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Potential involvement of serine/threonine protein phosphatases in apoptosis of HepG2 cells during selenite treatment
Authors:Handan Ak Celik  Fatih Kircelli  Guray Saydam  Himet Hakan Aydin
Affiliation:(1) Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Bornova, TR-35100 Izmir, Turkey;(2) Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Bornova, TR-35100 Izmir, Turkey;(3) Department of Hematology, School of Medicine, Bornova, TR-35100 Izmir, Turkey
Abstract:Selenium, an essential biological trace element present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, exerts its regulatory effect in a variety of cellular events, including cell growth, survival, and death. Selenium compunds have been shown in different cell lines to inhibit apoptosis by several mechanisms. Serine/threonine phosphatases (STPs) are potentially important in selenite-induced apoptosis because of their role in regulation of diverse set of cellular processes. In this study, the regulatory role of STPs in selenite-induced apoptosis has been implied by the use of two specific inhibitors: ocadaic acid and calyculin A. Our results show a decrease in cell density in HepG2 cells under selenite treatment. Resulting specific enzyme activities showed a concentration-dependent increase in all three phosphatase activities after 24 h in cells treated with 5 μM selenite and these activities decreased at 48 and 72 h. However, in cells treated with 10μM selenite, PP2A and PP2B decreased at 48 h, whereas PP2C activity did not change at this dose. In cells treated with 25μM, there was not a significant change in PP2C activity. These data suggest that the most specific response to selenite treatment was in PP2A and PP2B activities in a dose-dependent manner. Our results with OA and Cal-A further support the view that PP1 and PP2A might act as negative regulators of growth. With these data, we have first demonstrated the role of serine/threonine protein phosphatases in the signaling pathway of selenite-induced apoptosis and resulting cytotoxicity
Keywords:Selenium  apoptosis  PP1  PP2A  PP2B  PP2C  HepG2 cells
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