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CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 338-349Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2010.93
Keywords
apoptosis; mitochondria; respiratory chain; complex II; ROS
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- CRUK
- European commission (Hermione)
- Breast Cancer Campaign
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The formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the change of the intracellular pH (pH(i)) are common phenomena during apoptosis. How they are interconnected, however, is poorly understood. Here we show that numerous anticancer drugs and cytokines such as Fas ligand and tumour necrosis factor alpha provoke intracellular acidification and cause the formation of mitochondrial ROS. In parallel, we found that the succinate: ubiquinone oxidoreductase (SQR) activity of the mitochondrial respiratory complex II is specifically impaired without affecting the second enzymatic activity of this complex as a succinate dehydrogenase (SDH). Only in this configuration is complex II an apoptosis mediator and generates superoxides for cell death. This is achieved by the pH(i) decline that leads to the specific dissociation of the SDHA/SDHB subunits, which encompass the SDH activity, from the membrane-bound components of complex II that are required for the SQR activity. Cell Death and Differentiation (2011) 18, 338-349; doi: 10.1038/cdd.2010.93; published online 13 August 2010
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