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IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages 37-42Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2001.01277.x
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [1RO1GM56689] Funding Source: Medline
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The CD95 death receptor activates caspases that cleave a variety of intracellular substrates, including cell cycle control proteins. However, the significance of this cleavage for the induction of apoptosis is unclear. In this study, CD95-induced cleavage of the G1/S checkpoint regulator proteins, retinoblastoma protein (pRb) and murine-double-minute-2 (mdm-2), was associated with an increased protein concentration of a key transcription factor, E2F-1, which is regulated by both of them. Furthermore, DNA-binding activity to E2F sites is increased. In thymocytes, CD95-induced apoptosis was associated with increased E2F-1 DNA-binding activity, while thymocytes that lacked E2F-1 were less susceptible to CD95-induced apoptosis. We conclude that the G1/S checkpoint is an important target of CD95 signalling. CD95-activated caspases cleave regulator proteins to increase E2F-1 activity, and inappropriate activation of E2F-1 is part of the mechanism of CD95-induced apoptosis.
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