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Ba HV, Reddy BV, Hwang I. Role of calpastatin in the regulation of mRNA expression of calpain, caspase, and heat shock protein systems in bovine muscle satellite cells. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 2014; 51:447-54. [PMID: 25487673 DOI: 10.1007/s11626-014-9849-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 11/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Calpastatin participates in apoptotic cell death and cell signaling, but its role in skeletal myoblast development and molecular involvements in cell growth still remains unknown. The current study aimed to investigate the role of calpastatin on the expression patterns of calpains, caspases, and heat shock proteins (HSPs). In addition, the cell viability during myoblast growth under calpastatin silence condition was also investigated. Three small interference RNA sequences (siRNAs) were used to silence calpastatin gene and ligated into pSilencer plasmid vector to construct short hairpin RNA (shRNA) expression. The all three siRNAs significantly silence the calpastatin gene. Moreover, suppression of calpastatin significantly reduced the viability of myoblasts during growth phase when compared to control cells. Additionally, knockdown of calpastatin significantly increased the mRNA expression of μ-calpain, caspase-3, caspase-7, and caspase-9, as well as HSP-27, -70, and -90. The present study results suggested that the suppression of calpastatin resulted in the increased expression of μ-calpain, caspases, and HSPs which in turn regulate the apoptotic cell death. The present study throws light on the central role of calpastatin in the control of calpain activity, cell proliferation, cell survival, and apoptotic pathways.
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- Hoa Van Ba
- Department of Animal Science and BK21 PLUS program, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, 561-756, South Korea
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Varricchio E, Russolillo MG, Maruccio L, Velotto S, Campanile G, Paolucci M, Russo F. Immunological detection of m- and µ-calpains in the skeletal muscle of Marchigiana cattle. Eur J Histochem 2013; 57:e2. [PMID: 23549461 PMCID: PMC3683609 DOI: 10.4081/ejh.2013.e2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2012] [Revised: 10/22/2012] [Accepted: 11/14/2012] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Calpains are Ca2+-dependent proteases able to cleave a large number of proteins involved in many biological functions. Particularly, in skeletal muscle they are involved in meat tenderizing during post mortem storage. In this report we analyzed the presence and expression of µ- and m-calpains in two skeletal muscles of the Marchigiana cattle soon after slaughter, using immunocytochemical and immunohistochemical techniques, Western blotting analysis and Casein Zymography. Therefore, the presence and the activity of these proteases was investigated until 15th day post mortem during normal process of meat tenderizing. The results showed m- and µ-calpain immunosignals in the cytoplasm both along the Z disk/I band regions and in the form of intracellular stores. Moreover, the expression level of µ-calpain but not m-calpain decreased after 10 days of storage. Such a decrease in µ-calpain was accompanied by a gradual reduction of activity. On the contrary, m-calpain activity persisted up to 15 days of post mortem storage. Such data indicate that expression and activity of both µ-calpain and m-calpain analyzed in the Marchigiana cattle persist longer than reported in literature for other bovines and may be related to both the type of muscle and breed examined.
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- E Varricchio
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
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Somwaru L, Li S, Doglio L, Goldberg E, Zirkin BR. Heat-Induced Apoptosis of Mouse Meiotic Cells Is Suppressed by Ectopic Expression of Testis-Specific Calpastatin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 25:506-13. [PMID: 15223839 DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2004.tb02821.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Calpastatin is a naturally occurring inhibitor of calpain, a protease involved in apoptotic cell death. A testis-specific isoform of calpastatin (tCAST) has been identified that is transcribed in haploid germ cells but not in spermatocytes. To investigate the possible function(s) of tCAST, we tested the hypothesis that the ectopic expression of calpastatin in spermatocytes would suppress the death of these cells in response to an apoptosis-inducing stimulus in vivo. To this end, the 5'-flanking region of the mouse ldhc gene was linked to tCAST, and transgenic mice were generated. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that, in contrast to control sections in which the signal for tCAST was seen in round spermatids, intense staining was visualized in pachytene spermatocytes in the transgenic animals, indicating that the strategy we used to generate the transgenic animals resulted in the ectopic expression of tCAST in spermatocytes. We then tested the effect of a short period of heating on germ cell apoptosis in the testes of wild-type and transgenic mice. Pachytene spermatocytes were the major germ cell type seen to undergo apoptosis after heat treatment. There were no differences in the number of apoptotic germ cells per seminiferous tubule between wild-type and tCAST transgenic control mice; thus, there was no apparent effect of the transgene on normal apoptosis. Heating resulted in increased numbers of TUNEL-positive germ cells in both wild-type and tCAST transgenic mice, as well as increased testicular DNA fragmentation. Heating the tCAST transgenic mouse testes resulted in significantly fewer apoptotic cells per seminiferous tubule than in wild-type mice at both 8 and 24 hours after treatment. Thus, as hypothesized, the ectopic expression of tCAST in pachytene spermatocytes suppressed germ cell apoptosis.
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- Lily Somwaru
- Division of Reproductive Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Liu TL, Shimada H, Ochiai T, Shiratori T, Lin SE, Kitagawa M, Harigaya K, Maki M, Oka M, Abe T, Takiguchi M, Hiwasa T. Enhancement of chemosensitivity toward peplomycin by calpastatin-stabilized NF-kappaB p65 in esophageal carcinoma cells: possible involvement of Fas/Fas-L synergism. Apoptosis 2007; 11:1025-37. [PMID: 16547594 DOI: 10.1007/s10495-006-6353-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Chemosensitivity to anticancer drugs was compared between two human esophageal carcinoma cell lines, T.Tn and YES-6 cells. T.Tn cells were more resistant than YES-6 cells to peplomycin (PEP) but not to the other anticancer drugs such as camptothecin, mitomycin C and cytosine arabinoside. Western blot analysis showed higher expression levels of m-calpain and activated mu-calpain in T.Tn cells than in YES-6 cells. On the other hand, YES-6 cells showed a high expression level of calpastatin, which is a calpain-specific endogenous inhibitor. To investigate whether calpain activity was involved in the chemosensitivity, T.Tn cells were transfected with calpastatin cDNA in an inducible expression vector. The induction of calpastatin was accompanied by increased chemosensitivity to PEP. The increases in calpastatin levels were followed by serial increases in the expression levels of NF-kappaB p65 and Fas. Since purified m- or mu-calpain degraded NF-kappaB p65 in vitro, it is possible that calpastatin suppressed calpain-mediated degradation of NF-kappaB p65. Fas ligand (Fas-L) protein levels increased after treatment of the parental T.Tn and calpastatin-transfected cells with PEP, suggesting the synergism between calpastatin-induced Fas and PEP-induced Fas-L. These results suggest that calpain/calpastatin expression levels are effective markers for predicting the sensitivity of human esophageal carcinoma cells to PEP.
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- T-L Liu
- Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan
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Kim KA, Lee YA, Shin MH. Calpain-dependent calpastatin cleavage regulates caspase-3 activation during apoptosis of Jurkat T cells induced by Entamoeba histolytica. Int J Parasitol 2007; 37:1209-19. [PMID: 17498717 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2007] [Revised: 03/21/2007] [Accepted: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this study, we investigated whether there is a signalling interaction between calpain and caspase-3 during apoptosis in Jurkat T cells by Entamoeba histolytica. When Jurkat cells were co-incubated with E. histolytica, phosphatidylserine externalisation and DNA fragmentation markedly increased compared with results for cells incubated with medium alone. In addition, E. histolytica strongly induced cleavage of caspases-3, -6, -7 and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase. A rise in intracellular calcium levels and activation of calpain were seen in Jurkat cells after exposure to E. histolytica. Pretreatment of Jurkat cells with calpain inhibitor calpeptin effectively blocked E. histolytica-triggered cleavage of caspase-3 as well as calpain. In contrast, pan-caspase inhibitor did not affect E. histolytica-induced calpain activation. In addition, incubation with E. histolytica resulted in multiple fragmented bands of calpastatin, which is an endogenous inhibitor of calpain, in Jurkat T cells. Moreover, Entamoeba-induced calpastatin degradation was dramatically suppressed by pretreatment with calpeptin, but not by z-VAD-fmk. Entamoeba-induced DNA fragmentation was strongly retarded by z-VAD-fmk, but not calpeptin. Our results suggest that calpain-mediated calpastatin degradation plays a crucial role in regulation of caspase-3 activation during apoptosis of Jurkat T cells by E. histolytica.
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- Kyeong Ah Kim
- Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, and Brain Korea 21 for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Sinchon dong, Seodaemun gu, Seoul 120-752, Republic of Korea
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Tan Y, Wu C, De Veyra T, Greer PA. Ubiquitous calpains promote both apoptosis and survival signals in response to different cell death stimuli. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:17689-98. [PMID: 16632474 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m601978200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The mu- and m-calpain proteases have been implicated in both pro- or anti-apoptotic functions. Here we compared cell death responses and apoptotic or survival signaling pathways in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) derived from wild type or capn4 knock-out mice which lack both mu- and m-calpain activities. Capn4(-/-) MEFs displayed resistance to puromycin, camptothecin, etoposide, hydrogen peroxide, ultraviolet light, and serum starvation, which was consistent with pro-apoptotic roles for calpain. In contrast, capn4(-/-) MEFs were more susceptible to staurosporine (STS) and tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced cell death, which provided evidence for anti-apoptotic signaling roles for calpain. Bax activation, release of cytochrome c, and activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3 all correlated with the observed cell death responses of wild type or capn4(-/-) MEFs to the various challenges, suggesting that calpain might play distinct roles in transducing different death signals to the mitochondria. There was no evidence that calpain cleaved Bcl-2 family member proteins that regulate mitochondrial membrane permeability including Bcl-2, Bcl-xl, Bad, Bak, Bid, or Bim. However, activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3 (PI3)-kinase/Akt survival signaling pathway was compromised in capn4(-/-) MEFs under all challenges regardless of the cell death outcome, and blocking Akt activation using the PI3-kinase inhibitor LY294002 abolished the protective effect of calpain to STS challenge. We conclude that the anti-apoptotic function of calpain in tumor necrosis factor alpha- and STS-challenged cells relates to a novel role in activating the PI3-kinase/Akt survival pathway.
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- Yinfei Tan
- Division of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Queen's University Cancer Research Institute, Botterall Hall Rm. A309, Kingston, Ontario K7L-3N6, Canada
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Kim B, Oh S, van Golen CM, Feldman EL. Differential regulation of insulin receptor substrate-1 degradation during mannitol and okadaic acid induced apoptosis in human neuroblastoma cells. Cell Signal 2004; 17:769-75. [PMID: 15722201 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2004.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2004] [Revised: 10/29/2004] [Accepted: 11/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Insulin receptor substrate (IRS) proteins are major docking molecules for the type I insulin like growth factor (IGF) receptor (IGF-IR) and mediate their effects on downstream signaling molecules. In this report, we investigated IRS-1 regulation during apoptosis in human neuroblastoma SH-EP cells. Treatment of SH-EP cells with mannitol or okadaic acid (OA) induces apoptosis with the typical characteristics of anoikis. Mannitol treatment results in IRS-1 degradation with concomitant appearance of smaller fragments, likely representing caspase cleavage products. In contrast OA-induced IRS-1 degradation is accompanied by a mobility shift in IRS-1, suggesting IRS-1 serine/threonine phosphorylation. Mannitol-induced, but not OA-induced, degradation is blocked by IGF-I. Pretreatment of the cells with caspase or proteasome inhibitors also partially blocks mannitol-induced IRS-1 degradation. These results suggest two independent pathways are involved in IRS-1 degradation; one pathway is dependent on caspase activation and is blocked by IGF-I, while a second pathway is caspase-independent and IGF-I-insensitive.
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- Bhumsoo Kim
- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, 4414 Kresge III, 200 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0588, United States
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The calpain system originally comprised three molecules: two Ca2+-dependent proteases, mu-calpain and m-calpain, and a third polypeptide, calpastatin, whose only known function is to inhibit the two calpains. Both mu- and m-calpain are heterodimers containing an identical 28-kDa subunit and an 80-kDa subunit that shares 55-65% sequence homology between the two proteases. The crystallographic structure of m-calpain reveals six "domains" in the 80-kDa subunit: 1). a 19-amino acid NH2-terminal sequence; 2). and 3). two domains that constitute the active site, IIa and IIb; 4). domain III; 5). an 18-amino acid extended sequence linking domain III to domain IV; and 6). domain IV, which resembles the penta EF-hand family of polypeptides. The single calpastatin gene can produce eight or more calpastatin polypeptides ranging from 17 to 85 kDa by use of different promoters and alternative splicing events. The physiological significance of these different calpastatins is unclear, although all bind to three different places on the calpain molecule; binding to at least two of the sites is Ca2+ dependent. Since 1989, cDNA cloning has identified 12 additional mRNAs in mammals that encode polypeptides homologous to domains IIa and IIb of the 80-kDa subunit of mu- and m-calpain, and calpain-like mRNAs have been identified in other organisms. The molecules encoded by these mRNAs have not been isolated, so little is known about their properties. How calpain activity is regulated in cells is still unclear, but the calpains ostensibly participate in a variety of cellular processes including remodeling of cytoskeletal/membrane attachments, different signal transduction pathways, and apoptosis. Deregulated calpain activity following loss of Ca2+ homeostasis results in tissue damage in response to events such as myocardial infarcts, stroke, and brain trauma.
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- Darrell E Goll
- Muscle Biology Group, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
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Nakayama J, Yoshizawa T, Yamamoto N, Arinami T. Mutation analysis of the calpastatin gene (CAST) in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Neurosci Lett 2002; 320:77-80. [PMID: 11849768 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00061-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The calpains, a family of calcium-dependent cysteine proteinases, and calpastatin, their endogenous inhibitor protein, are involved in the proteolysis of amyloid precursor protein, which is thought to be abnormal in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Specific inhibitors of calpains attenuate amyloid beta peptide-induced neuronal death. We hypothesized that some AD patients have functionally deficient mutation(s) of the CAST gene encoding calpastatin, and we screened 40 Japanese patients with AD for mutations in the coding region of CAST. Nine polymorphisms, -82A/G, IVS7-96A/G, 669A/G, 1223C/G (Ser408Cys), IVS20-10C/T, IVS21-65G/A, IVS22+31T/C, IVS24+38Ins/DelA, and IVS25-32A/G, were identified. The 669A allele causes skipping of exon 11, leading to the loss of 13 residues. Comparisons between 101 patients and 90 controls revealed no significant association between CAST polymorphisms and risk for AD, indicating that genomic variations of CAST are not likely to be substantially involved in the etiology of AD.
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- Junko Nakayama
- Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken 305-8575, Japan
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Kolb TM, Chang SH, Davis MA. Biochemical and morphological events during okadaic acid-induced apoptosis of Tsc2-null ERC-18 cell line. Toxicol Pathol 2002; 30:235-46. [PMID: 11950167 DOI: 10.1080/019262302753559579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Several tumor suppressor genes have been shown to regulate cellular susceptibility to proliferation or apoptotic cell death. An essential first step in studies with the long-range goal of determining the effect of a tumor suppressor gene on cellular susceptibility to apoptosis is careful characterization of the cell's response to an apoptotic stimulus. The goals of this study were to characterize the apoptotic response of a tuberous sclerosis complex-2 (Tsc2) tumor suppressor gene-null cell line, to establish valid biochemical events that can be used as apoptosis markers, and to determine how these events correlate with apoptosis-specific morphologic changes. For characterization of apoptosis, we treated Tsc2-null renal epithelial tumor cells (ERC-18) with okadaic acid (OKA, 0.1-0.25 microM), and measured the biochemical and morphologic events during the apoptotic response. Electron microscopic and immunocytochemical evaluation showed an early loss of microvilli and a loss of vinculin and talin staining from focal adhesions within 1 hour. During the first 2 hours of treatment with 0.25 microM OKA, ERC-18 cells rounded and approximately 50% detached from the culture vessel with minimal membrane bleb formation. Phosphatidylserine externalization, chromatin margination and fragmentation, cytochrome C release, and caspase-3 and -7 cleavage were evident at 6 hours. Maximal membrane bleb formation occurred between 6 and 10 hours. Cells progressed to secondary oncotic necrosis between 10 and 24 hours of OKA treatment. Almost all cells had an oncotic phenotype after 24 hours, and 17.5% lost cell membrane integrity. A small subpopulation (< or = 5%) of OKA-treated cells underwent primary oncotic necrosis within 6 hours. Interestingly, the caspase-3 and -7 inhibitor Z-DEVD-FMK did not inhibit or delay OKA-induced apoptosis in these cells. Our results suggest a complex apoptotic model involving 2 or more potentially parallel death pathways. Although caspase-3 and -7 cleavage occurs during apoptosis in this model, this cleavage may not independently regulate cell death in ERC-18 cells. Therefore, measurement of apoptosis in this model requires analysis of both biochemical and morphologic events.
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- Todd M Kolb
- Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
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Averna M, de Tullio R, Passalacqua M, Salamino F, Pontremoli S, Melloni E. Changes in intracellular calpastatin localization are mediated by reversible phosphorylation. Biochem J 2001; 354:25-30. [PMID: 11171075 PMCID: PMC1221624 DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3540025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We have previously reported that, in neuroblastoma LAN-5 cells, calpastatin is in an aggregated state, close to the cell nucleus [de Tullio, Passalacqua, Averna, Salamino, Melloni and Pontremoli (1999) Biochem. J. 343, 467-472]. In the present paper, we demonstrate that aggregated calpastatin is predominantly in a phosphorylated state. An increase in intracellular free [Ca2+] induces both dephosphorylation of calpastatin, through the action of a phosphoprotein phosphatase, and its redistribution as a soluble inhibitor species. cAMP, but not PMA-induced phosphorylation, reverses calpastatin distribution favouring its aggregation. This intracellular reversible mechanism, regulating the level of cytosolic calpastatin, could be considered a strategy through which calpain can escape calpastatin inhibition, especially during earlier steps of its activation process.
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- M Averna
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Biochemistry Section, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV 1, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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Vanderklish PW, Bahr BA. The pathogenic activation of calpain: a marker and mediator of cellular toxicity and disease states. Int J Exp Pathol 2000; 81:323-39. [PMID: 11168679 PMCID: PMC2517738 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2000.00169.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2000] [Accepted: 08/14/2000] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Over-activation of calpain, a ubiquitous calcium-sensitive protease, has been linked to a variety of degenerative conditions in the brain and several other tissues. Dozens of substrates for calpain have been identified and several of these have been used to measure activation of the protease in the context of experimentally induced and naturally occurring pathologies. Calpain-mediated cleavage of the cytoskeletal protein spectrin, in particular, results in a set of large breakdown products (BDPs) that are unique in that they are unusually stable. Over the last 15 years, measurements of BDPs in experimental models of stroke-type excitotoxicity, hypoxia/ischemia, vasospasm, epilepsy, toxin exposure, brain injury, kidney malfunction, and genetic defects, have established that calpain activation is an early and causal event in the degeneration that ensues from acute, definable insults. The BDPs also have been found to increase with normal ageing and in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and the calpain activity may be involved in related apoptotic processes in conjunction with the caspase family of proteases. Thus, it has become increasingly clear that regardless of the mode of disturbance in calcium homeostasis or the cell type involved, calpain is critical to the development of pathology and therefore a distinct and powerful therapeutic target. The recent development of antibodies that recognize the site at which spectrin is cleaved has greatly facilitated the temporal and spatial resolution of calpain activation in situ. Accordingly, sensitive spectrin breakdown assays now are utilized to identify potential toxic side-effects of compounds and to develop calpain inhibitors for a wide range of indications including stroke, cerebral vasospasm, and kidney failure.
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- P W Vanderklish
- Department of Neurobiology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
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De Tullio R, Averna M, Salamino F, Pontremoli S, Melloni E. Differential degradation of calpastatin by mu- and m-calpain in Ca(2+)-enriched human neuroblastoma LAN-5 cells. FEBS Lett 2000; 475:17-21. [PMID: 10854849 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01613-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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In neuroblastoma LAN-5 cells during calpain activation, in addition to the two expressed 70 kDa and 30 kDa calpastatin forms, other inhibitory species are produced, having molecular masses of 50 kDa and 15 kDa. At longer times of incubation, both native and new calpastatin species disappear. The formation of these new calpastatins as well as the decrease in intracellular total calpastatin activity are mediated by calpain itself, as indicated by the effect of the synthetic calpain inhibitor I, which prevents both degradative processes. Analysis of the calcium concentrations required for the two processes indicates that the first conservative proteolytic event is mediated by micro-calpain, whereas the second one is preferentially carried out by m-calpain. The appearance of the 15 kDa form, containing only the calpastatin repetitive inhibitory domain and identified also in red cells of hypertensive rats as the major inhibitor form, can be considered a marker of intracellular calpain activation, and it can be used for the monitoring of the involvement of calpain in pathological situations.
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- R De Tullio
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Biochemistry Section, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV, 1-16132, Genoa, Italy
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