SIRT1 regulates a variety of cellular functions, including cellular stress responses and energy metabolism. SIRT1 activity is negatively regulated by DBC1 (Deleted in Breast Cancer 1) through direct binding. However, how the DBC1-SIRT1 interaction is regulated remains unclear. We found that the DBC1-SIRT1 interaction increases following DNA damage and oxidative stress. The stress-induced DBC1-SIRT1 interaction requires the ATMdependent phosphorylation of DBC1 at Thr 454, which creates a second binding site for SIRT1. Finally, we showed that the stress-induced DBC1-SIRT1 interaction is important for cell fate determination following genotoxic stress. These results revealed a novel mechanism of SIRT1 regulation during genotoxic stress.Supplemental material is available for this article.Received January 28, 2012; revised version accepted March 8, 2012. SIRT1, a mammalian homolog for yeast silent information regulator 2 (SIR2), is a NAD + -dependent deacetylase that belongs to the class III histone deacetylases (Imai et al. 2000). SIRT1 and its orthologs were initially implicated in the regulation of life span in lower organisms, including yeast, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Drosophila melanogaster (Lin et al. 2000;Tissenbaum and Guarente 2001;Wood et al. 2004), although recent studies suggested that some of the reported effects may be due to confounding effects of genetic assays (Burnett et al. 2011). In mammals, SIRT1 participates in various cellular functions ranging from differentiation and development to metabolism and cell survival by deacetylating various proteins, including histones, transcription factors, and cell cycle and apoptosis regulatory proteins (Bordone and Guarente 2005;Schwer and Verdin 2008;Finkel et al. 2009;Haigis and Sinclair 2010;Yu and Auwerx 2010). Given its role in human health, SIRT1 activities in vivo are tightly regulated (Nemoto et al. 2004;Chen et al. 2005;Wang et al. 2006;Abdelmohsen et al. 2007;Kim et al. 2007;Yang et al. 2007;Sasaki et al. 2008). Recently, we and others have demonstrated that SIRT1's activity is modulated by protein-protein interaction through the DBC1 (Deleted in Breast Cancer 1) protein (Kim et al. 2008;Zhao et al. 2008;Kang et al. 2011). Using DBC1 knockout mice, we have also shown that DBC1 is a major regulator of SIRT1 in vivo (Escande et al. 2010). However, how the DBC1-SIRT1 interaction is regulated remains unclear. In this study, we found that, following DNA damage and oxidative stress, DBC1 binds more tightly to SIRT1. We further characterized the mechanism underlying this stress-induced DBC1-SIRT1 interaction and its functional significance.
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DBC1-SIRT1 interaction increased following cellular stressPrevious studies have shown that p53 acetylation, which is deacetylated by SIRT1, increases following DNA damage (Luo et al. 2001;Vaziri et al. 2001). In addition to p53 acetylation, the acetylation of other SIRT1 target proteins also increases, suggesting that SIRT1 activity is inhibited by DNA damage (Fig. 1A). When we examined the prot...