TY - JOUR
T1 - Heat shock induces apoptosis independently of any known initiator caspase-activating complex
AU - Milleron, Rania S.
AU - Bratton, Shawn B.
PY - 2006/6/23
Y1 - 2006/6/23
N2 - Adaptive responses to mild heat shock are among the most widely conserved and studied in nature. More intense heat shock, however, induces apoptosis through mechanisms that remain largely unknown. Herein, we present evidence that heat shock activates an apical protease that stimulates mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization and processing of the effector caspase-3 in a benzyloxycarbonyl-VAD-fluoromethyl ketone (polycaspase inhibitor)- and Bcl-2-inhibitable manner. Surprisingly, however, neither FADD·caspase-8 nor RAIDD·caspase-2 PIDDosome (p53-induced protein with a death domain) complexes were detected in dying cells, and neither of these initiator caspases nor the endoplasmic reticulum stress-activated caspases-4/12 were required for mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization. Similarly, although cytochrome c was released from mitochondria following heat shock, functional Apaf-1·caspase-9 apoptosome complexes were not formed, and caspase-9 was not essential for the activation of caspase-3 or the induction of apoptosis. Thus, heat shock does not require any of the known initiator caspases or their activating complexes to promote apoptotic cell death but instead relies upon the activation of an apparently novel apical protease with caspase-like activity.
AB - Adaptive responses to mild heat shock are among the most widely conserved and studied in nature. More intense heat shock, however, induces apoptosis through mechanisms that remain largely unknown. Herein, we present evidence that heat shock activates an apical protease that stimulates mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization and processing of the effector caspase-3 in a benzyloxycarbonyl-VAD-fluoromethyl ketone (polycaspase inhibitor)- and Bcl-2-inhibitable manner. Surprisingly, however, neither FADD·caspase-8 nor RAIDD·caspase-2 PIDDosome (p53-induced protein with a death domain) complexes were detected in dying cells, and neither of these initiator caspases nor the endoplasmic reticulum stress-activated caspases-4/12 were required for mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization. Similarly, although cytochrome c was released from mitochondria following heat shock, functional Apaf-1·caspase-9 apoptosome complexes were not formed, and caspase-9 was not essential for the activation of caspase-3 or the induction of apoptosis. Thus, heat shock does not require any of the known initiator caspases or their activating complexes to promote apoptotic cell death but instead relies upon the activation of an apparently novel apical protease with caspase-like activity.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M512754200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M512754200
M3 - Article
C2 - 16618700
AN - SCOPUS:33745223497
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 281
SP - 16991
EP - 17000
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 25
ER -