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Different roles of spermine in glucocorticoid- and Fas-induced apoptosis

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Two experimental systems representative of the mitochondrial and death receptor apoptotic pathways are the dexamethasone-induced programmed cell death in mouse thymocytes and the antibody-mediated cross-ligation of the Fas receptor in the human leukemic T-cell line Jurkat, respectively. In both cell systems, caspase-9, -8, and -3 were activated upon induction of apoptosis and a sub-G(1) peak appeared as a sign of ongoing DNA fragmentation. Addition of 1 mM spermine together with dexamethasone inhibited caspase activation and the appearance of the sub-G(1) peak in mouse thymocytes. In contrast, Fas-induced cell death was totally unaffected by spermine addition. Spermine addition significantly elevated the spermine concentration in both thymocytes and Jurkat cells. Thus, spermine per se did not inhibit the caspases but rather their activation. The fact that spermine inhibited caspase activation only in the thymocytes implies that spermine inhibited dexamethasone-induced apoptosis upstream of caspase-9 activation.

Publiceringsår

2001

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

333-341

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Experimental Cell Research

Volym

266

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Academic Press

Ämne

  • Cancer and Oncology

Nyckelord

  • glucocorticoid
  • apoptosis
  • Fas death receptor
  • thymocytes
  • Jurkat cells
  • sub-G1 peak
  • cell cycle phase distribution
  • polyamines
  • caspases
  • flow cytometry

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1090-2422