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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 313, Issue 16, Pages 3421-3431Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.05.030
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nitrosylation; apoptosis; receptor clustering; protein kinase C; trophoblast
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- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Apoptosis induced by the death-inducing ligand FasL (CD95L) is a major mechanism of cell death. Trophoblast cells express the Fas receptor yet survive in an environment that is rich in the ligand. We report that basal nitric oxide (NO) production is responsible for the resistance of trophoblasts to FasL-induced apoptosis. In this study we demonstrate that basal NO production resulted in the inhibition of receptor clustering following ligand binding. In addition NO also protected cells through the selective nitrosylation, and inhibition, of protein kinase Cc (PKC epsilon:) but not PKC alpha. In the absence of NO production PKC epsilon interacted with, and phosphorylated, the anti-apoptotic protein cFLIP. The interaction is predominantly with the short form of cFLIP and its phosphorylation reduces its recruitment to the death-inducing signaling complex (DISC) that is formed following binding of a death-inducing ligand to its receptor. Inhibition of cFLIP recruitment to the DISC leads to increased activation of caspase 8 and subsequently to apoptosis. Inhibition of PKC epsilon using siRNA significantly reversed the sensitivity to apoptosis induced by inhibition of NO synthesis suggesting that NO-mediated inhibition of PKC epsilon plays an important role in the regulation of Fas-induced apoptosis. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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