2009). There are also COP9 subcomplexes with yet unknown functions (reviewed in: Wei et al, 2008). Interaction of COP9 via CSN2 with p53 in tumors can raise the stability of p53, the most important protein involving in a variety of essential tumor suppressive functions and induction of cellular senescence. But in contrast to Snail, the lower turnover does not lead to an increase in transcription activity and therefore neither to an increased p21 expression nor to cell cycle arrest (Leal et al., 2008). Moreover, CSN2 protein interacts physically with the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C), a major regulator of the cell cycle and affects specifically its stability (Kob et al., 2008). |
Homology | CSN2 is a highly conserved protein from humans to Drosophila (Dressel et al., 1999). CSN2 has homologies in any multicellular organism including plants. It is over 60% identical between animal and plant counterparts (Wei and Deng, 2003; Schwechheimer, 2004). Originally, the name Alien was given to a gene in the Drosophila genome with an unknown function (Goubeaud et al., 1996). It shares high homologies with Thyroid hormone receptor-interacting protein 15 (TRIP15), a mammalian protein (Lee et al.,1995; Dressel et al., 1999). |
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