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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
19
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-7
pubmed:abstractText
Caspases are universal effectors of apoptosis. The mitochondrial and death receptor pathways activate distinct apical caspases (caspase-9 and -8, respectively) that converge on the proteolytic activation of the downstream executioner caspase-3. Caspase-9 and -8 cleave procaspase-3 to produce a p24 processing intermediate (composed of its prodomain and large subunit), which then undergoes autoproteolytic cleavage to remove the prodomain from the active protease. Recently, several heat shock proteins have been shown to selectively inhibit the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway by disrupting the activation of caspase-9 downstream of cytochrome c release. We report here that the small heat shock protein alphaB-crystallin inhibits both the mitochondrial and death receptor pathways. In S-100 cytosolic extracts treated with cytochrome c/dATP or caspase-8, alphaB-crystallin inhibits the autoproteolytic maturation of the p24 partially processed caspase-3 intermediate. In contrast, neither the closely related small heat shock protein family member Hsp27 nor Hsp70 inhibited the maturation of the p24 intermediate. We also demonstrate that alphaB-crystallin co-immunoprecipitates with the p24 partially processed caspase-3 in vivo. Taken together, our results demonstrate that alphaB-crystallin is a novel negative regulator of apoptosis that acts distally in the conserved cell death machinery by inhibiting the autocatalytic maturation of caspase-3.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CASP3 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CASP8 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CASP9 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspase 3, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspase 8, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspase 9, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Crystallins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cytochrome c Group, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Etoposide, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Heat-Shock Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
276
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
16059-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Caspase 3, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Caspase 8, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Caspase 9, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Crystallins, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Cytochrome c Group, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Etoposide, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Heat-Shock Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:11274139-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
The small heat shock protein alpha B-crystallin negatively regulates cytochrome c- and caspase-8-dependent activation of caspase-3 by inhibiting its autoproteolytic maturation.
pubmed:affiliation
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't