死亡域
Fas配体
程序性细胞死亡
半胱氨酸蛋白酶
细胞凋亡
Fas受体
生物
半胱氨酸蛋白酶8
分子生物学
受体
半胱氨酸蛋白酶3
下调和上调
细胞生物学
基因
生物化学
作者
Jianhua Qiu,Michael J. Whalen,Pedro R. Löwenstein,Gary Fiskum,B. Fahy,Ribal Darwish,Bizhan Aarabi,Junying Yuan,Michael A. Moskowitz
标识
DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.22-09-03504.2002
摘要
Recent studies have implicated Fas in the pathogenesis of inflammatory, ischemic, and traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, a direct link between Fas activation and caspase-mediated cell death has not been established in injured brain. We detected Fas–Fas ligand binding and assembly of death-inducing signaling complexes (DISCs) [Fas, Fas-associated protein with death domain, and procaspase-8 or procaspase-10; receptor interacting protein (RIP)–RIP-associated interleukin-1β converting enzyme and CED-3 homolog-1/Ced 3 homologous protein with a death domain–procaspase-2] by immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting within mouse parietal cortex after controlled cortical impact. At the time of DISC assembly, procaspase-8 was cleaved and the cleavage product appeared at 48 hr in terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated biotinylated UTP nick end labeling-positive neurons. Cleavage of caspase-8 was accompanied by caspase-3 processing detected at 48 hr by immunohistochemistry, and by caspase-specific cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase at 12 hr. Fas pathways were also stimulated by TBI in human brain, because Fas expression plus Fas–procaspase-8 interaction were robust in contused cortical tissue samples surgically removed between 2 and 30 hr after injury. To address whether Fas functions as a death receptor in brain cells, cultured embryonic day 17 cortical neurons were transfected with an adenoviral vector containing the gene encoding Fas ligand. After 48 hr in culture, Fas ligand expression and Fas–procaspase-8 DISC assembly increased, and by 72 hr, cell death was pronounced. Cell death was decreased by ∼50% after pan-caspase inhibition (Z-Val-ALa-Asp(Ome)-fluoromethylketone). These data suggest that Fas-associated DISCs assemble in neurons overexpressing Fas ligand as well as within mouse and human contused brain after TBI. Therefore, Fas may function as a death receptor after brain injury.
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