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Razali NSC, Lam KW, Rajab NF, Jamal ARA, Kamaludin NF, Chan KM. Curcumin piperidone derivatives induce caspase-dependent apoptosis and suppress miRNA-21 expression in LN-18 human glioblastoma cells. Genes Environ 2024; 46:4. [PMID: 38303058 PMCID: PMC10832295 DOI: 10.1186/s41021-023-00297-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Previously, we have reported on the two curcuminoid analogues with piperidone derivatives, namely FLDP-5 and FLDP-8 have more potent anti-proliferative and anti-migration effects than curcumin. In this study, we further investigated the mode of cell death and the mechanism involved in the cell death process induced by these analogues on human glioblastoma LN-18 cells. RESULTS The FLDP-5 and FLDP-8 curcuminoid analogues induced LN-18 cell death through apoptosis in a concentration-dependent manner following 24 h of treatment. These analogues induced apoptosis in LN-18 cells through significant loss of mitochondrial mass and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) as early as 1-hour of treatment. Interestingly, N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC) pretreatment did not abolish the apoptosis induced by these analogues, further confirming the cell death process is independent of ROS. However, the apoptosis induced by the analogues is caspases-dependent, whereby pan-caspase pretreatment inhibited the curcuminoid analogues-induced apoptosis. The apoptotic cell death progressed with the activation of both caspase-8 and caspase-9, which eventually led to the activation of caspase-3, as confirmed by immunoblotting. Moreover, the existing over-expression of miRNA-21 in LN-18 cells was suppressed following treatment with both analogues, which suggested the down-regulation of the miRNA-21 facilitates the cell death process. CONCLUSION The FLDP-5 and FLDP-8 curcuminoid analogues downregulate the miRNA-21 expression and induce extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic pathways in LN-18 cells.
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- Nur Syahirah Che Razali
- Center for Toxicology and Health Risk Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 50300, Malaysia
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- Centre for Drug and Herbal Development, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 50300, Malaysia
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- Center for Health Ageing and Wellness Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 50300, Malaysia
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- UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, UKM Medical Centre, Cheras, 56000, Malaysia
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- Center for Toxicology and Health Risk Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 50300, Malaysia
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- Center for Toxicology and Health Risk Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 50300, Malaysia.
- Product Stewardship and Toxicology, Group Health, Safety and Environment (GHSE), Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Kuala Lumpur, 50088, Malaysia.
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Grosfeld EV, Bidiuk VA, Mitkevich OV, Ghazy ESMO, Kushnirov VV, Alexandrov AI. A Systematic Survey of Characteristic Features of Yeast Cell Death Triggered by External Factors. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:886. [PMID: 34829175 PMCID: PMC8626022 DOI: 10.3390/jof7110886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cell death in response to distinct stimuli can manifest different morphological traits. It also depends on various cell death signaling pathways, extensively characterized in higher eukaryotes but less so in microorganisms. The study of cell death in yeast, and specifically Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can potentially be productive for understanding cell death, since numerous killing stimuli have been characterized for this organism. Here, we systematized the literature on external treatments that kill yeast, and which contains at least minimal data on cell death mechanisms. Data from 707 papers from the 7000 obtained using keyword searches were used to create a reference table for filtering types of cell death according to commonly assayed parameters. This table provides a resource for orientation within the literature; however, it also highlights that the common view of similarity between non-necrotic death in yeast and apoptosis in mammals has not provided sufficient progress to create a clear classification of cell death types. Differences in experimental setups also prevent direct comparison between different stimuli. Thus, side-by-side comparisons of various cell death-inducing stimuli under comparable conditions using existing and novel markers that can differentiate between types of cell death seem like a promising direction for future studies.
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- Erika V. Grosfeld
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy per, Dolgoprudny, 141700 Moscow, Russia;
- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
- Institute of Biochemical Technology and Nanotechnology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, 117198 Moscow, Russia
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Tanta 31111, Egypt
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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Gowsalya R, Ravi C, Nachiappan V. Human OVCA2 and its homolog FSH3-induced apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 2021; 67:631-640. [PMID: 33715035 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-021-01171-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Mammalian ovarian tumor suppressor candidate 2 (OVCA2) gene belongs to the family of serine hydrolase (FSH). This study aimed to elucidate the functional similarities of OVCA2 with its yeast homolog genes (FSH1, FSH2, and FSH3) regarding apoptosis. We found that the expression of OVCA2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), decreased cell growth, disturbed mitochondrial morphology, reduced membrane potential, increased chromatin condensation, and externalization of phosphatidylserine (PS) (annexin V/propidium iodide staining) indicating induced apoptotic cell death in yeast. We also showed that complementation of OVCA2 in fsh3Δ cells reduced cell growth and increased the apoptotic phenotypes. Collectively, our results suggest that complementation of human OVCA2 in fsh3Δ cells induced apoptosis in S. cerevisiae.
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- Ramachandran Gowsalya
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirappalli, 620024, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirappalli, 620024, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirappalli, 620024, India.
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A lipophilic cation protects crops against fungal pathogens by multiple modes of action. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1608. [PMID: 32231209 PMCID: PMC7105494 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14949-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The emerging resistance of crop pathogens to fungicides poses a challenge to food security and compels discovery of new antifungal compounds. Here, we show that mono-alkyl lipophilic cations (MALCs) inhibit oxidative phosphorylation by affecting NADH oxidation in the plant pathogens Zymoseptoria tritici, Ustilago maydis and Magnaporthe oryzae. One of these MALCs, consisting of a dimethylsulfonium moiety and a long alkyl chain (C18-SMe2+), also induces production of reactive oxygen species at the level of respiratory complex I, thus triggering fungal apoptosis. In addition, C18-SMe2+ activates innate plant defense. This multiple activity effectively protects cereals against Septoria tritici blotch and rice blast disease. C18-SMe2+ has low toxicity in Daphnia magna, and is not mutagenic or phytotoxic. Thus, MALCs hold potential as effective and non-toxic crop fungicides. New fungicides are needed due to emerging resistance shown by crop pathogens. Here, the authors show that a mono-alkyl lipophilic cation protects plants from fungal pathogens by inhibiting fungal mitochondrial respiration, inducing production of reactive oxygen species, triggering fungal apoptosis, and activating innate plant defense.
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Zimmermann A, Tadic J, Kainz K, Hofer SJ, Bauer MA, Carmona-Gutierrez D, Madeo F. Transcriptional and epigenetic control of regulated cell death in yeast. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 352:55-82. [PMID: 32334817 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ircmb.2019.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Unicellular organisms like yeast can undergo controlled demise in a manner that is partly reminiscent of mammalian cell death. This is true at the levels of both mechanistic and functional conservation. Yeast offers the combination of unparalleled genetic amenability and a comparatively simple biology to understand both the regulation and evolution of cell death. In this minireview, we address the capacity of the nucleus as a regulatory hub during yeast regulated cell death (RCD), which is becoming an increasingly central question in yeast RCD research. In particular, we explore and critically discuss the available data on stressors and signals that specifically impinge on the nucleus. Moreover, we also analyze the current knowledge on nuclear factors as well as on transcriptional control and epigenetic events that orchestrate yeast RCD. Altogether we conclude that the functional significance of the nucleus for yeast RCD in undisputable, but that further exploration beyond correlative work is necessary to disentangle the role of nuclear events in the regulatory network.
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- Andreas Zimmermann
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Division of Immunology and Pathophysiology, Otto Loewi Research Center, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; BioTechMed Graz, Graz, Austria.
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Ramos-Pérez C, Dominska M, Anaissi-Afonso L, Cazorla-Rivero S, Quevedo O, Lorenzo-Castrillejo I, Petes TD, Machín F. Cytological and genetic consequences for the progeny of a mitotic catastrophe provoked by Topoisomerase II deficiency. Aging (Albany NY) 2019; 11:11686-11721. [PMID: 31812950 PMCID: PMC6932922 DOI: 10.18632/aging.102573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Topoisomerase II (Top2) removes topological linkages between replicated chromosomes. Top2 inhibition leads to mitotic catastrophe (MC) when cells unsuccessfully try to split their genetic material between the two daughter cells. Herein, we have characterized the fate of these daughter cells in the budding yeast. Clonogenic and microcolony experiments, in combination with vital and apoptotic stains, showed that 75% of daughter cells become senescent in the short term; they are unable to divide but remain alive. Decline in cell vitality then occurred, yet slowly, uncoordinatedly when comparing pairs of daughters, and independently of the cell death mediator Mca1/Yca1. Furthermore, we showed that senescence can be modulated by ploidy, suggesting that gross chromosome imbalances during segregation may account for this phenotype. Indeed, we found that diploid long-term survivors of the MC are prone to genomic imbalances such as trisomies, uniparental disomies and terminal loss of heterozygosity (LOH), the latter affecting the longest chromosome arms.
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- Cristina Ramos-Pérez
- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.,Present address: BenchSci Analytics Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Present address: Genomic Integrity Unit, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Instituto de Tecnologías Biomédicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.,Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Reactive oxygen species-independent apoptotic pathway by gold nanoparticles in Candida albicans. Microbiol Res 2018; 207:33-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2017.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2017] [Revised: 10/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Apoptosis-inducing factor (Aif1) mediates anacardic acid-induced apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Apoptosis 2016; 22:463-474. [DOI: 10.1007/s10495-016-1330-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Zyrina AN, Sorokin MI, Sokolov SS, Knorre DA, Severin FF. Mitochondrial retrograde signaling inhibits the survival during prolong S/G2 arrest in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Oncotarget 2016; 6:44084-94. [PMID: 26624981 PMCID: PMC4792543 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Cell senescence is dependent on the arrest in cell cycle. Here we studied the role of mitochondrial retrograde response signaling in yeast cell survival under a prolonged arrest. We have found that, unlike G1, long-term arrest in mitosis or S phase results in a loss of colony-forming abilities. Consistent with previous observations, loss of mitochondrial DNA significantly increased the survival of arrested cells. We found that this was because the loss increases the duration of G1 phase. Unexpectedly, retrograde signaling, which is typically triggered by a variety of mitochondrial dysfunctions, was found to be a negative regulator of the survival after the release from S-phase arrest induced by the telomere replication defect. Deletion of retrograde response genes decreased the arrest-induced death in such cells, whereas deletion of negative regulator of retrograde signaling MKS1 had the opposite effect. We provide evidence that these effects are due to alleviation of the strength of the S-phase arrest.
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- Anna N Zyrina
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Yun J, Lee DG. A novel fungal killing mechanism of propionic acid. FEMS Yeast Res 2016; 16:fow089. [PMID: 27707757 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fow089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Propionic acid (PPA) is a weak acid that has been used in food products as a preservative because of its inhibitory effect on microorganisms. In the present study, we investigated the PPA fungal killing mechanism, which showed apoptotic features. First, reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and metacaspase activation were detected by 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate and CaspACE FITC-VAD-FMK staining, respectively. Increased fluorescence intensities were observed following exposure to PPA, indicating that PPA produced an oxidative environment through the generation of ROS and activation of metacaspase, which can promote apoptosis signaling. We also examined phosphatidylserine externalization (an early apoptosis marker) and DNA and nuclear fragmentation (late apoptosis markers) after exposure to PPA. Based on the results, we determined that PPA exerts its antifungal effect by inducing apoptotic cell death. Moreover, three additional mitochondrial experiments showed mitochondrial membrane depolarization, calcium accumulation and cytochrome c release after cells were exposed to PPA, indicating that the PPA-induced apoptosis pathway is mediated by mitochondria. In conclusion, PPA induces fungal cell death through mitochondria-mediated apoptosis. Results of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of the preservative effects of PPA.
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- JiEun Yun
- School of Life Sciences, BK 21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, BK 21 Plus KNU Creative BioResearch Group, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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Busti S, Mapelli V, Tripodi F, Sanvito R, Magni F, Coccetti P, Rocchetti M, Nielsen J, Alberghina L, Vanoni M. Respiratory metabolism and calorie restriction relieve persistent endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by calcium shortage in yeast. Sci Rep 2016; 6:27942. [PMID: 27305947 PMCID: PMC4910072 DOI: 10.1038/srep27942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Calcium homeostasis is crucial to eukaryotic cell survival. By acting as an enzyme cofactor and a second messenger in several signal transduction pathways, the calcium ion controls many essential biological processes. Inside the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) calcium concentration is carefully regulated to safeguard the correct folding and processing of secretory proteins. By using the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae we show that calcium shortage leads to a slowdown of cell growth and metabolism. Accumulation of unfolded proteins within the calcium-depleted lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER stress) triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR) and generates a state of oxidative stress that decreases cell viability. These effects are severe during growth on rapidly fermentable carbon sources and can be mitigated by decreasing the protein synthesis rate or by inducing cellular respiration. Calcium homeostasis, protein biosynthesis and the unfolded protein response are tightly intertwined and the consequences of facing calcium starvation are determined by whether cellular energy production is balanced with demands for anabolic functions. Our findings confirm that the connections linking disturbance of ER calcium equilibrium to ER stress and UPR signaling are evolutionary conserved and highlight the crucial role of metabolism in modulating the effects induced by calcium shortage.
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- Stefano Busti
- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- SYSBIO, Centre of Systems Biology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Industrial Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- SYSBIO, Centre of Systems Biology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- SYSBIO, Centre of Systems Biology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- SYSBIO, Centre of Systems Biology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- SYSBIO, Centre of Systems Biology, Milan, Italy
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Johansson M, Chen X, Milanova S, Santos C, Petranovic D. PUFA-induced cell death is mediated by Yca1p-dependent and -independent pathways, and is reduced by vitamin C in yeast. FEMS Yeast Res 2016; 16:fow007. [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fow007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Clerodane type diterpene as a novel antifungal agent from Polyalthia longifolia var. pendula. Eur J Med Chem 2015; 94:1-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2015.02.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2014] [Revised: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Chin C, Donaghey F, Helming K, McCarthy M, Rogers S, Austriaco N. Deletion of AIF1 but not of YCA1/MCA1 protects Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans cells from caspofungin-induced programmed cell death. MICROBIAL CELL 2014; 1:58-63. [PMID: 28357223 PMCID: PMC5348969 DOI: 10.15698/mic2014.01.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Caspofungin was the first member of a new class of antifungals called echinocandins to be approved by a drug regulatory authority. Like the other echinocandins, caspofungin blocks the synthesis of β(1,3)-D-glucan of the fungal cell wall by inhibiting the enzyme, β(1,3)-D-glucan synthase. Loss of β(1,3)-D-glucan leads to osmotic instability and cell death. However, the precise mechanism of cell death associated with the cytotoxicity of caspofungin was unclear. We now provide evidence that Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells cultured in media containing caspofungin manifest the classical hallmarks of programmed cell death (PCD) in yeast, including the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), the fragmentation of mitochondria, and the production of DNA strand breaks. Our data also suggests that deleting AIF1 but not YCA1/MCA1 protects S. cerevisiae and Candida albicans from caspofungin-induced cell death. This is not only the first time that AIF1 has been specifically tied to cell death in Candida but also the first time that caspofungin resistance has been linked to the cell death machinery in yeast.
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- Christopher Chin
- Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A. ; Current address: University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, 55 Lake Ave. N., Worcester, MA 01655, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A. ; Current address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A
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Reactive oxygen species-inducing antifungal agents and their activity against fungal biofilms. Future Med Chem 2014; 6:77-90. [DOI: 10.4155/fmc.13.189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Invasive fungal infections are associated with very high mortality rates ranging from 20–90% for opportunistic fungal pathogens such as Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans and Aspergillus fumigatus. Fungal resistance to antimycotic treatment can be genotypic (due to resistant strains) as well as phenotypic (due to more resistant fungal lifestyles, such as biofilms). With regard to the latter, biofilms are considered to be critical in the development of invasive fungal infections. However, there are only very few antimycotics, such as miconazole (azoles), echinocandins and liposomal formulations of amphotericin B (polyenes), which are also effective against fungal biofilms. Interestingly, these antimycotics all induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) in fungal (biofilm) cells. This review provides an overview of the different classes of antimycotics and novel antifungal compounds that induce ROS in fungal planktonic and biofilm cells. Moreover, different strategies to further enhance the antibiofilm activity of such ROS-inducing antimycotics will be discussed.
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Crambescidin-816 acts as a fungicidal with more potency than crambescidin-800 and -830, inducing cell cycle arrest, increased cell size and apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mar Drugs 2013; 11:4419-34. [PMID: 24217285 PMCID: PMC3853736 DOI: 10.3390/md11114419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2013] [Revised: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/29/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In this paper, we show the effect of crambescidin-816, -800, and -830 on Saccharomyces cerevisiae viability. We determined that, of the three molecules tested, crambescidin-816 was the most potent. Based on this result, we continued by determining the effect of crambescidin-816 on the cell cycle of this yeast. The compound induced cell cycle arrest in G2/M followed by an increase in cell DNA content and size. When the type of cell death was analyzed, we observed that crambescidin-816 induced apoptosis. The antifungal effect indicates that crambescidins, and mostly crambescidin-816, could serve as a lead compound to fight fungal infections.
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Litwin I, Bocer T, Dziadkowiec D, Wysocki R. Oxidative stress and replication-independent DNA breakage induced by arsenic in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003640. [PMID: 23935510 PMCID: PMC3723488 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2012] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Arsenic is a well-established human carcinogen of poorly understood mechanism of genotoxicity. It is generally accepted that arsenic acts indirectly by generating oxidative DNA damage that can be converted to replication-dependent DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), as well as by interfering with DNA repair pathways and DNA methylation. Here we show that in budding yeast arsenic also causes replication and transcription-independent DSBs in all phases of the cell cycle, suggesting a direct genotoxic mode of arsenic action. This is accompanied by DNA damage checkpoint activation resulting in cell cycle delays in S and G2/M phases in wild type cells. In G1 phase, arsenic activates DNA damage response only in the absence of the Yku70-Yku80 complex which normally binds to DNA ends and inhibits resection of DSBs. This strongly indicates that DSBs are produced by arsenic in G1 but DNA ends are protected by Yku70-Yku80 and thus invisible for the checkpoint response. Arsenic-induced DSBs are processed by homologous recombination (HR), as shown by Rfa1 and Rad52 nuclear foci formation and requirement of HR proteins for cell survival during arsenic exposure. We show further that arsenic greatly sensitizes yeast to phleomycin as simultaneous treatment results in profound accumulation of DSBs. Importantly, we observed a similar response in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, suggesting that the mechanisms of As(III) genotoxicity may be conserved in other organisms.
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- Ireneusz Litwin
- Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Applied Biotechnology and Basic Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Kolbuszowa, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
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Austriaco N. Endoplasmic reticulum involvement in yeast cell death. Front Oncol 2012; 2:87. [PMID: 22876361 PMCID: PMC3410633 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2012] [Accepted: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Yeast cells undergo programed cell death (PCD) with characteristic markers associated with apoptosis in mammalian cells including chromatin breakage, nuclear fragmentation, reactive oxygen species generation, and metacaspase activation. Though significant research has focused on mitochondrial involvement in this phenomenon, more recent work with both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe has also implicated the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in yeast PCD. This minireview provides an overview of ER stress-associated cell death (ER-SAD) in yeast. It begins with a description of ER structure and function in yeast before moving to a discussion of ER-SAD in both mammalian and yeast cells. Three examples of yeast cell death associated with the ER will be highlighted here including inositol starvation, lipid toxicity, and the inhibition of N-glycosylation. It closes by suggesting ways to further examine the involvement of the ER in yeast cell death.
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Farrugia G, Balzan R. Oxidative stress and programmed cell death in yeast. Front Oncol 2012; 2:64. [PMID: 22737670 PMCID: PMC3380282 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Accepted: 06/02/2012] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Yeasts, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have long served as useful models for the study of oxidative stress, an event associated with cell death and severe human pathologies. This review will discuss oxidative stress in yeast, in terms of sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS), their molecular targets, and the metabolic responses elicited by cellular ROS accumulation. Responses of yeast to accumulated ROS include upregulation of antioxidants mediated by complex transcriptional changes, activation of pro-survival pathways such as mitophagy, and programmed cell death (PCD) which, apart from apoptosis, includes pathways such as autophagy and necrosis, a form of cell death long considered accidental and uncoordinated. The role of ROS in yeast aging will also be discussed.
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- Gianluca Farrugia
- Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of MaltaMsida, Malta
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- Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of MaltaMsida, Malta
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Teng X, Cheng WC, Qi B, Yu TX, Ramachandran K, Boersma MD, Hattier T, Lehmann PV, Pineda FJ, Hardwick JM. Gene-dependent cell death in yeast. Cell Death Dis 2011; 2:e188. [PMID: 21814286 PMCID: PMC3181418 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2011.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Caspase-dependent apoptotic cell death has been extensively studied in cultured cells and during embryonic development, but the existence of analogous molecular pathways in single-cell species is uncertain. This has reduced enthusiasm for applying the advanced genetic tools available for yeast to study cell death regulation. However, partial characterization in mammals of additional genetically encoded cell death mechanisms, which lead to a range of dying cell morphologies and necrosis, suggests potential applications for yeast genetics. In this light, we revisited the topic of gene-dependent cell death in yeast to determine the prevalence of yeast genes with the capacity to contribute to cell-autonomous death. We developed a rigorous strategy by allowing sufficient time for gene-dependent events to occur, but insufficient time to evolve new populations, and applied this strategy to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene knockout collection. Unlike sudden heat shock, a ramped heat stimulus delivered over several minutes with a thermocycler, coupled with assessment of viability by automated counting of microscopic colonies revealed highly reproducible gene-specific survival phenotypes, which typically persist under alternative conditions. Unexpectedly, we identified over 800 yeast knockout strains that exhibit significantly increased survival following insult, implying that these genes can contribute to cell death. Although these death mechanisms are yet uncharacterized, this study facilitates further exploration.
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- X Teng
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Yu S, Zhang XE, Chen G, Liu W. Compromised cellular responses to DNA damage accelerate chronological aging by incurring cell wall fragility in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Rep 2011; 39:3573-83. [DOI: 10.1007/s11033-011-1131-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Accepted: 06/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Walter D, Matter A, Fahrenkrog B. Bre1p-mediated histone H2B ubiquitylation regulates apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Cell Sci 2010; 123:1931-9. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.065938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BRE1 encodes an E3 ubiquitin protein ligase that is required for the ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 123 (K123). Ubiquitylation of this histone residue is involved in a variety of cellular processes including gene activation and gene silencing. Abolishing histone H2B ubiquitylation also confers X-ray sensitivity and abrogates checkpoint activation after DNA damage. Here we show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Bre1p exhibits anti-apoptotic activity in yeast and that this is linked to histone H2B ubiquitylation. We found that enhanced levels of Bre1p protect from hydrogen-peroxide-induced cell death, whereas deletion of BRE1 enhances cell death. Moreover, cells lacking Bre1p show reduced lifespan during chronological ageing, a physiological apoptotic condition in yeast. Importantly, the resistance against apoptosis is conferred by histone H2B ubiquitylation mediated by the E3 ligase activity of Bre1p. Furthermore, we found that the death of Δbre1 cells depends on the yeast caspase Yca1p, because Δbre1 cells exhibit increased caspase activity when compared with wild-type cells, and deletion of YCA1 leads to reduced apoptosis sensitivity of cells lacking Bre1p.
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- David Walter
- M. E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- M. E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- M. E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Endo K, Mizuguchi M, Harata A, Itoh G, Tanaka K. Nocodazole induces mitotic cell death with apoptotic-like features inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Lett 2010; 584:2387-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2010] [Revised: 03/10/2010] [Accepted: 04/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cytolethal distending toxin from Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans induces DNA damage, S/G2 cell cycle arrest, and caspase- independent death in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae model. Infect Immun 2009; 78:783-92. [PMID: 19995894 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00857-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) is a bacterial toxin that induces G(2)/M cell cycle arrest, cell distension, and/or apoptosis in mammalian cells. It is produced by several Gram-negative species and may contribute to their pathogenicity. The catalytic subunit CdtB has homology with DNase I and may act as a genotoxin. However, the mechanism by which CdtB leads to cell death is not yet clearly understood. Here, we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model to study the molecular pathways involved in the function of CdtB from Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, a cause of aggressive periodontitis. We show that A. actinomycetemcomitans CdtB (AaCdtB) expression induces S/G(2) arrest and death in a DNase-catalytic residue and nuclear localization-dependent manner in haploid yeasts. Yeast strains defective in homologous recombination (HR) repair, but not other DNA repair pathways, are hypersensitive to AaCdtB, suggesting that HR is required for survival upon CdtB expression. In addition, yeast does not harbor the substrate for the other activity proposed for CdtB function, which is phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate phosphatase. Thus, these results suggest that direct DNA-damaging activity alone is sufficient for CdtB toxicity. To investigate how CdtB induces cell death, we examined the effect of CdtB in yeast strains with mutations in apoptotic regulators. Our results suggest that yeast death occurs independently of the yeast metacaspase gene YCA1 and the apoptosis-inducing factor AIF1 but is partially dependent on histone H2B serine 10 phosphorylation. Therefore, we report here the evidence that AaCdtB causes DNA damage that leads to nonapoptotic death in yeast and the first mutation that confers resistance to CdtB.
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Al-Dhaheri RS, Douglas LJ. Apoptosis in Candida biofilms exposed to amphotericin B. J Med Microbiol 2009; 59:149-157. [PMID: 19892857 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.015784-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Candida biofilms are resistant to a range of antifungal agents in current clinical use. The basis of this drug resistance is not clear, but in some cases it could be due to the presence of a small number of drug-tolerant or persister cells. In this study, specific staining methods were used to investigate the existence of persisters and apoptosis in Candida biofilms subjected to different concentrations of amphotericin B. Fluorescein diacetate staining revealed the presence of persisters in biofilms of one of two strains of Candida albicans tested, and in biofilms of Candida krusei and Candida parapsilosis. Caspase activity, indicative of apoptosis, was detected with SR-FLICA and (aspartyl)(2)-rhodamine 110 fluorochrome-based staining reagents in all of these biofilms. The general inhibitor of mammalian caspases, Z-VAD-FMK, when used at a low concentration (2.5 microM), increased the viability of drug-treated biofilms up to 11.5-fold (P <0.001 %). Seven specific caspase inhibitors had different effects on C. albicans biofilm viability, but inhibitors of caspases-1, -9, -5, -3 and -2 all significantly increased cell survival (40-fold, 8-fold, 3.5-fold, 1.9-fold and 1.7-fold, respectively). However, histone deacetylase (HDA) inhibitors enhanced the activity of amphotericin B for biofilms of all three Candida species. Sodium butyrate and sodium valproate, for example, when added concurrently with amphotericin B, completely eliminated biofilm populations of C. albicans. Overall, our results demonstrate an apoptotic process in amphotericin-treated biofilms of three Candida species. They also indicate that HDA inhibitors can enhance the action of the drug and in some cases even eradicate persister subpopulations, suggesting that histone acetylation might activate apoptosis in these cells.
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- Rawya S Al-Dhaheri
- Division of Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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Yang C, Gong W, Lu J, Zhu X, Qi Q. Antifungal drug susceptibility of oral Candida albicans isolates may be associated with apoptotic responses to Amphotericin B. J Oral Pathol Med 2009; 39:182-7. [PMID: 19656268 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2009.00811.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Candida albicans is the important opportunistic fungal pathogens which can cause oral Candidiasis and even more seriously systemic infection. Apoptosis of C. albicans induced by environmental factor such as weak acid and antifungal drugs were studied recently. Illustrating the phenomenon of apoptosis in C. albicans may help us to discover new antifungal therapy by activating the fungal cells to suicide. METHODS Two oral C. albians clinical isolates which isolated respectively from healthy host [Strain 23C: minimal inhibition concentration (MIC) is 0.125 microg/ml for Amphotericin B (AmB)] and advanced cancer patient (Strain 28A: MIC is 2 microg/ml for AmB), were induced by 1 microg/ml AmB in vitro for 200 min, and then studied the apoptosis markers using terminal deoxynucletidyltransferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) (shown by diaminobenzidine and fluorescent isothiocyanate), and the ultrastructure of cell nuclear using transmission electron microscope (TEM), quantitative analysis using flow cytometry for the rapid exposure of phosphatidylserine at the outer membrane and propodium iodide (PI) double staining. C. albicans conference strain YEM30 was used as the control strain. RESULTS With TUNEL assay and TEM, we detected the typical characteristics of apoptosis. Strain 23C (with low MIC) showed significantly higher percentage of apoptosis (19.92%) compared with Strain 28A (with high MIC) which was isolated from the cancer patient (7.29%) (P < 0.01). In addition, 7.3% of early apoptosis cells of Strain 23C can form colonies on the plates, while 15% for Strain 28A. None of the PI+ cells can form colony. CONCLUSIONS Apoptosis of oral C. albicans isolates can be induced by AmB. The feature of antifungal drug susceptibility of the oral C. albicans clinical isolates may associate with the response of apoptosis inducing.
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- Chengzhe Yang
- Department of Oral Medicine School of Stomatology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Zhang L, Leibowitz MJ, Zhang Y. Antisense oligonucleotides effectively inhibit the co-transcriptional splicing of a Candida group I intron in vitro and in vivo: Implications for antifungal therapeutics. FEBS Lett 2009; 583:734-8. [PMID: 19185575 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.01.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2008] [Revised: 01/02/2009] [Accepted: 01/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Self-splicing of group I intron from the 26S rRNA of Candida albicans is essential for maturation of the host RNA. Here, we demonstrated that the co-transcriptional splicing of the intron in vitro was blocked by antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) targeting the P3-P7 core of the intron. The core-targeted AON effectively and specifically inhibited the intron splicing from its host RNA in living C. albicans. Furthermore, flow cytometry experiments showed that the growth inhibition was caused by a fungicidal effect. For the first time, we showed that an AON targeting the ribozyme core folding specifically inhibits the endogenous ribozyme splicing in living cells and specifically kills the intron-containing fungal strains, which sheds light on the development of antifungal drugs in the future.
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- Libin Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Virology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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Cao Y, Huang S, Dai B, Zhu Z, Lu H, Dong L, Cao Y, Wang Y, Gao P, Chai Y, Jiang Y. Candida albicans cells lacking CaMCA1-encoded metacaspase show resistance to oxidative stress-induced death and change in energy metabolism. Fungal Genet Biol 2008; 46:183-9. [PMID: 19049890 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2008.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2008] [Revised: 10/31/2008] [Accepted: 11/04/2008] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Candida albicans, an opportunistic pathogen, can undergo programmed cell death upon various stimuli, including oxidative stress. In this study, we showed that deletion of CaMCA1, a homologue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae metacaspase YCA1, could both attenuated oxidative stress-induced cell death and caspase activation. Compared to wild-type strain, Camca1Delta mutant showed higher accumulation of trehalose and transcription of the genes related to trehalose biosynthesis (TPS2 and TPS3) under the condition of oxidative stress. Furthermore, lower intracellular ATP concentration and mitochondrial membrane potential, less endogenous reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation were observed in Camca1Delta mutant. Our results suggest that CaMCA1 might mediate the sensitiveness to oxidative stress by affecting energy metabolism in C. albicans.
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- Yingying Cao
- School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China
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Expression of death receptor 4 induces caspase-independent cell death in MMS-treated yeast. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2008; 376:305-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.08.159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2008] [Accepted: 08/26/2008] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Greenall A, Lei G, Swan DC, James K, Wang L, Peters H, Wipat A, Wilkinson DJ, Lydall D. A genome wide analysis of the response to uncapped telomeres in budding yeast reveals a novel role for the NAD+ biosynthetic gene BNA2 in chromosome end protection. Genome Biol 2008; 9:R146. [PMID: 18828915 PMCID: PMC2760873 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-10-r146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2008] [Revised: 09/23/2008] [Accepted: 10/01/2008] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Telomeres prevent the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes from being recognized as damaged DNA and protect against cancer and ageing. When telomere structure is perturbed, a co-ordinated series of events promote arrest of the cell cycle so that cells carrying damaged telomeres do not divide. In order to better understand the eukaryotic response to telomere damage, budding yeast strains harboring a temperature sensitive allele of an essential telomere capping gene (cdc13-1) were subjected to a transcriptomic study. RESULTS The genome-wide response to uncapped telomeres in yeast cdc13-1 strains, which have telomere capping defects at temperatures above approximately 27 degrees C, was determined. Telomere uncapping in cdc13-1 strains is associated with the differential expression of over 600 transcripts. Transcripts affecting responses to DNA damage and diverse environmental stresses were statistically over-represented. BNA2, required for the biosynthesis of NAD+, is highly and significantly up-regulated upon telomere uncapping in cdc13-1 strains. We find that deletion of BNA2 and NPT1, which is also involved in NAD+ synthesis, suppresses the temperature sensitivity of cdc13-1 strains, indicating that NAD+ metabolism may be linked to telomere end protection. CONCLUSIONS Our data support the hypothesis that the response to telomere uncapping is related to, but distinct from, the response to non-telomeric double-strand breaks. The induction of environmental stress responses may be a conserved feature of the eukaryotic response to telomere damage. BNA2, which is involved in NAD+ synthesis, plays previously unidentified roles in the cellular response to telomere uncapping.
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- Amanda Greenall
- Aging Research Laboratories, Institute for Aging and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Aging and Nutrition, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
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- Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Aging and Nutrition, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- School of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Bioinformatics Support Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Aging and Nutrition, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK
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- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Aging and Nutrition, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3BZ, UK
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- Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Aging and Nutrition, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- School of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- Aging Research Laboratories, Institute for Aging and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Aging and Nutrition, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Nonapoptotic death of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells that is stimulated by Hsp90 and inhibited by calcineurin and Cmk2 in response to endoplasmic reticulum stresses. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2008; 7:2037-51. [PMID: 18806210 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00291-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress can trigger apoptosis and necrosis in many types of mammalian cells. Previous studies in yeast found little or no cell death in response to the ER stressor tunicamycin, but a recent study suggested widespread apoptosis-like death. Here we show that wild-type laboratory Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells responding to tunicamycin die by nonapoptotic mechanisms in low-osmolyte culture media and survive for long periods of time in standard synthetic media. Survival requires calcineurin, a Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, but none of its known targets. The Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase Cmk2 was identified as an indirect target of calcineurin that suppresses death of calcineurin-deficient cells. Death of Cmk2- and/or calcineurin-deficient S. cerevisiae cells was preceded by accumulation of reactive oxygen species but was not associated with hallmarks of apoptosis and was not dependent on Mca1, Aif1, Nuc1, or other factors implicated in apoptosis-like death. Cmk2 and calcineurin also independently suppressed the death of S. cerevisiae cells responding to dithiothreitol or miconazole, a common azole-class antifungal drug. Though inhibitors of Hsp90 have been shown to diminish calcineurin signaling in S. cerevisiae and to synergistically inhibit growth in combination with azoles, they did not stimulate death of S. cerevisiae cells in combination with miconazole or tunicamycin, and instead they prevented the death of calcineurin- and Cmk2-deficient cells. These findings reveal a novel prodeath role for Hsp90 and antideath roles for calcineurin and Cmk2 that extend the life span of S. cerevisiae cells responding to both natural and clinical antifungal compounds.
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Lee REC, Puente LG, Kærn M, Megeney LA. A non-death role of the yeast metacaspase: Yca1p alters cell cycle dynamics. PLoS One 2008; 3:e2956. [PMID: 18698411 PMCID: PMC2493032 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2008] [Accepted: 07/23/2008] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Caspase proteases are a conserved protein family predominantly known for engaging and executing apoptotic cell death. Nevertheless, in higher eukaryotes, caspases also influence a variety of cell behaviors including differentiation, proliferation and growth control. S. cerevisiae expresses a primordial caspase, yca1, and exhibits apoptosis-like death under certain stresses; however, the benefit of a dedicated death program to single cell organisms is controversial. In the absence of a clear rationale to justify the evolutionary retention of a death only pathway, we hypothesize that yca1 also influences non-apoptotic events. We report that genetic ablation and/or catalytic inactivation of Yca1p leads to a longer G1/S transition accompanied by slower growth in fermentation conditions. Downregulation of Yca1p proteolytic activity also results in failure to arrest during nocodazole treatment, indicating that Yca1p participates in the G2/M mitotic checkpoint. 20s proteasome activity and ROS staining of the Δyca1 strain is indistinguishable from its isogenic control suggesting that putative regulation of the oxidative stress response by Yca1p does not instigate the cell cycle phenotype. Our results demonstrate multiple non-death roles for yca1 in the cell cycle.
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- Robin E. C. Lee
- Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Low CP, Shui G, Liew LP, Buttner S, Madeo F, Dawes IW, Wenk MR, Yang H. Caspase-dependent and -independent lipotoxic cell-death pathways in fission yeast. J Cell Sci 2008; 121:2671-84. [PMID: 18653539 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.028977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Understanding the mechanisms underlying lipid-induced cell death has significant implications in both cell biology and human diseases. Previously, we showed that fission-yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells deficient in triacylglycerol synthesis display apoptotic markers upon entry into stationary phase. Here, we characterize the sequential molecular events that take place at the onset of cell death in S. pombe, including a surge of diacylglycerol, post-mitotic arrest, alterations in mitochondrial activities and in intracellular redox balance, chromatin condensation, nuclear-envelope fragmentation, and eventually plasma-membrane permeabilization. Our results demonstrated active roles of mitochondria and reactive oxygen species in cell death, and identified novel cell-death regulators--including metacaspase Pca1, BH3-domain protein Rad9, and diacylglycerol-binding proteins Pck1 and Bzz1. Most importantly, we show that, under different conditions and stimuli, failure to maintain intracellular-lipid homeostasis can lead to cell death with different phenotypic manifestations, genetic criteria and cellular mechanisms, pointing to the existence of multiple lipotoxic pathways in this organism. Our study represents the first in-depth analysis of cell-death pathways in S. pombe.
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- Choon Pei Low
- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Republic of Singapore
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Cadmium induces a heterogeneous and caspase-dependent apoptotic response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Apoptosis 2008; 13:811-21. [PMID: 18463984 DOI: 10.1007/s10495-008-0215-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The toxic metal cadmium is linked to a series of degenerative disorders in humans, in which Cd-induced programmed cell death (apoptosis) may play a role. The yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, provides a valuable model for elucidating apoptosis mechanisms, and this study extends that capability to Cd-induced apoptosis. We demonstrate that S. cerevisiae undergoes a glucose-dependent, programmed cell death in response to low cadmium concentrations, which is initiated within the first hour of Cd exposure. The response was associated with induction of the yeast caspase, Yca1p, and was abolished in a yca1Delta mutant. Cadmium-dependent apoptosis was also suppressed in a gsh1Delta mutant, indicating a requirement for glutathione. Other apoptotic markers, including sub-G(1) DNA fragmentation and hyper-polarization of mitochondrial membranes, were also evident among Cd-exposed cells. These responses were not distributed uniformly throughout the cell population, but were restricted to a subset of cells. This apoptotic subpopulation also exhibited markedly elevated levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS). The heightened ROS levels alone were not sufficient to induce apoptosis. These findings highlight several new perspectives to the mechanism of Cd-dependent apoptosis and its phenotypic heterogeneity, while opening up future analyses to the power of the yeast model system.
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Hauptmann P, Lehle L. Kex1 protease is involved in yeast cell death induced by defective N-glycosylation, acetic acid, and chronological aging. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:19151-63. [PMID: 18474590 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m801303200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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N-glycosylation in the endoplasmic reticulum is an essential protein modification and highly conserved in evolution from yeast to humans. The key step of this pathway is the transfer of the lipid-linked core oligosaccharide to the nascent polypeptide chain, catalyzed by the oligosaccharyltransferase complex. Temperature-sensitive oligosaccharyltransferase mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at the restrictive temperature, such as wbp1-1, as well as wild-type cells in the presence of the N-glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin display typical apoptotic phenotypes like nuclear condensation, DNA fragmentation, phosphatidylserine translocation, caspase-like activity, and reactive oxygen species accumulation. Since deletion of the yeast metacaspase YCA1 did not abrogate this death pathway, we postulated a different proteolytic process to be responsible. Here, we show that Kex1 protease is involved in the programmed cell death caused by defective N-glycosylation. Its disruption decreases caspase-like activity, production of reactive oxygen species, and fragmentation of mitochondria and, conversely, improves growth and survival of cells. Moreover, we demonstrate that Kex1 contributes also to the active cell death program induced by acetic acid stress or during chronological aging, suggesting that Kex1 plays a more general role in cellular suicide of yeast.
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- Peter Hauptmann
- Lehrstuhl für Zellbiologie und Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
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Mroczek S, Kufel J. Apoptotic signals induce specific degradation of ribosomal RNA in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:2874-88. [PMID: 18385160 PMCID: PMC2396418 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2007] [Revised: 11/26/2007] [Accepted: 11/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Organisms exposed to reactive oxygen species, generated endogenously during respiration or by environmental conditions, undergo oxidative stress. Stress response can either repair the damage or activate one of the programmed cell death (PCD) mechanisms, for example apoptosis, and finally end in cell death. One striking characteristic, which accompanies apoptosis in both vertebrates and yeast, is a fragmentation of cellular DNA and mammalian apoptosis is often associated with degradation of different RNAs. We show that in yeast exposed to stimuli known to induce apoptosis, such as hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, hyperosmotic stress and ageing, two large subunit ribosomal RNAs, 25S and 5.8S, became extensively degraded with accumulation of specific intermediates that differ slightly depending on cell death conditions. This process is most likely endonucleolytic, is correlated with stress response, and depends on the mitochondrial respiratory status: rRNA is less susceptible to degradation in respiring cells with functional defence against oxidative stress. In addition, RNA fragmentation is independent of two yeast apoptotic factors, metacaspase Yca1 and apoptosis-inducing factor Aif1, but it relies on the apoptotic chromatin condensation induced by histone H2B modifications. These data describe a novel phenotype for certain stress- and ageing-related PCD pathways in yeast.
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Du L, Su Y, Sun D, Zhu W, Wang J, Zhuang X, Zhou S, Lu Y. Formic acid induces Yca1p-independent apoptosis-like cell death in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res 2008; 8:531-9. [PMID: 18452540 DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00375.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Formic acid disrupts mitochondrial electron transport and sequentially causes cell death in mammalian ocular cells by an unidentified molecular mechanism. Here, we show that a low concentration of formic acid induces apoptosis-like cell death in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with several morphological and biochemical changes that are typical of apoptosis, including chromatin condensation, DNA fragmentation, externalization of phosphatidylserine, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential and mitochondrion destruction. This process may not be dependent on the activation of Yca1p, the yeast caspase counterpart. In addition, the cell death induced by formic acid is associated with ROS burst,while intracellular ROS accumulate more rapidly and to a higher level in the YCA1 disruptant than in the wild-type strain during the progression of cell death. Our data indicate that formic acid induces yeast apoptosis via an Yca1p-independent pathway and it could be used as an extrinsic inducer for identifying the regulators downstream of ROS production in yeast.
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- Lin Du
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Republic of China
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Liang Q, Li W, Zhou B. Caspase-independent apoptosis in yeast. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2008; 1783:1311-9. [PMID: 18358844 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2007] [Revised: 01/31/2008] [Accepted: 02/20/2008] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Apoptosis is a highly regulated cellular suicide program crucial for metazoan development. Yeast counterparts of central metazoan apoptotic regulators, such as metacaspase Yca1p, have been identified. In spite of the importance of Yca1p in yeast apoptotic process, many other factors such as Aif1p, orthologs of EndoG, AMID and cyclophilin D play important roles in caspase-independent apoptotic pathways. This review summarized recent progress about studies of various intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic stimuli that may induce yeast cell death via caspase-independent apoptosis.
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- Qiuli Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Low CP, Yang H. Programmed cell death in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2008; 1783:1335-49. [PMID: 18328827 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2007] [Revised: 01/25/2008] [Accepted: 02/04/2008] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Yeasts have proven to be invaluable, genetically tractable systems to study various fundamental biological processes including programmed cell death. Recent advances in the elucidation of the molecular pathways underlying apoptotic cell death in yeasts have revealed remarkable similarities to mammalian apoptosis at cellular, organelle and macromolecular levels, thus making a strong case for the relevance of yeast models of regulated cell death. Programmed cell death has been reported in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, primarily in the contexts of perturbed intracellular lipid metabolism, defective DNA replication, improper mitotic entry, chronological and replicative aging. Here we review the current understanding of the programmed cell death in fission yeast, paying particular attention to lipid-induced cell death. We discuss our recent findings that fission yeast exhibits plasticity of apoptotic and non-apoptotic modes of cell death in response to different lipid stimuli and growth conditions, and that mitochondria, reactive oxygen species and novel cell death mediators including metacaspase Pca1, SpRad9 and Pck1 are involved in the lipotoxic cell death. We also present perspectives on how various aspects of the cell and molecular biology of this organism can be explored to shed light on the governing principles underlying lipid-mediated signaling and cell demise.
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- Choon Pei Low
- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
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Lee YJ, Hoe KL, Maeng PJ. Yeast cells lacking the CIT1-encoded mitochondrial citrate synthase are hypersusceptible to heat- or aging-induced apoptosis. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:3556-67. [PMID: 17615299 PMCID: PMC1951759 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-02-0118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the initial reaction of the tricarboxylic acid cycle is catalyzed by the mitochondrial citrate synthase Cit1. The function of Cit1 has previously been studied mainly in terms of acetate utilization and metabolon construction. Here, we report the relationship between the function of Cit1 and apoptosis. Yeast cells with cit1 deletion showed a temperature-sensitive growth phenotype, and they displayed a rapid loss in viability associated with typical apoptotic hallmarks, i.e., reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and nuclear fragmentation, DNA breakage, and phosphatidylserine translocation, when exposed to heat stress. On long-term cultivation, cit1 null strains showed increased potentials for both aging-induced apoptosis and adaptive regrowth. Activation of the metacaspase Yca1 was detected during heat- or aging-induced apoptosis in cit1 null strains, and accordingly, deletion of YCA1 suppressed the apoptotic phenotype caused by cit1 null mutation. Cells with cit1 deletion showed higher tendency toward glutathione (GSH) depletion and subsequent ROS accumulation than the wild type, which was rescued by exogenous GSH, glutamate, or glutathione disulfide (GSSG). These results led us to conclude that GSH deficiency in cit1 null cells is caused by an insufficient supply of glutamate necessary for biosynthesis of GSH rather than the depletion of reducing power required for reduction of GSSG to GSH.
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- Yong Joo Lee
- *Department of Microbiology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, 305-764 Daejeon, Korea; and
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- Functional Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 305-806 Daejeon, Korea
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- *Department of Microbiology, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, 305-764 Daejeon, Korea; and
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Weber A, Paschen SA, Heger K, Wilfling F, Frankenberg T, Bauerschmitt H, Seiffert BM, Kirschnek S, Wagner H, Häcker G. BimS-induced apoptosis requires mitochondrial localization but not interaction with anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 177:625-36. [PMID: 17517961 PMCID: PMC2064208 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200610148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Release of apoptogenic proteins such as cytochrome c from mitochondria is regulated by pro- and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins, with pro-apoptotic BH3-only proteins activating Bax and Bak. Current models assume that apoptosis induction occurs via the binding and inactivation of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins by BH3-only proteins or by direct binding to Bax. Here, we analyze apoptosis induction by the BH3-only protein Bim(S). Regulated expression of Bim(S) in epithelial cells was followed by its rapid mitochondrial translocation and mitochondrial membrane insertion in the absence of detectable binding to anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins. This caused mitochondrial recruitment and activation of Bax and apoptosis. Mutational analysis of Bim(S) showed that mitochondrial targeting, but not binding to Bcl-2 or Mcl-1, was required for apoptosis induction. In yeast, Bim(S) enhanced the killing activity of Bax in the absence of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins. Thus, cell death induction by a BH3-only protein can occur through a process that is independent of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins but requires mitochondrial targeting.
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- Arnim Weber
- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Various findings suggest that programmed cell death (PCD) is induced in yeast as a response to the impact of a deleterious environment and/or an intracellular defect. Moreover, the specifically localized PCD within multicellular colonies seems to be important for the safe degradation of cell subpopulations to simple compounds that can be used as nutrients by healthy survivors occurring in propitious colony areas, being thus important for proper development and survival of the yeast population. In spite of this, the question remains whether yeast dies by real apoptosis, i.e. death involving caspases, or by other kinds of PCD. A large group of mammalian caspases includes those that are responsible for monitoring of the stimulus and initiating the dying process, as well as those involved in the execution of death. Additionally, paracaspases and metacaspases, that share some homology with real caspases, but possibly differ in substrate specificity, have been identified in plants, fungi, Dictyostelium and metazoa. In yeast, one homologue of caspases, metacaspase Mca1p/Yca1p, has been identified so far, although there are several indications of the presence of other caspase-like activities in yeast. In this minireview, we summarize various data on the possible involvement of Mca1p and other caspase-like activities in yeast PCD.
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- Libuse Váchová
- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Richie DL, Miley MD, Bhabhra R, Robson GD, Rhodes JC, Askew DS. TheAspergillus fumigatusmetacaspases CasA and CasB facilitate growth under conditions of endoplasmic reticulum stress. Mol Microbiol 2006; 63:591-604. [PMID: 17176258 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05534.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We have examined the contribution of metacaspases to the growth and stress response of the opportunistic human mould pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus, based on increasing evidence implicating the yeast metacaspase Yca1p in apoptotic-like programmed cell death. Single metacaspase-deficient mutants were constructed by targeted disruption of each of the two metacaspase genes in A. fumigatus, casA and casB, and a metacaspase-deficient mutant, DeltacasA/DeltacasB, was constructed by disrupting both genes. Stationary phase cultures of wild-type A. fumigatus were associated with the appearance of typical markers of apoptosis, including elevated proteolytic activity against caspase substrates, phosphatidylserine exposure on the outer leaflet of the membrane, and loss of viability. By contrast, phosphatidylserine exposure was not observed in stationary phase cultures of the DeltacasA/DeltacasB mutant, although caspase activity and viability was indistinguishable from wild type. The mutant retained wild-type virulence and showed no difference in sensitivity to a range of pro-apoptotic stimuli that have been reported to initiate yeast apoptosis. However, the DeltacasA/DeltacasB mutant showed a growth detriment in the presence of agents that disrupt endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis. These findings demonstrate that metacaspase activity in A. fumigatus contributes to the apoptotic-like loss of membrane phospholipid asymmetry at stationary phase, and suggest that CasA and CasB have functions that support growth under conditions of endoplasmic reticulum stress.
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- Daryl L Richie
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0529, USA
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Kissová I, Plamondon LT, Brisson L, Priault M, Renouf V, Schaeffer J, Camougrand N, Manon S. Evaluation of the Roles of Apoptosis, Autophagy, and Mitophagy in the Loss of Plating Efficiency Induced by Bax Expression in Yeast. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:36187-97. [PMID: 16990272 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m607444200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We found recently that, in yeast cells, the heterologous expression of Bax induces a loss of plating efficiency different from that induced by acute stress because it is associated with the maintenance of plasma membrane integrity (Camougrand, N., Grelaud-Coq, A., Marza, E., Priault, M., Bessoule, J. J., and Manon, S. (2003) Mol. Microbiol. 47, 495-506). Bax effects were neither dependent on the presence of the yeast metacaspase Yca1p and the apoptosis-inducing factor homolog nor associated with the appearance of typical apoptotic markers such as metacaspase activation, annexin V binding, and DNA cleavage. Yeast cells expressing Bax instead displayed autophagic features, including increased accumulation of Atg8p, activation of vacuolar alkaline phosphatase, and the presence of autophagosomes and autophagic bodies. However, the inactivation of autophagy did not prevent and actually slightly accelerated Bax-induced loss of plating efficiency. On the other hand, Bax expression induced a fragmentation of the mitochondrial network, which retained, however, some level of organization in wild-type cells. However, when expressed in cells inactivated for the gene UTH1, previously shown to be involved in mitophagy, Bax induced a complete disorganization of the mitochondrial network. Interestingly, although mitochondrially targeted green fluorescent protein was slowly degraded in the wild-type strain, it remained unaffected in the mutant. Furthermore, the slow loss of plating efficiency in the mutant strain correlated with a loss of plasma membrane integrity. These data suggest that Bax-induced loss of growth capacity is associated with maintenance of plasma membrane integrity dependent on UTH1, suggesting that selective degradation of altered mitochondria is required for a regulated loss of growth capacity.
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- Ingrid Kissová
- UMR5095 CNRS/Université de Bordeaux 2, 1 Rue Camille Saint-Saëns, 33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France
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González IJ, Desponds C, Schaff C, Mottram JC, Fasel N. Leishmania major metacaspase can replace yeast metacaspase in programmed cell death and has arginine-specific cysteine peptidase activity. Int J Parasitol 2006; 37:161-72. [PMID: 17107676 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2006] [Revised: 09/26/2006] [Accepted: 10/02/2006] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The human protozoan parasite Leishmania major has been shown to exhibit several morphological and biochemical features characteristic of a cell death program when differentiating into infectious stages and under a variety of stress conditions. Although some caspase-like peptidase activity has been reported in dying parasites, no caspase gene is present in the genome. However, a single metacaspase gene is present in L. major whose encoded protein harbors the predicted secondary structure and the catalytic dyad histidine/cysteine described for caspases and other metacaspases identified in plants and yeast. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae metacaspase YCA1 has been implicated in the death of aging cells, cells defective in some biological functions, and cells exposed to different environmental stresses. In this study, we describe the functional heterologous complementation of a S. cerevisiae yca1 null mutant with the L. major metacaspase (LmjMCA) in cell death induced by oxidative stress. We show that LmjMCA is involved in yeast cell death, similar to YCA1, and that this function depends on its catalytic activity. LmjMCA was found to be auto-processed as occurs for caspases, however LmjMCA did not exhibit any activity with caspase substrates. In contrast and similarly to Arabidopsis thaliana metacaspases, LmjMCA was active towards substrates with arginine in the P1 position, with the activity being abolished following H147A and C202A catalytic site mutations. These results suggest that metacaspases are members of a family of peptidases with a role in cell death conserved in evolution notwithstanding possible differences in their catalytic activity.
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- Iveth J González
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, 155 Chemin des Boveresses, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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Caspases, key mediators of apoptosis, are a structurally related family of cysteine proteases that cleave their substrates at aspartic acid residues either to cause cell death or to activate cytokines as part of an immune response. They can be controlled upstream by the regulation of signals that lead to zymogen activation, or downstream by inhibitors that prevent them from reaching their substrates. This review specifically looks at caspase inhibitors as distinct from caspase regulators: those produced by the cell itself; those whose genes are carried by viruses; and artificial caspase inhibitors used for research and potentially as therapeutics.
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- B A Callus
- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia.
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LaFleur MD, Kumamoto CA, Lewis K. Candida albicans biofilms produce antifungal-tolerant persister cells. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2006; 50:3839-46. [PMID: 16923951 PMCID: PMC1635216 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00684-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fungal pathogens form biofilms that are highly recalcitrant to antimicrobial therapy. The expression of multidrug resistance pumps in young biofilms has been linked to increased resistance to azoles, but this mechanism does not seem to underlie the resistance of mature biofilms that is a model of in vivo infection. The mechanism of drug resistance of mature biofilms remains largely unknown. We report that biofilms formed by the major human pathogen Candida albicans exhibited a strikingly biphasic killing pattern in response to two microbicidal agents, amphotericin B, a polyene antifungal, and chlorhexidine, an antiseptic, indicating that a subpopulation of highly tolerant cells, termed persisters, existed. The extent of killing with a combination of amphotericin B and chlorhexidine was similar to that observed with individually added antimicrobials. Thus, surviving persisters form a multidrug-tolerant subpopulation. Interestingly, surviving C. albicans persisters were detected only in biofilms and not in exponentially growing or stationary-phase planktonic populations. Reinoculation of cells that survived killing of the biofilm by amphotericin B produced a new biofilm with a new subpopulation of persisters. This suggests that C. albicans persisters are not mutants but phenotypic variants of the wild type. Using a stain for dead cells, rare dark cells were visible in a biofilm after amphotericin B treatment, and a bright and a dim population were physically sorted from this biofilm. Only the dim cells produced colonies, showing that this method allows the isolation of yeast persisters. Given that persisters formed only in biofilms, mutants defective in biofilm formation were examined for tolerance of amphotericin B. All of the known mutants affected in biofilm formation were able to produce normal levels of persisters. This finding indicates that attachment rather than formation of a complex biofilm architecture initiates persister formation. Bacteria produce multidrug-tolerant persister cells in both planktonic and biofilm populations, and it appears that yeasts and bacteria have evolved analogous strategies that assign the function of survival to a small part of the population. In bacteria, persisters are dormant cells. It remains to be seen whether attachment initiates dormancy that leads to the formation of fungal persisters. This study suggests that persisters may be largely responsible for the multidrug tolerance of fungal biofilms.
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- Michael D LaFleur
- Department of Biology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., 134 Mugar Hall, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Saraiva L, Silva RD, Pereira G, Gonçalves J, Côrte-Real M. Specific modulation of apoptosis and Bcl-xL phosphorylation in yeast by distinct mammalian protein kinase C isoforms. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:3171-81. [PMID: 16835272 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Mammalian protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms have been subject of particular attention because of their ability to modulate apoptotic proteins. However, the roles played by each PKC isoform in apoptosis are still unclear. Here, expression of individual mammalian PKC isoforms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used as a new approach to study the role of each isoform in apoptosis. The four isoforms tested, excepting PKC-δ, stimulate S. cerevisiae acetic-acid-induced apoptosis essentially through a mitochondrial ROS-dependent pathway. However, their co-expression with Bcl-xL reveals a PKC-isoform-dependent modulation of Bcl-xL anti-apoptotic activity. A yeast pathway homologue to the mammalian SAPK/JNK is responsible for acetic-acid-induced Bcl-xL phosphorylation that is differently modulated by PKC isoforms. The data obtained suggest conservation of an ancient mechanism of apoptosis regulation in yeast and mammals and offer new insights into mammalian apoptosis modulation by PKC isoforms.
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- Lucília Saraiva
- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Centro de Estudos de Química Orgânica, Fitoquímica e Farmacologia da Universidade do Porto (CEQOFFUP), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Aníbal Cunha 164, 4050-047 Porto, Portugal
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Puryer MA, Hawkins CJ. Human, insect and nematode caspases kill Saccharomyces cerevisiae independently of YCA1 and Aif1p. Apoptosis 2006; 11:509-17. [PMID: 16538379 DOI: 10.1007/s10495-006-5114-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This study characterised the impact of active metazoan apoptotic proteases (caspases) on Saccharomyces cerevisiae viability. Expression of active caspase-3 or caspase-8 in yeast ruptured plasma and nuclear membranes and dramatically impaired clonogenic survival, but did not damage DNA. Deletion of the proposed yeast apoptosis regulators YCA1 or Aif1p did not affect the ability of human, insect or nematode caspases to kill yeast. These data indicate that expression of active metazoan caspases causes irreversible damage to yeast membranes and organelles, in a manner independent of YCA1 and Aif1p.
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- M A Puryer
- Children's Cancer Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, 3052, Australia
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Hauptmann P, Riel C, Kunz-Schughart LA, Fröhlich KU, Madeo F, Lehle L. Defects in N-glycosylation induce apoptosis in yeast. Mol Microbiol 2006; 59:765-78. [PMID: 16420350 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04981.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
N-glycosylation in the endoplasmic reticulum is an essential protein modification and highly conserved in evolution from yeast to man. Defects of N-glycosylation in humans lead to congenital disorders. The pivotal step of this pathway is the transfer of the evolutionarily conserved lipid-linked core-oligosaccharide to the nascent polypeptide chain, catalysed by the oligosaccharyltransferase. One of its nine subunits, Ost2, has homology to DAD1, originally characterized in hamster cells as a defender against apoptotic death. Here we show that ost mutants, such as ost2 and wbp1-1, display morphological and biochemical features of apoptosis upon induction of the glycosylation defect. We observe nuclear condensation, DNA fragmentation as well as externalization of phosphatidylserine. We also demonstrate induction of caspase-like activity, both determined by flow cytometric analysis and in cell-free extracts. Similarly, the N-glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin in combination with elevated temperature is able to challenge the apoptotic cascade. Heterologous expression of anti-apoptotic human Bcl-2 diminishes caspase activation, improves survival of cells and suppresses the temperature-sensitive growth defect of wbp1-1. Furthermore, accumulation of reactive oxygen species occurs in response to defective glycosylation. As deletion of the metacaspase YCA1 does not seem to abrogate glycosylation-induced apoptosis, we postulate a different proteolytic process to be involved in this death pathway.
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Affiliation(s)
- Peter Hauptmann
- Lehrstuhl für Zellbiologie und Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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