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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 2001, 21(14):5007-5016
Death in the Balance: Alternative Participation of the Caspase-2
and -9 Pathways in Neuronal Death Induced by Nerve Growth Factor
Deprivation
Carol M.
Troy,
Sylvia A.
Rabacchi,
Justin B.
Hohl,
James
M.
Angelastro,
Lloyd A.
Greene, and
Michael L.
Shelanski
Department of Pathology, Taub Institute for the Study of
Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, and the Center for
Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
The data presented here demonstrate that sympathetic neurons have
the potential to activate two alternative caspase-dependent pathways
either of which is capable of mediating death induced by NGF
deprivation and that these neurons have the potential to switch from
one pathway to the other. The presence of these two alternative
pathways to trophic factor deprivation-induced death may have
implications for ensuring the correct development of the nervous
system. In wild-type neurons, a caspase-2-dependent pathway is required
for death, and a caspase-9-dependent pathway appears to be suppressed
by endogenous inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAPs). In contrast, for
caspase-2-null neurons, death is dependent on the caspase-9 pathway.
The mechanism underlying the shift is the result of a threefold
compensatory elevation of caspase-9 expression and a doubling of levels
of direct IAP binding protein with low pI (DIABLO)/second mitochondria-derived
activator of caspase (Smac), an IAP inhibitor, both at the mRNA and protein
levels. These findings resolve seemingly discrepant findings regarding the roles of various caspases after NGF deprivation and raise a
cautionary note regarding the interpretation of findings with caspase-null animals. The choice of the death-mediating caspase pathway in the sympathetic neurons is thus dependent on the regulated relative expression of components of the pathways including those of
caspases, IAPs, and IAP inhibitors.
Key words:
trophic factor deprivation; neuronal cell death; caspases; caspase-2; caspase-9; IAPs; DIABLO/Smac; sympathetic
neurons
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21145007-10$05.00/0
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