Smac/DIABLO is required for effector caspase activation during apoptosis in human cells

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1503-1510 - 2007
Krishnaraj Rajalingam1,2, Monique Oswald1, Kathleen Gottschalk1, Thomas Rudel1
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
2Institut fur Medizinische Strahlenkunde und Zellforschung, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universitat, Wurzburg, Germany

Tóm tắt

Mitochondria play a pivotal role during stress-induced apoptosis as several proapoptotic proteins are released to the cytosol to activate caspases. Smac/DIABLO is one of the proapoptotic proteins released from the mitochondria and has been shown to inactivate IAPs. However, gene knockout studies in mice revealed a redundant role for Smac during development and cell death. By applying RNA interference-mediated loss of function approach, we demonstrate that Smac/DIABLO is required for the activation of effector but not initiator caspases during stress and receptor-mediated cell death in HeLa cells. Cells with reduced Smac resist apoptosis and retained clonogenicity. Our results suggest an obligatory role for Smac/DIABLO in these tumor cells during several pathways of apoptosis induction.

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