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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 15, 1999, 19(8):2996-3006
Contribution of p53-Dependent Caspase Activation to Neuronal Cell
Death Declines with Neuronal Maturation
Mark D.
Johnson ,
Yoshito
Kinoshita ,
Hong
Xiang ,
Saadi
Ghatan, and
Richard S.
Morrison
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School
of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195-6470
Caspases play a pivotal role in neuronal cell death during
development and after trophic factor withdrawal. However, the
mechanisms regulating caspase activity and the role played by caspase
activation in response to neuronal injury is poorly understood. The
tumor suppressor gene p53 has been implicated in the loss of neuronal viability caused by excitotoxic and DNA damaging agents. In the present
study we determined if p53-mediated neuronal cell death required
caspase activation. DNA damage increased caspase activity in both
cultured embryonic telencephalic and postnatal cortical neurons in a
p53-dependent manner. Caspase inhibitors protected embryonic
telencephalic neurons, but not postnatal cortical neurons, from DNA
damage-induced cell death as measured by direct cell counting and
annexin V staining. In marked contrast to the caspase inhibitors, an
inhibitor of the DNA repair enzyme, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase,
conferred significant protection from genotoxic and excitotoxic cell
death on postnatal cortical neurons but had no effect on embryonic
neurons. Glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity in postnatal neurons was not
associated with measurable changes in caspase activity, consistent with
the failure of caspase inhibitors to prevent cell death under these
conditions. Moreover, adenovirus-mediated overexpression of p53 killed
embryonic and postnatal neurons without activating caspases. Thus,
p53-mediated neuronal cell death may occur via both caspase-dependent
and caspase-independent pathways. These results demonstrate that p53 is
required for caspase activation in response to some forms of neuronal
injury. However, the relative importance of caspase activation in
neurons depends on the developmental status of the cell and the
specific nature of the death stimulus.
Key words:
apoptosis; caspase; DNA damage; excitotoxicity; neuronal
cell death; p53
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/1982996-11$05.00/0
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