bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/194704; this version posted May 4, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The Wild-type and Gain-of-function Mutant p53 Enhance p300 Autoacetylation through Conformational Switching Stephanie Kaypee1,4, Raka Ghosh2,4, Smitha Asoka Sahadevan1, Shilpa Patil1,5, Manidip Shasmal2,6, Piya Ghosh2, Neeladri Roy2,7, Jayati Sengupta3,*, Siddhartha Roy2,*, and Tapas K. Kundu1,* 1Transcription and Disease Laboratory, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; 2Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India; 3Division of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India. * To whom correspondence should be addressed:
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[email protected] 4 These authors contributed equally to the paper as first authors. 5 Current Address: Department of Gastroenterology and GI oncology, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany 6 Current Address: Government General Degree College, Keshiary West Bengal Education Service, West Bengal, India 7 Current Address: Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, MD, USA 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/194704; this version posted May 4, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. ABSTRACT The transcriptional coactivator p300 is essential for p53 transactivation, although its precise mechanism remains unclear. We report that, p53 allosterically activates the acetyltransferase activity of p300 through the enhancement of p300 autoacetylation.