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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 289, Issue 2, Pages 573-579Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.6025
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ultraviolet radiation; protein kinase C; tyrosine phosphorylation; H2O2; apoptosis; N-acetyl-L-cysteine; bisindolylmaleimide I; keratinocyte; HaCaT
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Protein kinase C delta (PKC delta) is activated through tyrosine phosphorylation and is involved in apoptosis induction in the H2O2-treated fibroblasts. In the hu man keratinocyte HaCaT cell line, ultraviolet radiation, which induces apoptosis, promoted tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of PKC delta, but neither enhanced threonine phosphorylation in the activation loop nor generated the catalytic fragment of the PKC isoform. Tyrosine phosphorylation of PKC delta was prevented by a radical scavenger, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, and by a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, genistein, in the ultraviolet-irradiated keratinocyte cell line. Ultraviolet radiation-induced apoptosis was attenuated by N-acetyl-L-cysteine and genistein as well as by a PKC inhibitor, bisindolylmaleimide I. These results indicate that reactive oxygen species generated by ultraviolet radiation enhance tyrosine phosphorylation of PKC delta, and the PKC isoform thus activated by the modification reaction contributes to induction of apoptotic cell death in keratinocytes. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science.
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