title: A protective role for the human SMG-1 kinase against tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced apoptosis.
abstract: The human suppressor of morphogenesis in genitalia-1 (hSMG-1) protein kinase plays dual roles in mRNA surveillance and genotoxic stress response pathways in human cells. Here, we report that small interfering RNA-mediated depletion of hSMG-1, but not ATM, ATR, hUpf1, or hUpf2, in human U2OS osteosarcoma cells markedly increases the magnitude and accelerates the rate of apoptosis induced by tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) stimulation. The increase in TNFalpha-mediated cell killing observed in hSMG-1-depleted cells is not related to the suppression of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay or to the inhibition of TNFalpha-induced NF-kappaB activation. Rather, we observed that loss of hSMG-1 accelerates the degradation of the long form of the FLICE-inhibitory protein (FLIP(L)), an inhibitor of death-inducing signaling complex-mediated caspase-8 activation, in TNFalpha-treated cells. These results suggest that hSMG-1 plays an important role in cell survival during TNFalpha-induced stress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Therapeutics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA.
authors.forename: Vasco
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Romanow
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Geisen
authors.forename: Diane M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Otterness
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mercurio
authors.forename: Hong Gang
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: William S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Dalton
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Abraham
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D053446:CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D019610:Cytoprotection / Q000187:drug effects*; D053418:Death Domain Receptor Signaling Adaptor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000235:genetics; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D053446:CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating Protein; D053418:Death Domain Receptor Signaling Adaptor Proteins; D016328:NF-kappa B; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; C514704:SMG1 protein, human