Journal
APOPTOSIS
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages 1389-1405Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10495-007-0069-5
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caspase activation; mitochondrial dysfunction; reactive oxygen species; proteasome inhibition; neuronal cell death
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR03037] Funding Source: Medline
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While increasing evidence shows that proteasome inhibition triggers oxidative damage, mitochondrial dysfunction and death in neuronal cells, the regulatory relationship among these events is unclear. Using mouse neuronal cells we show that the cytotoxicity induced by mild (0.25 mu M) and potent (5.0 mu M) doses of the proteasome inhibitor, N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-Ile-Glu (O-t-butyl)Ala-leucinal, (PSI) involved a dose-dependent increase in caspase activation, overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a mitochondrial dysfunction manifested by the translocation of the proapoptotic protein, Bax, from the cytoplasm to the mitochondria, membrane depolarization and the release of cytochrome c and the apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) from mitochondria to the cytoplasm and nucleus, respectively. Whereas caspase or Bax inhibition failed to prevent mitochondrial membrane depolarization and neuronal cell death, pretreatments with the antioxidant N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) or overexpression of the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-xL abrogated these events in cells exposed to mild levels of PSI. These findings implicated ROS as a mediator of PSI-induced cytotoxicity. However, depletions in glutathione and Bcl-xL with potent proteasome inhibition exacerbated this response whereupon survival required the cooperative protection of NAC with Bcl-xL overexpression. Collectively, ROS induced by proteasome inhibition mediates a mitochondrial dysfunction in neuronal cells that culminates in death through caspase- and Bax-independent mechanisms.
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