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CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 662-675Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4401235
Keywords
protein kinase C; C1 domain; apoptosis; Golgi apparatus; neuroblastoma; Jurkat
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This study investigates apoptotic effects of protein kinase C (PKC) delta and theta in neuroblastoma cells. 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate induces apoptosis in SK-N-BE(2) neuroblastoma cells overexpressing PKCdelta or PKCtheta, but not PKCepsilon. The PKC inhibitor GF109203X does not suppress this apoptotic effect, suggesting that it is independent of the catalytic activity of PKC. The isolated catalytic domains of PKCdelta and PKCtheta or the regulatory domain (RD) of PKCtheta also induce apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells. The apoptotic responses are suppressed by caspase inhibition and by Bcl-2 overexpression. The PKCtheta RD induced apoptosis also in Jurkat cells. Colocalisation analysis revealed that the PKCtheta RD primarily localises to the Golgi complex. The C1b domain is required for this localisation and removal of the C1b domain results in a PKCtheta construct that does not induce apoptosis. This suggests that the PKCtheta RD has apoptotic activity and that Golgi localisation may be important for this effect.
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