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Vol 50(2016) N 3 p. 438-441; DOI 10.1134/S002689331603002X A.D. Beniaminov1*, G.S. Krasnov1, A.A. Dmitriev1, G.A. Puzanov1, B.A. Snopok2, V.N. Senchenko1, V.I. Kashuba3 Interaction of two tumor suppressors: Phosphatase CTDSPL and Rb protein 1Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia2Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine 3Department of Molecular Oncogenetics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 03680, Ukraine *abeniaminov@mail.ru Received - 2015-11-19; Accepted - 2015-12-17 Earlier we established that CTDSPL gene encoding small carboxy-terminal domain serine phosphatase can be considered a classical tumor suppressor gene. Besides, transfection of tumor cell line MCF-7 with CTDSPL led to the content decrease of inactive phosphorylated form of another tumor suppressor, retinoblastoma protein (Rb), and subsequently to cell cycle arrest at the G1/S boundary. This result implied that small phosphatase CTDSPL is able to specifically dephosphorylate and activate Rb protein. In order to add some fuel to this hypothesis, in the present work we studied the interaction of two tumor suppressors CTDSPL and Rb in vitro. GST pool-down assay revealed that CTDSPL is able to precipitate Rb protein from MCF-7 cell extracts, while surface plasmon resonance technique showed that interaction of the two proteins is direct. Results of this study reassert that phosphatase CTDSPL and Rb could be involved in the common mechanism of cell cycle regulation. CTDSPL, Rb, tumor suppressor gene, protein interaction |