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The Journal of Biological Chremistry doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.432195
Characterization of Nuclear Localization Signal in the N Terminus of Integrin-linked Kinase-associated Phosphatase (ILKAP) and Its Essential Role in the Down-regulation of RSK2 Protein Signaling
Wang Zhou, Hao Cao§, Xinghai Yang, Kan Cong, Wei Wang, Tianrui Chen, Huabin Yin, Zhipeng Wu, Xiaopan Cai, Tielong Liu, and Jianru Xiao
Integrin-linked kinase-associated phosphatase (ILKAP) is a serine/threonine (S/T) phosphatase that belongs to the protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) family. Many previous studies have demonstrated that ILKAP plays key roles in the regulation of cell survival and apoptosis. Researchers have thus far considered ILKAP a cytoplasmic protein that negatively regulates integrin signaling by interacting with and phosphorylating integrin-linked kinase 1 (ILK1). In this study, we found that both endogenous and tagged ILKAP mainly localize to the nucleus and that the nuclear transport of ILKAP is nuclear localization signal (NLS) importin-mediated. The ILKAP protein interacts directly with importin α1, α3, and α5. The NLS in ILKAP is located in the N-terminal region between amino acids 71 and 86, and the NLS-deleted ILKAP protein was distributed in the cytoplasm. In addition, we show that Lys-78 and Arg-79 are critical for the binding of ILKAP to importin α. We also found that nuclear ILKAP interacts with ribosomal protein S6 kinase-2 (RSK2) and induces apoptosis by inhibiting RSK2 activity and down-regulating the expression level of the RSK2 downstream substrate cyclin D1. These results indicate that ILKAP is a nuclear protein that regulates cell survival and apoptosis through the regulation of RSK2 signaling.
