Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2015-01-16

Activation of apoptosis by caspase-3-dependent specific RelB cleavage in anticancer agent-treated cancer cells: involvement of positive feedback mechanism.

Mizuki Kuboki, Ayumi Ito, Siro Simizu, Kazuo Umezawa

Index: Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 456(3) , 810-4, (2015)

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Abstract

DTCM-glutarimide (DTCM-G) is a newly found anti-inflammatory agent. In the course of experiments with lymphoma cells, we found that DTCM-G induced specific RelB cleavage. Anticancer agent vinblastine also induced the specific RelB cleavage in human fibrosarcoma HT1080 cells. The site-directed mutagenesis analysis revealed that the Asp205 site in RelB was specifically cleaved possibly by caspase-3 in vinblastine-treated HT1080 cells. Moreover, the cells stably overexpressing RelB Asp205Ala were resistant to vinblastine-induced apoptosis. Thus, the specific Asp205 cleavage of RelB by caspase-3 would be involved in the apoptosis induction by anticancer agents, which would provide the positive feedback mechanism. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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