We have studied the death response induced by yessotoxin (YTX) in cultured HeLa cells, and have compared it to that triggered by okadaic acid (OA) in the same experimental system. Sub-nanomolar concentrations of YTX were found to induce HeLa cell death after a 48-96-h incubation. YTX caused loss of intact poly(ADP-ribose)-polymerase (PARP) in HeLa cells, and detection of the 85kDa fragment, which is indicative of proteolytic attack by caspases. Measurements of caspase activities using extracts prepared from YTX-treated cells and substrates of the caspase-3/7 and caspase-2 isoforms, showed that the relative proteolysis of caspase-3/7 substrate was about eight-fold higher than that of caspase-2, the levels of which were about twice those measured with extracts from control cells. These findings were matched by Western blot analyses of caspase-2, -3 and -7 in HeLa cell extracts, which showed that the levels of pro-caspase-2 were not greatly affected by YTX treatment, whereas pro-caspase-3 and -7 were activated in YTX-treated cells. Taken together, these data complement others previously obtained with OA, and support the notion that caspase isoforms involved in cell death induced by OA and YTX are cell- and toxin-specific. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Caspase activation and death induced by yessotoxin in HeLa cells / C., Malaguti; P., Ciminiello; E., Fattorusso; Rossini, Gian Paolo. - In: TOXICOLOGY IN VITRO. - ISSN 0887-2333. - STAMPA. - 16:4(2002), pp. 357-363. [10.1016/S0887-2333(02)00021-8]

Caspase activation and death induced by yessotoxin in HeLa cells

ROSSINI, Gian Paolo
2002

Abstract

We have studied the death response induced by yessotoxin (YTX) in cultured HeLa cells, and have compared it to that triggered by okadaic acid (OA) in the same experimental system. Sub-nanomolar concentrations of YTX were found to induce HeLa cell death after a 48-96-h incubation. YTX caused loss of intact poly(ADP-ribose)-polymerase (PARP) in HeLa cells, and detection of the 85kDa fragment, which is indicative of proteolytic attack by caspases. Measurements of caspase activities using extracts prepared from YTX-treated cells and substrates of the caspase-3/7 and caspase-2 isoforms, showed that the relative proteolysis of caspase-3/7 substrate was about eight-fold higher than that of caspase-2, the levels of which were about twice those measured with extracts from control cells. These findings were matched by Western blot analyses of caspase-2, -3 and -7 in HeLa cell extracts, which showed that the levels of pro-caspase-2 were not greatly affected by YTX treatment, whereas pro-caspase-3 and -7 were activated in YTX-treated cells. Taken together, these data complement others previously obtained with OA, and support the notion that caspase isoforms involved in cell death induced by OA and YTX are cell- and toxin-specific. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Caspase activation and death induced by yessotoxin in HeLa cells / C., Malaguti; P., Ciminiello; E., Fattorusso; Rossini, Gian Paolo. - In: TOXICOLOGY IN VITRO. - ISSN 0887-2333. - STAMPA. - 16:4(2002), pp. 357-363. [10.1016/S0887-2333(02)00021-8]
C., Malaguti; P., Ciminiello; E., Fattorusso; Rossini, Gian Paolo
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