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- Title
Death Receptors and Caspases But Not Mitochondria Are Activated in the GDNF- or BDNF-Deprived Dopaminergic Neurons.
- Authors
Li-ying Yu; Saarma, Mart; Arumäe, Urmas
- Abstract
Neurotrophic factors, including glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), promote survival of midbrain dopaminergic neurons, but the death pathways activated in the dopaminergic neurons by deprivation of these factors are poorly studied. We show here that deprivation of GDNF or BDNF triggers a novel mitochondria-independent death pathway in the cultured embryonic dopaminergic neurons: cytochrome c was not released from the mitochondria to cytosol, proapoptotic protein Bax was not activated, and overexpressed Bcl-xL did not block the death. Caspases were critically required, because the death was completely blocked by caspase inhibitor BAF [boc-aspartyl(OMe)-fluoromethylketone] and overexpression of dominant-negative mutants of caspase-9, -3, and -7 significantly blocked the death. Also, the death receptor pathway was involved, because blockage of caspase-8 or FADD (Fas-associated protein with death domain), an adapter required for caspase-8 activation, inhibited death induced by GDNF or BDNF deprivation. Ligation of Fas by agonistic anti-Fas antibody induced apoptosis in the GDNF- or BDNF-maintained neurons, and inhibition of Fas by Fas-Fc chimera blocked the death of GDNF- or BDNF-deprived neurons, whereas FAIML (long isoform of Fas apoptosis inhibitory molecule) could control the activity of Fas in the dopaminergic neurons.
- Subjects
MITOCHONDRIA; CYTOCHROME c; CYTOSOL; DOPAMINERGIC neurons; DOPAMINERGIC mechanisms
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, 2008, Vol 28, Issue 30, p7467
- ISSN
0270-6474
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1877-08.2008