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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-29
pubmed:abstractText
During apoptosis, cytochrome c is released from mitochondria into the cytosol, where it participates in caspase activation. Various and often conflicting mechanisms have been proposed to account for the increased permeability of the mitochondrial outer membrane that is responsible for this process. The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) is the major permeability pathway for metabolites in the mitochondrial outer membrane and therefore is a very attractive candidate for cytochrome c translocation. Here, we report that properties of VDAC channels reconstituted into planar phospholipid membranes are unaffected by addition of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax under a variety of conditions. Contrary to other reports (Shimizu, S., Narita, M., and Tsujimoto, Y. (1999) Nature 399, 483-487; Shimizu, S., Ide, T., Yanagida, T., and Tsujimoto, Y. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 12321-12325; Shimizu, S., Konishi, A., Kodama, T., and Tsujimoto, Y. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97, 3100-3105), we found no electrophysiologically detectable interaction between VDAC channels isolated from mammalian mitochondria and either monomeric or oligomeric forms of Bax. We conclude that Bax does not induce cytochrome c release by acting on VDAC. In contrast to Bax, another pro-apoptotic protein (Bid) proteolytically cleaved with caspase-8 affected the voltage gating of VDAC by inducing channel closure. We speculate that by decreasing the probability of VDAC opening, Bid reduces metabolite exchange between mitochondria and the cytosol, leading to mitochondrial dysfunction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/BH3 Interacting Domain Death..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bax protein, rat, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bid protein, rat, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Casp8 protein, rat, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspase 8, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Porins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/bcl-2-Associated X Protein
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13575-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-BH3 Interacting Domain Death Agonist Protein, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Caspase 8, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Cytosol, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Intracellular Membranes, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Ion Channel Gating, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Membrane Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Mitochondria, Liver, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Porins, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:14729675-bcl-2-Associated X Protein
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Bid, but not Bax, regulates VDAC channels.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. rostovts@helix.nih.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article