Zinc induced apoptotic death of mouse dendritic cells |
| |
Authors: | Ekaterina Shumilina Nguyen Thi Xuan Evi Schmid Shefalee K. Bhavsar Kalina Szteyn Shuchen Gu Friedrich Götz Florian Lang |
| |
Affiliation: | 1.Department of Physiology,University of Tübingen,Tübingen,Germany;2.Department of Microbial Genetics,University of Tübingen,Tübingen,Germany;3.Physiologisches Institut der Universit?t Tübingen,Tübingen,Germany |
| |
Abstract: | Zinc ions (Zn2+) are food components with favourable effects in infectious disease. Zn2+ is taken up into dendritic cells (DCs), key players in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. In other cell types, Zn2+ has been shown to stimulate the formation of ceramide, which is in turn known to trigger suicidal cell death. The present study explored whether Zn2+ modifies ceramide formation and survival of bone marrow derived DCs. To this end, DCs were isolated from acid sphingomyelinase knockout (asm −/−) and corresponding wild type (asm +/+) mice and treated with different concentrations of Zn2+. Ceramide formation was assessed with anti-ceramide antibodies in FACS and immunohistochemical analysis, sub-G1 cell population by FACS analysis, break down of phosphatidylserine asymmetry by annexin V binding, cell death by propidium iodide incorporation, metabolic cell activity by MTT assay, ROS production from dichlorofluorescein fluorescence and activation of MAPKs by Western blotting. The treatment of asm +/+ DCs with low Zn2+ concentrations (up to 100 μM) was followed by ceramide formation, increase in sub-G1 cell population and phosphatidylserine exposure, effects blunted in asm −/− DCs. The treatment of DCs with C2-ceramide increased the percentage of sub-G1 and apoptotic DCs from both genotypes. Zn2+ led to similar activation of MAPKs in asm +/+ and asm −/− DCs and did not affect ROS production. Higher concentrations of Zn2+ led to a marked increase of propidium iodide incorporation in DCs of both genotypes. The present study reveals that in DCs Zn2+ triggers ceramide formation, which in turn compromises cell survival. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|