title: Induction of CPP32-like activity in PC12 cells by withdrawal of trophic support. Dissociation from apoptosis.
abstract: Inhibitors of interleukin-1beta converting enzyme (ICE) and a related group of cysteine aspartases of the ICE/ced-3 family inhibit cell death in a variety of settings, including in PC12 cells and sympathetic neurons following withdrawal of trophic support. To assess the particular member(s) of the ICE/ced-3 family that are relevant to cell death and to position their activation within the apoptotic pathway, we have used specific substrates to measure ICE-like and CPP32-like enzymatic activity in naive and neuronally differentiated PC12 cells that had been deprived of trophic support (nerve growth factor and/or serum). Rapid induction of CPP32-like, but not ICE-like, activity was observed. c-Jun kinase activation and the action of bcl-2 and other survival agents, such as cell cycle blockers, a NO generator, N-acetylcysteine, aurintricarboxylic acid, and actinomycin D occurred at a point further upstream in the apoptotic pathway compared with the aspartase activation. In living cells, zVAD-FMK, a pseudosubstrate aspartase inhibitor, blocked the activity/activation of the aspartase at concentrations about one order of magnitude lower than those required to promote survival, raising the possibility that the CPP32-like aspartase is not the main death effector in this model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research and Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA. ls76@columbia.edu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stefanis
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Farinelli
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Troy
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Shelanski
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D020170:Caspase 1; D053148:Caspase 3; D020169:Caspases; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000378:metabolism*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D016716:PC12 Cells; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D007375:Interleukin-1; D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases; D017871:Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases; D048031:JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; C505410:Casp3 protein, rat; D053148:Caspase 3; D020169:Caspases; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D020170:Caspase 1