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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 283, 期 8, 页码 4766-4777出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M706666200
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- NIA NIH HHS [R37 AG021904, T32AG023475, T32 AG023475, R01 AG021904-06, R01 AG021904, AG021904, R01 AG021904-07] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK044234, R01 DK044234-15, DK041918, P01 DK041918, P01 DK041918-17, P01 DK041918-16, R01 DK044234-16, DK044234] Funding Source: Medline
Macroautophagy has been implicated as a mechanism of cell death. However, the relationship between this degradative pathway and cell death is unclear as macroautophagy has been shown recently to protect against apoptosis. To better define the interplay between these two critical cellular processes, we determined whether inhibition of macroautophagy could have both pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic effects in the same cell. Embryonic fibroblasts from mice with a knock-out of the essential macroautophagy gene atg5 were treated with activators of the extrinsic and intrinsic death pathways. Loss of macroautophagy sensitized these cells to caspase-dependent apoptosis from the death receptor ligands Fas and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha). Atg5(-/-) mouse embryonic fibroblasts had increased activation of the mitochondrial death pathway in response to Fas/TNF-alpha in concert with decreased ATP levels. Fas/TNF-alpha treatment failed to up-regulate macroautophagy, and in fact, decreased activity at late time points. In contrast to their sensitization to Fas/TNF-alpha, Atg5(-/-) cells were resistant to death from menadione and UV light. In the absence of macroautophagy, an up-regulation of chaperone-mediated autophagy induced resistance to these stressors. These results demonstrate that inhibition of macroautophagy can promote or prevent apoptosis in the same cell and that the response is governed by the nature of the death stimulus and compensatory changes in other forms of autophagy. Experimental findings that an inhibition of macroautophagy blocks apoptosis do not prove that autophagy mediates cell death as this effect may result from the protective up-regulation of other autophagic pathways such as chaperone-mediated autophagy.
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