title: Caspases activation in hyperthermia-induced stimulation of TRAIL apoptosis.
abstract: In leukemia cells, hyperthermia enhances tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-induced apoptosis. The phenomenon is caspase-dependent and results in membrane changes leading to an increased recognition of TRAIL death receptors by TRAIL. Because either caspase-2 or an apical proteolytic event has been recently proposed to act as an initiator of the cell death mechanism induced by heat shock, we have investigated the hierarchy of caspase activation in cells exposed to the combined heat shock plus TRAIL treatment. We report here that caspases-2, -3, and -8 were the first caspases to be activated. As expected, caspase-8 is required and indispensable during the initiation of this death signaling. Caspase-2 may also participate in the phenomenon but, in contrast to caspase-8, its presence appears dispensable because its depletion by small interfering RNA is devoid of effects. Our observations also suggest a role of caspase-3 and of a particular cleaved form of this caspase during the early signals of heat shock plus TRAIL-induced apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Stress, Chaperons et Mort Cellulaire, CNRS UMR 5534, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1, 16 rue Dubois, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Maryline
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moulin
authors.forename: André-Patrick
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Arrigo
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology*; D061945:Caspase Inhibitors; D020169:Caspases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D005334:Fever; D006801:Humans; D019169:Jurkat Cells; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D053221:TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D061945:Caspase Inhibitors; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; D053221:TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; D020169:Caspases