Endoplasmic reticulum stress and alteration in calcium homeostasis are involved in cadmium-induced apoptosis |
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Authors: | Biagioli Marta Pifferi Simone Ragghianti Matilde Bucci Stefania Rizzuto Rosario Pinton Paolo |
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Institution: | Laboratory of Cellular and Development Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy. biagioli@sissa.it |
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Abstract: | Cadmium, a toxic environmental contaminant, exerts adverse effects on different cellular pathways such as cell proliferation, DNA damage and apoptosis. In particular, the modulation of Ca(2+) homeostasis seems to have an important role during Cd(2+) injury, but the precise assessment of Ca(2+) signalling still remains poorly understood. We used aequorin-based probes specifically directed to intracellular organelles to study Ca(2+) changes during cadmium injury. We observed that cadmium decreased agonist-evoked endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) signals and caused a 40% inhibition of sarcoplasmic-ER calcium ATPases activity. Moreover, time course experiments correlate morphological alterations, processing of xbp-1 mRNA and caspase-12 activation during cadmium administration. Finally, the time response of ER to cadmium injury was compared with that of mitochondria. In conclusion, we highlighted a novel pathway of cadmium-induced cell death triggered by ER stress and involving caspase-12. Mitochondria and ER pathways seemed to share common time courses and a parallel activation of caspase-12 and caspase-9 seemed likely to be involved in acute cadmium toxicity. |
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