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ARE RECENT DEFENCES OF THE BRAIN DEATH CONCEPT ADEQUATE?

Brain death is accepted in most countries as death. The rationales to explain why brain death is death are surprisingly problematic. The standard rationale that in brain death there has been loss of integrative unity of the organism has been shown to be false, and a better rationale has not been clearly articulated. Recent expert defences of the brain death concept are examined in this paper, and are suggested to be inadequate. I argue that, ironically, these defences demonstrate the lack of a defensible rationale for why brain death should be accepted as death itself. If brain death is death, a conceptual rationale for brain death being equivalent to death should be clarified, and this should be done urgently.     

Autophagy gene disruption reveals a non-vacuolar cell death pathway in Dictyostelium

Types of cell death include apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagic cell death. The latter can be defined as death of cells containing autophagosomes, autophagic bodies, and/or vacuoles. Are autophagy and vacuolization causes, consequences, or side effects in cell death with autophagy? Would control of autophagy suffice to control this type of cell death? We disrupted the atg1 autophagy gene in Dictyostelium discoideum, a genetically tractable model for developmental autophagic vacuolar cell death. The procedure that induced autophagy, vacuolization, and death in wild-type cells led in atg1 mutant cells to impaired autophagy and to no vacuolization, demonstrating that atg1 is required for vacuolization. Unexpectedly, however, cell death still took place, with a non-vacuolar and centrally condensed morphology. Thus, a cell death mechanism that does not require vacuolization can operate in this cell death model showing conspicuous vacuolization. The revelation of non-vacuolar cell death in this protist by autophagy gene disruption is reminiscent of caspase inhibition revealing necrotic cell death in animal cells. Thus, hidden alternative cell death pathways may be found across kingdoms and for diverse types of cell death.     

Autophagy functions in programmed cell death

Autophagic cell death is a prominent morphological form of cell death that occurs in diverse animals. Autophagosomes are abundant during autophagic cell death, yet the functional role of autophagy in cell death has been enigmatic. We find that autophagy and the Atg genes are required for autophagic cell death of Drosophila salivary glands. Although caspases are present in dying salivary glands, autophagy is required for complete cell degradation. Further, induction of high levels of autophagy results in caspase-independent autophagic cell death. Our results provide the first in vivo evidence that autophagy and the Atg genes are required for autophagic cell death and confirm that autophagic cell death is a physiological death program that occurs during development.     

Death of HT29 adenocarcinoma cells induced by TNF family receptor activation is caspase-independent and displays features of both apoptosis and necrosis

The HT29 adenocarcinoma is a common model of epithelial cell differentiation and colorectal cancer and its death is an oft-analyzed response to TNF family receptor signaling. The death event itself remains poorly characterized and here we have examined the involvement of caspases using pan-caspase inhibitors. zVAD-fmk did not block death of HT29 cells in response to activation of the Fas, TRAIL, TNF, TWEAK and LTbeta receptors. The secondary induction of TNF or the other known bona fide death inducing ligands did not account for death following LTbeta receptor activation indicating that TNF family receptors can trigger a caspase-independent death pathway regardless of the presence of canonical death domains in the receptor. To provide a frame of reference, the phenotype of HT29 death was compared to four other TNF family receptor triggered death events; Fas induced Jurkat cell apoptosis, TNF/zVAD induced L929 fibroblast necrosis, TNF induced death of WEHI 164 fibroblastoid cells and TNF/zVAD induced U937 death. The death of HT29 and U937 cells under these conditions is an intermediate form with both necrotic and apoptotic features. The efficient coupling of TNF receptors to a caspase-independent death event in an epithelial cell suggests an alternative approach to cancer therapy.     

Macromitophagy,neutral lipids synthesis,and peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation protect yeast from “liponecrosis”, a previously unknown form of programmed cell death

We identified a form of cell death called “liponecrosis.” It can be elicited by an exposure of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to exogenous palmitoleic acid (POA). Our data imply that liponecrosis is: (1) a programmed, regulated form of cell death rather than an accidental, unregulated cellular process and (2) an age-related form of cell death. Cells committed to liponecrotic death: (1) do not exhibit features characteristic of apoptotic cell death; (2) do not display plasma membrane rupture, a hallmark of programmed necrotic cell death; (3) akin to cells committed to necrotic cell death, exhibit an increased permeability of the plasma membrane for propidium iodide; (4) do not display excessive cytoplasmic vacuolization, a hallmark of autophagic cell death; (5) akin to cells committed to autophagic death, exhibit a non-selective en masse degradation of cellular organelles and require the cytosolic serine/threonine protein kinase Atg1p for executing the death program; and (6) display a hallmark feature that has not been reported for any of the currently known cell death modalities—namely, an excessive accumulation of lipid droplets where non-esterified fatty acids (including POA) are deposited in the form of neutral lipids. We therefore concluded that liponecrotic cell death subroutine differs from the currently known subroutines of programmed cell death. Our data suggest a hypothesis that liponecrosis is a cell death module dynamically integrated into a so-called programmed cell death network, which also includes the apoptotic, necrotic, and autophagic modules of programmed cell death. Based on our findings, we propose a mechanism underlying liponecrosis.     

Autophagic cell death: Loch Ness monster or endangered species?

The concept of autophagic cell death was first established based on observations of increased autophagic markers in dying cells. The major limitation of such a morphology-based definition of autophagic cell death is that it fails to establish the functional role of autophagy in the cell death process, and thus contributes to the confusion in the literature regarding the role of autophagy in cell death and cell survival. Here we propose to define autophagic cell death as a modality of non-apoptotic or necrotic programmed cell death in which autophagy serves as a cell death mechanism, upon meeting the following set of criteria: (i) cell death occurs without the involvement of apoptosis; (ii) there is an increase of autophagic flux, and not just an increase of the autophagic markers, in the dying cells; and (iii) suppression of autophagy via both pharmacological inhibitors and genetic approaches is able to rescue or prevent cell death. In light of this new definition, we will discuss some of the common problems and difficulties in the study of autophagic cell death and also revisit some well-reported cases of autophagic cell death, aiming to achieve a better understanding of whether autophagy is a real killer, an accomplice or just an innocent bystander in the course of cell death. At present, the physiological relevance of autophagic cell death is mainly observed in lower eukaryotes and invertebrates

such as Dictyostelium discoideum and Drosophila melanogaster. We believe that such a clear definition of autophagic cell death will help us study and understand the physiological or pathological relevance of autophagic cell death in mammals.     

Autophagic cell death: Loch Ness monster or endangered species?

The concept of autophagic cell death was first established based on observations of increased autophagic markers in dying cells. The major limitation of such a morphology-based definition of autophagic cell death is that it fails to establish the functional role of autophagy in the cell death process, and thus contributes to the confusion in the literature regarding the role of autophagy in cell death and cell survival. Here we propose to define autophagic cell death as a modality of non-apoptotic or necrotic programmed cell death in which autophagy serves as a cell death mechanism, upon meeting the following set of criteria: (i) cell death occurs without the involvement of apoptosis; (ii) there is an increase of autophagic flux, and not just an increase of the autophagic markers, in the dying cells; and (iii) suppression of autophagy via both pharmacological inhibitors and genetic approaches is able to rescue or prevent cell death. In light of this new definition, we will discuss some of the common problems and difficulties in the study of autophagic cell death and also revisit some well-reported cases of autophagic cell death, aiming to achieve a better understanding of whether autophagy is a real killer, an accomplice or just an innocent bystander in the course of cell death. At present, the physiological relevance of autophagic cell death is mainly observed in lower eukaryotes and invertebrates such as Dictyostelium discoideum and Drosophila melanogaster. We believe that such a clear definition of autophagic cell death will help us study and understand the physiological or pathological relevance of autophagic cell death in mammals.     

Essential roles of Atg5 and FADD in autophagic cell death: dissection of autophagic cell death into vacuole formation and cell death

Autophagic cell death is characterized by the accumulation of vacuoles in physiological and pathological conditions. However, its molecular event is unknown. Here, we show that Atg5, which is known to function in autophagy, contributes to autophagic cell death by interacting with Fas-associated protein with death domain (FADD). Down-regulation of Atg5 expression in HeLa cells suppresses cell death and vacuole formation induced by IFN-gamma. Inversely, ectopic expression of Atg5 using adenoviral delivery induces autophagic cell death. Deletion mapping analysis indicates that procell death activity resides in the middle and C-terminal region of Atg5. Cells harboring the accumulated vacuoles triggered by IFN-gamma or Atg5 expression become dead, and vacuole formation precedes cell death. 3-Methyladenine or expression of Atg5(K130R) mutant blocks both cell death and vacuole formation triggered by IFN-gamma, whereas benzyloxycarbonyl-VAD-fluoromethyl ketone (Z-VAD-fmk) inhibits only cell death but not vacuole formation. Atg5 interacts with FADD via death domain in vitro and in vivo, and the Atg5-mediated cell death, but not vacuole formation, is blocked in FADD-deficient cells. These results suggest that Atg5 plays a crucial role in IFN-gamma-induced autophagic cell death by interacting with FADD.     

Fatty acid amide hydrolase determines anandamide-induced cell death in the liver

The endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA) induces cell death in many cell types, but determinants of AEA-induced cell death remain unknown. In this study, we investigated the role of the AEA-degrading enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) in AEA-induced cell death in the liver. Primary hepatocytes expressed high levels of FAAH and were completely resistant to AEA-induced cell death, whereas primary hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) expressed low levels of FAAH and were highly sensitive to AEA-induced cell death. Hepatocytes that were pretreated or with the FAAH inhibitor URB597 isolated from FAAH(-/-) mice displayed increased AEA-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation and were susceptible to AEA-mediated death. Conversely, overexpression of FAAH in HSCs prevented AEA-induced death. Since FAAH inhibition conferred only partial AEA sensitivity in hepatocytes, we analyzed additional factors that might regulate AEA-induced death. Hepatocytes contained significantly higher levels of glutathione (GSH) than HSCs. Glutathione depletion by dl-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine rendered hepatocytes susceptible to AEA-mediated ROS production and cell death, whereas GSH ethyl ester prevented ROS production and cell death in HSCs. FAAH inhibition and GSH depletion had additive effects on AEA-mediated hepatocyte cell death resulting in almost 70% death after 24 h at 50 microm AEA and lowering the threshold for cell death to 500 nm. Following bile duct ligation, FAAH(-/-) mice displayed increased hepatocellular injury, suggesting that FAAH protects hepatocytes from AEA-induced cell death in vivo. In conclusion, FAAH and GSH are determinants of AEA-mediated cell death in the liver.     

Anti-IgM antibody-induced cell death in a human B lymphoma cell line, B104, represents a novel programmed cell death.

We investigated the mechanisms of anti-IgM antibody-induced cell death in a recently established human surface IgM+ IgD+ B lymphoma cell line, B104, the growth of which is irreversibly inhibited by anti-IgM antibody but not by anti-IgD antibody, and compared it with the cell death of T cells via TCR/CD3 complex and with the cell death of a murine anti-IgM antibody-sensitive B lymphoma cell line, WEHI-231. The rapid time course of B104 cell death and its requirements for de novo macromolecular synthesis and Ca2+ influx suggest that anti-IgM antibody-induced B104 cell death is an active Ca(2+)-dependent programmed cell death. Moreover, cyclosporin A rescued B104 cells from this lethal signal, via surface IgM, suggesting that the intracellular mechanisms involved are quite similar to those of T cell death. DNA fragmentation, which has been reported in TCR/CD3 complex-mediated T cell death, apoptosis, was not involved in the B104 cell death process, but the possible involvement of DNA single-strand breaks was suggested. Observations under light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy indicated that the morphologic features of dying B104 cells resembled necrosis rather than apoptosis. B104 cell death was shown to be quite distinct from that of WEHI-231 in cell death kinetics, the mode of cell death, and the response to cyclosporin A. These data collectively indicate that the death of B104 cells resulting from surface IgM cross-linking represents a hitherto undefined mode of programmed cell death.