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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 385, Issue -, Pages 11-20Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20041108
Keywords
apoptosis; inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP); melanoma inhibitor of apoptosis (ML-IAP); Smac/DIABLO (second mitochondrial activator of caspases/direct IAP binding protein with low pI); X-linked IAP (XIAP)
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR-01646, P41 RR001646] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [P41RR001646] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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ML-IAP (melanoma inhibitor of apoptosis) is a potent anti-apoptotic protein that is strongly up-regulated in melanoma and confers protection against a variety of pro-apoptotic stimuli. The mechanism by which ML-IAP regulates apoptosis is unclear, although weak inhibition of caspases 3 and 9 has been reported. Here, the binding to and inhibition of caspase 9 by the single BIR (baculovirus IAP repeat) domain of ML-IAP has been investigated and found to be significantly less potent than the ubiquitously expressed XIAP (X-linked IAP). Engineering of the ML-IAP-BIR domain, based on comparisons with the third BIR domain of XIAP, resulted in a chimeric BIR domain that binds to and inhibits caspase 9 significantly better than either ML-IAP-BIR or XIAP-BIR3. Mutational analysis of the ML-IAP-BIR domain demonstrated that similar enhancements in caspase 9 affinity can be achieved with only three amino acid substitutions. However, none of these modifications affected binding of the ML-IAP-BIR domain to the IAP antagonist Smac (second mitochondrial activator of caspases). ML-IAP-BIR was found to bind mature Smac with low nanomolar affinity, similar to that of XIAP-BIR2-BIR3. Correspondingly, increased expression of ML-IAP results in formation of a ML-IAP-Smac complex and disruption of the endogenous interaction between XIAP and mature Smac. These results suggest that ML-IAP might regulate apoptosis by sequestering Smac and preventing it from antagonizing XIAP-mediated inhibition of caspases, rather than by direct inhibition of caspases.
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