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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 105, Issue 6, Pages 1451-1460Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21965
Keywords
APOPTOSIS; METHYLENE BLUE; HELA CELL; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; MITOCHONDRIA PROTEOMICS
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- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-06-0445]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2006CB910103]
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Methylene blue (MB), a widely studied reagent, is investigated in this work for its usage in photodynamic therapy (PDT). PDT has been proved to be highly effective in the treatment of different types of cancers. Previous studies showed MB has both high affinity for mitochondria and high photodynamic efficiency. To elucidate the effects of MB in PDT, we analyzed PDT-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells by introducing different doses of MB into the culture media. Our data showed that MB-mediated PDT triggered intense apoptotic cell death through a series of steps, beginning with photochemical generation of reactive oxygen species. The release of cytochrome c and activation of caspase-3 indicated that MB-PDT-mediated apoptosis in HeLa cells was executed by the mitochondria-dependent apoptotic pathway. Importantly, proteomic studies confirmed that expression levels of several mitochondrial proteins were altered in MB-PDT-induced apoptosis, including TRAP1, mitochondrial elongation factor Tu and peroxiredoxin 3 isoform b. Western blot data showed that phosphorylation of ERK 1/2 and PKA were reduced in MB-PDT treated cells, indicating several signal molecules participating in this apoptotic cascade. Moreover, MB-PDT induced an increase in the strength of interaction between Bcl-xL and dephosphorylated Bad. This led to loss of the pro-survival function of Bcl-xL and resulted in mitochondria-mediated apoptosis. This study provides solid evidence of a strong induction by MB-PDT of a mitochondria-dependent apoptosis cascade in HeLa cells. J. Cell. Biochem. 105: 1451-1460, 2008. (C) 2008 Wilcy-Liss, Inc.
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