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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 1, 2000, 20(1):259-265
Proteasome Inhibitors Induce Cytochrome c-Caspase-3-Like
Protease-Mediated Apoptosis in Cultured Cortical Neurons
Jian Hua
Qiu1,
Akio
Asai1, 3,
Shunji
Chi1, 3,
Nobuhito
Saito1,
Hirofumi
Hamada2, and
Takaaki
Kirino1, 3
1 Laboratory for Neuroscience and Neurooncology,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8655 Japan,
2 Department of Molecular Biotherapy Research, Cancer
Chemotherapy Center, Cancer Institute, Tokyo, 170-8455 Japan, and
3 CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and
Technology), Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi,
332-0012 Japan
The ubiquitin-proteasome protein degradation pathway is crucial in
controlling intracellular levels of a variety of short-lived proteins
and maintaining cellular growth and metabolism. In a previous study, we
showed the accumulation of conjugated ubiquitin in CA1 neurons of the
gerbil after 5 min of forebrain ischemia (Morimoto et al., 1996; Ide et
al., 1999). The accumulation of conjugated ubiquitin may reflect
proteasome malfunction. In the present study, we investigated the
effects of proteasome inhibitors on primary neuronal cultures to
determine whether proteasomal malfunction induces neuronal death. When
carbobenzoxy-Leu-Leu-Leu-aldehyde or lactacystin, two different
types of proteasome inhibitors, were separately used to suppress
proteasome activity, we observed induction of apoptotic neuronal cell
death in both cases. During the apoptotic process, mitochondrial
membrane potential was disrupted, cytochrome-c was released from
mitochondria into the cytosol, and caspase-3-like proteases were
activated. Apoptosis was inhibited by pretreatment with
acetyl-aspartyl-glutamyl-valyl-aspart-1-aldehyde or
overexpression of Bcl-x/L. These results demonstrated that suppression of proteasome function induces neuronal apoptosis via the
release of cytochrome c from mitochondria and activation of
caspase-3-like proteases.
Key words:
neuron; apoptosis; proteasome; cytochrome c; caspase-3-like proteases; ubiquitin
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/0/201259-07$05.00/0
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