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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 2001, 21(14):5017-5026
Cyclin-Dependent Kinases and P53 Pathways Are Activated
Independently and Mediate Bax Activation in Neurons after DNA
Damage
Erick J.
Morris1,
Elizabeth
Keramaris2,
Hardy
J.
Rideout3,
Ruth S.
Slack2,
Nicholas J.
Dyson1,
Leonidas
Stefanis3, and
David S.
Park2
1 Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center,
Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, 2 Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada, and 3 Columbia University,
New York, New York 10032
DNA damage has been implicated as one important initiator of cell
death in neuropathological conditions such as stroke. Accordingly, it
is important to understand the signaling processes that control neuronal death induced by this stimulus. Previous evidence has shown
that the death of embryonic cortical neurons treated with the
DNA-damaging agent camptothecin is dependent on the tumor suppressor
p53 and cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) activity and that the inhibition
of either pathway alone leads to enhanced and prolonged survival. We
presently show that p53 and CDKs are activated independently on
parallel pathways. An increase in p53 protein levels, nuclear
localization, and DNA binding that result from DNA damage are not
affected by the inhibition of CDK activity. Conversely, no decrease in
retinoblastoma protein (pRb) phosphorylation was observed in
p53-deficient neurons that were treated with camptothecin. However,
either p53 deficiency or the inhibition of CDK activity alone inhibited
Bax translocation, cytochrome c release, and
caspase-3-like activation. Taken together, our results indicate that
p53 and CDK are activated independently and then act in concert to
control Bax-mediated apoptosis.
Key words:
apoptosis; p53; CDK; neuronal; cell cycle; Bax
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21145017-10$05.00/0
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