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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 166, Issue 3, Pages 311-316Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200405016
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FITC-VAD-FMK; apoptosis; CDC13; YCA 1; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM60433, R01 GM060443] Funding Source: Medline
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CDC13 encodes a telomere-binding protein that prevents degradation of telomeres. cdc 13-1 yeast grown at the nonpermissive temperature undergo G2/M arrest, progressive chromosome instability, and subsequent cell death. Recently, it has been suggested that cell death in the cdc13-1 mutant is an active process characterized by phenotypic hallmarks of apoptosis and caspase activation. In this work, we show that cell death triggered by cdc13-1 is independent of the yeast metacaspase Yca1p and reactive oxygen species but related to cell cycle arrest per se. Inactivating YCA1 or depleting reactive oxygen species does not increase viability of cdc13-1 cells. In turn, caspase activation does not precede cell death in the cdc13-1 mutant. Yca1p activity assayed by cell binding of mammalian caspase inhibitors is confounded by artifactual labeling of dead yeast cells, which nonspecifically bind fluorochromes. We speculate that during a prolonged cell cycle arrest, cdc13-1 cells reach a critical size and die by cell lysis.
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