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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY
卷 213, 期 3, 页码 690-698出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21139
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Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) is produced as CUG-initiated, 22-34 kDa or AUG-initiated 18 kDa isoforms (hi- and lo-FGF-2, respectively), with potentially distinct functions. We report that expression of hi-FGF-2 in HEK293 cells elicited chromatin compaction preceding cell death with apoptotic features. Nuclear localization of the intact protein was required as expression of a non-nuclear hi-FGF-2 mutant failed to elicit chromatin compaction. Equally ineffective, despite nuclear localization, was the over-expression of the 18 kDa core sequence (lo-FGF-2). Chromatin compaction by hi-FGF-2 was accompanied by increased cytosolic cytochrome C, and was attenuated either by over-expression of Bcl-2 or by a peptide inhibitor of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax. In addition hi-FGF-2 elicited sustained activation of total and nuclear extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK 1/2) by an intracrine route, as it was not prevented by neutralizing anti-FGF-2 antibodies. Inhibition of the ERK 1/2 activating pathway by dominant negative upstream activating kinase, or by PD 98059, prevented chromatin compaction by hi-FGF-2. ERK 1/2 activation was not affected by the Bax-inhibiting peptide suggesting that it occurred upstream of mitochondrial involvement. We conclude that the hi-FGF-2-induced chromatin compaction and cell death requires its nuclear localization, intracrine ERK 1/2 activation and mitochondrial engagement.
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