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胆固醇普遍存在于细胞膜中,其含量在细胞增殖、生长及各种疾病条件下会发生改变,这暗示胆固醇对细胞功能的调节起着重要的作用。运用全细胞膜片钳技术研究了胆固醇含量变化对海马神经细胞电压依赖钾电流的影响。实验观察到神经细胞经胆固醇去除剂β-甲基环化糊精(MβCD)处理后,胆固醇含量的减少促进了延迟整流钾电流IK的增加,且延缓了瞬间失活钾电流IA的失活。更进一步,延迟整流钾电流IK和瞬间失活钾电流IA分别经TEA和4-AP阻断后,MβCD对两种电流成分的影响显著降低。这一结果进一步表明胆固醇去除剂对电压依赖钾电流的上调是通过作用于IK和IA电流而共同实现的。基于电压依赖钾通道在神经细胞功能中的重要作用,实验结果暗示神经细胞胆固醇含量变化可对神经细胞的兴奋性起调节作用。 相似文献
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Depressed energy metabolism and oxidative stress are common features in many pathological situations in the brain, including stroke. In order to investigate astrocytic responses to such stress, we induced metabolic depression in cultured rat astrocytes. Iodoacetate (IA), an inhibitor of the glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was used and resulted in a rapid inhibition of GAPDH activity. After 1h of GAPDH inhibition the ATP levels started to decrease and were completely abolished at 4h. In parallel, the activity of reactive oxygen species (ROS) was significantly increased, followed by extensive cell death involving flipping of phosphatidylserine and translocation of apoptosis-inducing factor, but not caspase-3 activation. When IA was combined with azide, a respiratory chain complex IV inhibitor, the ATP levels decreased immediately. Interestingly, with azide present, the ROS activity remained low and the astrocytes remained viable even at very low ATP levels. Addition of exogenous ROS-scavengers prevented the IA-induced ROS activity, the ATP levels were maintained and cell death was prevented. Similar protection could be obtained when astrocytes, prior to addition of IA, were incubated with substances known to activate the nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)-regulated endogenous antioxidant system. When IA was washed out, after a relatively moderate ATP depression, massive cell death occurred. This was efficiently prevented by addition of azide or ROS scavengers during the IA treatment or by pre-activation of the Nrf2 system. Our results demonstrate that astrocytes in culture can endure and recover from glycolytic inhibition if the ROS activity remained at a low level and suggest that oxidative stress can be an important component for astrocytic cell death following metabolic stress. 相似文献
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潘运迎邓征浩周建华 《现代生物医学进展》2012,12(17):3394-3397
成纤维细胞生长因子2(fibroblast growth factor 2,FGF-2)具有多种细胞生物学功能。FGF-2在肿瘤组织中呈高水平表达状态,且可抑制多种化疗药物的促凋亡作用,从而曾为肿瘤细胞存活的重要刺激因素。但也有研究表明FGF-2可诱导部分细胞的分化和凋亡。鉴于FGF-2在肿瘤的发生发展中发挥的重要作用,FGF-2与细胞凋亡的关系及其相应的调节机制成为有待于深入研究和迫切需要解决的问题。本文主要阐述在细胞凋亡通路中,FGF-2关键分子的作用机制及其最新研究进展。 相似文献
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Alessenko AV 《Membrane & cell biology》2000,13(2):303-320
Sphingomyelin cycle metabolites ceramide, sphingosine and sphingosine 1-phosphate play an important role in cell proliferation, differentiation, reception, oncogenesis and apoptosis. Ceramide is an intracellular second messenger for apoptosis activating proteases and specific phosphatases. Sphingosine is an endogenous inhibitor of protein kinase C and has an inhibitory effect on many cell functions depending on the activity of this enzyme. On the other hand, sphingosine can activate other kinases depending on the concentration, cell type and nature of a stimulus and release Ca2+ from intracellular stores thereby regulating cell proliferation. Sphingosine induces apoptosis and its level is increased in cells as a result of action of apoptotic inducers. A phosphorylated product of sphingosine, sphingosine 1-phosphate, mediates the mitogenic signal, induces Ca2+ mobilization and protects cells from apoptosis resulting from elevation of ceramide. The quantitative levels of sphingomyelin metabolites in the cell determine the dynamic balance between the apoptotic and mitogenic signals. 相似文献
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Gerard I Evan Lamorna Brown Moira Whyte Elizabeth Harrington 《Current opinion in cell biology》1995,7(6)
Apoptosis is an evolutionarily conserved ‘suicide’ programme present in all metazoan cells. Despite its highly conserved nature, it is only recently that any of the molecular mechanisms underlying apoptosis have been identified. Several lines of reasoning indicate that apoptosis and cell proliferation coincide to some degree: many oncogenes that promote cell cycle progression also induce apoptosis; damage to the cell cycle or to DNA integrity is a potent trigger of apoptosis; and the key tumour suppressor proteins, p105rb and p53, exert direct effects both on cell viability and on cell cycle progression. There is less evidence, however, to indicate that apoptosis and the cell cycle share common molecular mechanisms. Moreover, the interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE) family of cysteine proteases is now known to play a key role in apoptosis but has no discernible role in the cell cycle, arguing that the two processes are discrete. 相似文献
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Protein cleavage is a central event in many regulated biological processes. We describe a system for detecting intracellular proteolysis based on non-conventional secretion of Gaussia luciferase (GLUC). GLUC exits the cell without benefit of a secretory leader peptide, but can be anchored in the cell by fusion to β-actin. By including protease cleavage sites between GLUC and β-actin, proteolytic cleavage can be detected. Using this assay, we have identified regulators of autophagy, apoptosis and β-actin cleavage. 相似文献
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Extremely rapid and intense induction of apoptosis in human eosinophils by anti-CD30 antibody treatment in vitro 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Matsumoto K Terakawa M Miura K Fukuda S Nakajima T Saito H 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2004,172(4):2186-2193
Apoptosis is an important cellular mechanism for controlling cell viability and proliferation. With respect to eosinophils, cytokines prolong their survival, whereas corticosteroids reduce their survival in vitro. CD30, a member of the TNFR family, is expressed on the surface of many cell types, including Hodgkin's lymphoma cells. CD30 is capable of inducing apoptosis after Ab treatment in some cell lines. To determine whether this surface structure is involved in apoptosis of human eosinophils, we examined its expression and the effect of anti-CD30 Ab treatment on the viability of eosinophils. Purified human eosinophils expressed low, but consistently detectable, levels of CD30. Immobilized, but not soluble, forms of anti-CD30 Abs (HRS-4 and Ber-H8) or recombinant mouse CD30 ligand exhibited an extremely rapid and intense survival-reducing effect on the eosinophils in the presence of exogenous IL-5; this effect was both concentration and time dependent. Furthermore, high concentrations of IL-5 could not reverse the reduced survival rates. After treatment with anti-CD30 Ab, gel electrophoresis of DNA extracted from the eosinophils demonstrated changes consistent with apoptosis. The immobilized F(ab')(2) of the anti-CD30 Ab failed to induce eosinophil apoptosis. The addition of anti-CD18 Ab also completely abrogated the induction of eosinophil apoptosis. Further examination using specific signal transduction inhibitors suggested the involvement of p38, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1/2, and specific tyrosine kinase, but not NF-kappaB, in the induction of CD30-mediated eosinophil apoptosis. These data demonstrate that CD30 can modify eosinophil survival by causing an extremely rapid and intense induction of apoptosis through a tightly regulated intracellular signaling pathway. 相似文献
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Immunoaffinity chromatography is employed in many research areas. We have developed an assay system that overcomes some of the tediousness and uncertainty in dealing with immunoadsorbents (IA). The preparation of IA and the effect of various procedures on the dissociation of antigen-antibody complex and the regeneration of IA are rapidly screened by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. Non-covalently bound proteins are dissociated and separated during the electrophoresis from IA beads. A wide variety of associative and dissociative conditions can be tested on small amounts of IA. Information about biospecifially and non-biospecifically adsorbed proteins can also be obtained. By using relatively small volumes of media containing either an antigen or another biospecific molecule, the optimal parameters for affinity chromatography (specificity, binding capacity, efficiency of solvents in dissociation of the complex and their effect on the adsorbent), or even for ion-exchange chromatography, can be determined without first performing several time- and material-consuming chromatographic experiments. 相似文献
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Binding specificity and regulation of the serine protease and PDZ domains of HtrA2/Omi 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Martins LM Turk BE Cowling V Borg A Jarrell ET Cantley LC Downward J 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2003,278(49):49417-49427
Inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) prevent apoptosis through direct inhibition of caspases. The serine protease HtrA2/Omi has an amino-terminal IAP interaction motif like that found in Reaper, which displaces IAPs from caspases, leading to enhanced caspase activity. The cell death-promoting properties of HtrA2/Omi are not only exerted through its capacity to oppose IAP inhibition of caspases but also through its integral serine protease activity. We have used peptide libraries to determine the optimal substrate sequence for cleavage by HtrA2 and also the preferred binding sequence for its PDZ domain. Using these peptides, we show that the PDZ domain of HtrA2/Omi suppresses the proteolytic activity unless it is engaged by a binding partner. Subjecting HtrA2/Omi to heat shock treatment also increases its protease activity. Unexpectedly, binding of X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) to the Reaper motif of HtrA2/Omi results in a marked increase in proteolytic activity, suggesting a new role for IAPs. When HtrA2/Omi is released from mitochondria following an apoptotic stimulus, binding to IAPs may switch their function from caspase inhibition to serine protease activation. Thus although IAP overexpression can suppress caspase activation, it could have the opposite effect on HtrA2/Omi-dependent cell death. This, together with the ability of HtrA2/Omi to degrade IAPs, may limit the overall cellular protection that can be provided by these proteins. 相似文献
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Gokhalé P Patel T Morrison MJ Vissers MC 《Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death》2006,11(10):1737-1746
Chemotherapy agents initiate tumour cell apoptosis and this is thought to involve oxidative stress. In this study we have
investigated the effect of the important antioxidant Vitamin C (ascorbate) on the response of HL60 and Jurkat cells to three
chemotherapy drugs, namely etoposide, melphalan and arsenic trioxide (As2O3). Cells grown in routine culture media are deficient in ascorbate and to determine its effect on chemotherapy drug-induced
apoptosis we supplemented the cells prior to drug exposure. We found that ascorbate had a varied effect on apoptosis and cell
cycle progression. Etoposide-induced apoptosis in HL60 cells was significantly increased in ascorbate-loaded cells as measured
by caspase-3 activation and DNA degradation, and this appeared to reflect a decrease in the number of necrotic cells rather
than increased cytotoxicity. In contrast, ascorbate had no effect on etoposide-induced apoptosis in Jurkat cells. In both
cell types melphalan-induced apoptosis was unaffected by intracellular ascorbate, whereas both apoptosis and growth arrest
with low concentrations of As2O3 were diminished. These results indicate that intracellular ascorbate can affect cell responses to chemotherapy drugs in a
complex and somewhat unpredictable manner and that it may play an important role in the responsiveness of tumour cells to
chemotherapy regimes.
This study was supported by the Health Research Council of New Zealand. 相似文献
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Glutamate, one of the major neurotransmitters in the central nervous system, is released into the synaptic spaces and bound
to the glutamate receptors which facilitate normal synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, and brain development. Past
studies have shown that glutamate with high concentration is a potent neurotoxin capable of destroying neurons through many
signal pathways. In this research, our main purpose was to determine whether the specific soluble guanylyl cyclase activator
YC-1 (3-(5′-hydroxymethyl-2′-furyl)-1-benzyl indazole) had effect on glutamate-induced apoptosis in cultured PC12 cells. The
differentiated PC12 cells impaired by glutamate were used as the cell model of excitability, and were exposed to YC-1 or/and
ODQ (1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-a]quinoxalin-1-one) with gradient concentrations for 24 h. MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl)
assay was used to detect the cellular viability. Radioimmunoassay (RIA) was used to detect the cGMP (cyclic guanosine monophosphate)
concentrations in PC12 cells. Hoechst 33258 staining and flow cytometric analysis were used to detect the cell apoptosis.
The cellular viability was decreased and the apoptotic rate was increased when PC12 cells were treated with glutamate. Cells
treated with YC-1 or/and ODQ showed no significant differences in the cell viability and intracellular cGMP levels compared
with those of control group. The specific soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) inhibitor ODQ showed an inhibitory effect on cGMP
level and aggravated the apoptosis of PC12 cells induced by glutamate. YC-1 elevated cGMP level thus decreased PC12 cell apoptosis
induced by glutamate, but this effect could be reversed by ODQ. These results revealed that YC-1 might attenuate glutamate-induced
PC12 cell apoptosis via a sGC–cGMP involved pathway. 相似文献
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Chun-Juan Chen Wei Yu Yu-Cai Fu Ji-Lin Li 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2009,378(3):389-533
Loss of cardiomyocytes through apoptosis has been proposed as a cause of ventricular remodeling and heart failure. Ischemia- and hypoxia-induced apoptosis of cardiomyocytes reportedly plays an important role in many cardiac pathologies. We investigated whether resveratrol (Res) has direct cytoprotective effects against ischemia/hypoxia for cardiomyocytes. Exposure of H9c2 embryonic rat heart-derived cells to hypoxia for 24 h caused a significant increase in apoptosis, as evaluated by TUNEL and flow cytometry, while treatment with 20 μM Res greatly decreased hypoxia-induced apoptosis in these cells. Exposure of the cells to Res (20 μM) caused rapid activation of SIRT1, which had a dual effect on FoxO1 function: SIRT1 increased FoxO1’s ability to induce cell cycle arrest, but inhibited FoxO1’s ability to induce cell death. This effect could be reversed by SIRT1 inhibition. Results of our study indicate that Res inhibits hypoxia-induced apoptosis via the SIRT1-FoxO1 pathway in H9c2 cells. This polyphenol may have potential in preventing cardiovascular disease, especially in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. 相似文献
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Apoptosis in neuronal tissue is an efficient mechanism which contributes to both normal cell development and pathological cell death. The present study explores the effects of extracellular ADP on low [K+]-induced apoptosis in rat cerebellar granule cells. ADP, released into the extracellular space in brain by multiple mechanisms, can interact with its receptor or be converted, through the actions of ectoenzymes, to adenosine. The findings reported in this paper demonstrate that ADP inhibits the proapoptotic stimulus supposedly via: i) inhibition of ROS production during early stages of apoptosis, an effect mediated by its interaction with cell receptor/s. This conclusion is validated by the increase in SOD and catalase activities as well as by the GSSG/GSH ratio value decrease, in conjunction with the drop of ROS level and the prevention of the ADP protective effect by pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl-2′,4′-disulfonic acid (PPADS), a novel functionally selective antagonist of purine receptor; ii) safeguard of the functionality of the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide-1 translocator (ANT-1), which is early impaired during apoptosis. This effect is mediated by its plausible internalization into cell occurring as such or after its hydrolysis, by means of plasma membrane nucleotide metabolizing enzymes, and resynthesis into the cell. Moreover, the findings that ADP also protects ANT-1 from the toxic action of the two Alzheimer's disease peptides, i.e. Aβ1–42 and NH2htau, which are known to be produced in apoptotic cerebellar neurons, further corroborate the molecular mechanism of neuroprotection by ADP, herein proposed. 相似文献
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Lin KR Lee SF Hung CM Li CL Yang-Yen HF Yen JJ 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2007,282(30):21962-21972
Tribbles, an atypical protein kinase superfamily member, coordinates cell proliferation, migration, and morphogenesis during the development of Drosophila and Xenopus embryos. Although Tribbles are highly conserved throughout evolution, the physiological functions of mammalian Tribbles family remain largely unclear. Here we report that human TRB2 is a pro-apoptotic molecule that induces apoptosis of cells mainly of the hematopoietic origin. TRB2 mRNA is selectively induced by removal of granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) or interleukin-2 from human erythroleukemia-derived TF-1 cell line or activated primary CD4(+) T cells, respectively. It is, however, not induced by many other treatments that trigger apoptosis of these two cell types. Overexpression of TRB2 activates many apoptotic events observed in GM-CSF-deprived TF-1 cells, including loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, Mcl-1 cleavage/degradation, and activation of Bax and a number of caspases. Specific knockdown of TRB2 significantly suppresses GM-CSF deprivation-induced apoptosis and all apoptotic events mentioned above. Finally, we demonstrate that TRB2-induced cleavage and degradation of Mcl-1 are mediated via a caspase-dependent but proteasome-independent mechanism, and overexpression of Mcl-1 or its upstream activator Akt can markedly overcome the apoptogenic effect of TRB2. Altogether, these results suggest that the TRB2-Mcl-1 axis plays an important role in survival factor withdrawal-induced apoptosis of TF-1 cells. 相似文献
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为研究二氧化硫(SO2)衍生物——NaHSO3和Na2SO3(二者分子比为1:3)对大鼠海马CA3区神经元瞬间外向钾电流(IA)的影响,利用全细胞膜片钳技术,根据动力学和药理学特性分离鉴定大鼠海马CA3区神经元IA,观察SO2衍生物对IA的效应。发现SO2代谢衍生物可浓度依赖性地增大IA,使IA增大50%的剂量为25μmol/L。此外还与电压呈依赖关系,但不具有频率依赖性。10μmol/L的SO2代谢衍生物不影响IA电流的激活过程,但升高了A-通道稳态失活电压,延长了A-电流失活时间。说明SO2代谢衍生物可增大大鼠海马CA3区神经元IA电流,延长A-电流的失活时间,从而影响海马神经元的膜生理感应,这可能是SO2影响神经细胞功能的机理之一。 相似文献
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McCarthy BA Boyle E Wang XP Guzowski D Paul S Catera R Trott J Yan XJ Croce CM Damle R Yancopoulos S Messmer BT Lesser M Allen SL Rai KR Chiorazzi N 《Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)》2008,14(9-10):618-627
Since its discovery in follicular lymphoma cells at the breakpoint t(14;18), Bcl-2 has been studied extensively in many basic and clinical science settings. Bcl-2 can locate as an integral mitochondrial membrane component, where its primary role is to block apoptosis by maintaining membrane integrity. Here we show that Bcl-2 also can position on the outer cell surface membrane of B cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) and certain other leukemias that do not classically possess the chromosomal breakpoint t(14;18). Although low levels of Bcl-2 can be detected on the surface membrane of apparently healthy leukemic and normal B cells, expression of Bcl-2 correlates best with spontaneous or induced apoptosis. Notably, upon induction of apoptosis, B-CLL cells were much more efficient in upregulating surface Bcl-2 than normal B cells. It is not clear if this surface membrane expression is a passive consequence of the apoptotic process or an active attempt by the B cell to abort cell death by stabilizing the plasma membrane. 相似文献
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Control of mitochondrial integrity by Bcl-2 family members and caspase-independent cell death 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
Programmed cell death (PCD) is essential for normal development and maintenance of tissue homeostasis in multicellular organisms. While it is now evident that PCD can take many different forms, apoptosis is probably the most well-defined cell death programme. The characteristic morphological and biochemical features associated with this highly regulated form of cell death have until recently been exclusively attributed to the caspase family of cysteine proteases. As a result, many investigators affiliate apoptosis with its pivotal execution system, i.e. caspase activation. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that PCD or apoptosis can also proceed in a caspase-independent manner and maintain key characteristics of apoptosis. Mitochondrial integrity is central to both caspase-dependent and-independent cell death. The release of pro-apoptotic factors from the mitochondrial intermembrane space is a key event in a cell's commitment to die and is under the tight regulation of the Bcl-2 family. However, the underlying mechanisms governing the efflux of these pro-death molecules are largely unknown. This review will focus on the regulation of mitochondrial integrity by Bcl-2 family members with particular attention to the controlled release of factors involved in caspase-independent cell death. 相似文献
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During development, Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) can induce apoptosis, cell growth or differentiation. These different
effects are mediated by dimers of two types of BMP–receptors (BMPRs). To identify the responding cells during tooth development
and search for possible tissue–or stage–specificities in the receptors involved, the distribution patterns of BMPR–IA, –IB
and –II were investigated in the mouse molar, from bud to bell stage. At the bud stage, BMP–2 was suggested to be involved
in the formation of an epithelial signaling center, the primary enamel knot (PEK), while BMP–4 would mediate the condensation
of the mesenchyme. Immunostaining showed the presence of BMPR–IA and –II in the epithelium instead of BMPR–IB and –II in the
mesenchyme. At the cap stage, BMPR–IB was detected in the epithelium but not BMPR–II, suggesting the existence of another
type II receptor to form a functional dimer. At the late cap stage in the epithelium, BMP–4, BMPR–IA and –II were restricted
to the internal part of the PEK and the stalk: two apoptotic areas. The three proteins were detected in the mesenchyme, showing
a strong staining where cusps were about to form. At the late bell stage, BMP–2 or –4 may induce cell differentiation. BMPR–IB
and –II were detected in odontoblasts instead of BMPR–IA and –II in ameloblasts. These results provide the first evidence
of multiple type I and type II BMP–receptors, expressed in the dental epithelium and mesenchyme at different stages of development,
to signal different cellular activities in a time– and tissue–specific way. 相似文献