We report here the purification of the third protein factor, Apaf-3, that participates in caspase-3 activation in vitro. Apaf-3 was identified as a member of the caspase family, caspase-9. Caspase-9 and Apaf-1 bind to each other via their respective NH2-terminal CED-3 homologous domains in the presence of cytochrome c and dATP, an ...
Journal: Cell , vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 479-489, 1997 A cell-free system based on cytosols of normally growing cells is established that reproduces aspects of the apoptotic program in vitro. The apoptotic program is initiated by addition of dATP. Fractionation of cytosol yielded a 15 kDa protein that is required for in vitro apoptosis. The absorption spectrum and protein sequence revealed that this protein is cytochrome c. Elimination ...
Journal: Cell , vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 147-157, 1996 We report here the purification of a cytosolic protein that induces cytochrome c release from mitochondria in response to caspase-8, the apical caspase activated by cell surface death receptors such as Fas and TNF. Peptide mass fingerprinting identified this protein as Bid, a BH3 domain–containing protein known to interact with both Bcl2 and Bax. Caspase-8 cleaves Bid, ...
Journal: Cell , vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 481-490, 1998 Journal: Science , vol. 275, no. 5303, pp. 1129-1132, 1997 We report here the purification and cDNA cloning of Apaf-1, a novel 130 kd protein from HeLa cell cytosol that participates in the cytochrome c–dependent activation of caspase-3. The NH2-terminal 85 amino acids of Apaf-1 show 21% identity and 53% similarity to the NH2-terminal prodomain of the Caenorhabditis elegans caspase, CED-3. This is ...
Journal: Cell , vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 405-413, 1997 We have identified and purified from HeLa cytosol a protein that induces DNA fragmentation in coincubated nuclei after it is activated by caspase-3. This protein, designated DNA Fragmentation Factor (DFF), is a heterodimer of 40 kDa and 45 kDa subunits. The amino acid sequence of the 45 kDa subunit, determined from its cDNA sequence, reveals it to be a ...
Journal: Cell , vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 175-184, 1997 Xiaodong Wang
Xiaodong Wang
Journal: Cell , vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 53-62, 1994 Xuejun Jiang, Xiaodong Wang The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway is initiated by processing long double-stranded RNA into small interfering RNA (siRNA). The siRNA-generating enzyme was purified from Drosophila S2 cells and consists of two stoichiometric subunits: Dicer-2 (DCR-2) and a previously unknown protein that we named R2D2. R2D2 is homologous to the Caenorhabditis elegans RNAi protein RDE-4. Association with ...
Journal: Science , vol. 301, no. 5641, pp. 1921-1925, 2003 We report here the reconstitution of a path- way that leads to the apoptotic changes in nuclei by using recombinant DNA fragmentation factor (DFF), a heterodimeric protein of 40 and 45 kDa. Coexpression of DFF40 and DFF45 is required to generate recombinant DFF, which becomes activated when DFF45 is cleaved by caspase-3. The cleaved fragments of DFF45 dissociate from ...
Cytochrome c released from mitochondria has been proposed to be an essential component of an apoptotic pathway responsive to DNA damage and other forms of cell stress. Murine embryos devoid of cytochrome c die in utero by midgestation, but cell lines established from early cytochrome c null embryos are viable under conditions that compensate for defective oxidative phosphorylation. As compared ...
Journal: Cell , vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 389-399, 2000 updated authors - pairuc
Journal: Cell , vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 187-197, 1993 We describe the synthesis and properties of a small molecule mimic of Smac, a pro-apoptotic protein that functions by relieving inhibitor-of-apoptosis protein (IAP)-mediated suppression of caspase activity. The compound binds to X chromosome-encoded IAP (XIAP), cellular IAP 1 (cIAP-1), and cellular IAP 2 (cIAP-2) and synergizes with both tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) ...
Journal: Science , vol. 305, no. 5689, pp. 1471-1474, 2004 We report the cDNA cloning of SREBP-2, the second member of a family of basic-helix-loop-helix-leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) transcription factors that recognize sterol regulatory element 1 (SRE-1). SRE-1, a conditional enhancer in the promoters for the low density lipoprotein receptor and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase genes, increases transcription in the ...
Xuejun Jiang, Hyun-Eui Kim, Hongjun Shu, Yingming Zhao, Haichao Zhang, James Kofron, Jennifer Donnelly, Dave Burns,Shi-chung Ng, Saul Rosenberg, Xiaodong Wang A small molecule, alpha-(trichloromethyl)-4-pyridineethanol (PETCM), was identified by high-throughput screening as an activator of caspase-3 in extracts of a panel of cancer cells. PETCM was used in combination with biochemical fractionation to identify a pathway that regulates mitochondria-initiated caspase activation. This pathway consists of tumor suppressor putative HLA-DR-associated proteins (PHAP) and oncoprotein ...
Journal: Science , vol. 299, no. 5604, pp. 223-226, 2003 The apoptosome is an Apaf-1 cytochrome c complex that activates procaspase-9. The three-dimensional structure of the apoptosome has been determined at 27 Å resolution, to reveal a wheel-like particle with 7-fold symmetry. Molecular modeling was used to identify the caspase recruitment and WD40 domains within the apoptosome and to infer likely positions of the CED4...
High-dose Ara-C (HIDAC) induces the cleavage and activity of caspase.3 (CPP32fi/Yama/apopaln), resulting in the morphological and biochemical features of apoptosi& High levels of the antiapoptotic Bcl-xL or Bcl-2, relative to the proapoptotic Bax, have been shown to inhibIt HIDAC-induced cleavage and activity of caspase-3 and apoptosis of the human ...
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Published in 1996.
Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation of HeLa cells triggers an apoptotic response mediated by mitochondria. Biochemical analysis of this response revealed that the elimination of cytosolic inhibitors is required for mitochondrial release of cytochrome c and subsequent caspase activation. These inhibitors were found to be Mcl-1 and Bcl-xL, two antiapoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family. Following UV treatment, Mcl-...
Published in 2008.