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ONCOGENE
卷 19, 期 40, 页码 4563-4573出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203824
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anticancer drugs; apoptosis; caspase-8; caspase-9; CD95
Caspase-8 plays an essential role in apoptosis triggered by death receptors, Through the cleavage of Bid, a proapoptotic Bcl-2 member, it further activates the mitochondrial cytochrome c/Apaf-1 pathway. Because caspase-8 can be processed also by anticancer drugs independently of death receptors, we investigated its exact role and order in the caspase cascade. We show that in Jurkat cells either deficient for caspase-8 or overexpressing its inhibitor c-FLIP apoptosis mediated by CD95, but not by anticancer drugs was inhibited. In the absence of active caspase-8, anticancer drugs still induced the processing of caspase-9, -3 and Bid, indicating that Bid cleavage does not require caspase-8, Overexpression of Bcl-x(L) prevented the processing of caspase-8 as well as caspase-9, -6 and Bid in response to drugs, but was less effective in CD95-induced apoptosis, Similar responses were observed by overexpression of a dominant-negative caspase-9 mutant, To further determine the order of caspase-8 activation, we employed MCF7 cells lacking caspase-3, In contrast to caspase-9 that was cleaved in these cells, anticancer drugs induced caspase-8 activation only in caspase-3 transfected MCF7 cells. Thus, our data indicate that, unlike its proximal role in receptor signaling, in the mitochondrial pathway caspase-8 rather functions as an amplifying executioner caspase.
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