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Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2005, p. 3506-3518, Vol. 25, No. 9
0270-7306/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.9.3506-3518.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

SUMO-1 Modification of PIASy, an E3 Ligase, Is Necessary for PIASy-Dependent Activation of Tcf-4

Motomasa Ihara, Hideki Yamamoto, and Akira Kikuchi*

Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan

Received 15 November 2004/ Returned for modification 25 December 2004/ Accepted 21 January 2005

We have previously shown that modification of Tcf-4, a transcription factor in the Wnt pathway, with SUMO by PIASy, a SUMO E3 ligase, enhances its transcriptional activity. Since PIASy itself was also modified with SUMO-1, we studied the role of sumoylation of PIASy in the regulation of Tcf-4. Lys35 was found to be a sumoylation site of PIASy. PIASyK35R, in which Lys35 was mutated to Arg, did not enhance sumoylation of Tcf-4, although this PIASy mutant did not lose the ligase activity of sumoylation for other proteins. Wild-type PIASy and PIASyK35R showed a distinct distribution in the nucleus, although both were colocalized with Tcf-4. Promyelocytic leukemia protein, which is involved in transcriptional regulation, was associated with PIASyK35R more frequently than wild-type PIASy in the nucleus. PIASyK35R could not stimulate the transcriptional activity of Tcf-4 under the conditions in which wild-type PIASy enhanced it. Conjugation of SUMO-1 to the amino terminus of PIASyK35R neither enhanced sumoylation of Tcf-4 nor stimulated the transcriptional activity of Tcf-4. These results suggest that sumoylation of Lys35 in PIASy determines the nuclear localization of PIASy and that it is necessary for PIASy-dependent sumoylation and transcriptional activation of Tcf-4.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan. Phone: 81-82-257-5130. Fax: 81-82-257-5134. E-mail: akikuchi{at}hiroshima-u.ac.jp.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 2005, p. 3506-3518, Vol. 25, No. 9
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.9.3506-3518.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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