Cell death was also characterized employing ow cytometry with propidium iodide and Annexin V Alexa Fluor 488 staining.
As shown in Figure 2, the late apoptotic cell population elevated from 11. 05% to 35. 95% in cells treated with 1. 5 ug/mL DHTS. We following determined the cleavage deacetylase inhibitor of PARP and activation of caspases in DHTS treated cells. After treatment with DHTS for 24 h, the cleavage of PARP and cleavage forms of caspases 3 and 9 were found in DHTS treated cells in a dose dependent manner. However, neither Bcl 2 expression nor the cleaved form of caspase 8 changed in DHTS treated cells. These results suggest that DHTS induced cell death through an apoptotic pathway in prostate carcinoma cells. To examine whether DHTS causes ER stress in prostate DU145 carcinoma cells, several ER responsive proteins and ERspecic signals were detected.
To examine whether DHTS can inhibit proteasome activity, cause ER stress, block UPR, and subsequently trigger apoptosis, lysates of cells treated with DHTS were subjected to a Western blot analysis with an antibody against ubiquitin. As shown in Figure 5, polyubiquitinated proteins of various sizes PARP were observed in DHTS treated cells in a timedependent manner. The rapidly degradable protein, HIF 1, was also found to accumulate in DHTS treated cells. These results suggest that proteasome activity is indeed inhibited by DHTS treatment. It was suggested that prolonged ER stress can cause cells to undergo apoptosis. To test whether DHTSinduced apoptosis is mediated by ER stress, salubrinal, an inhibitor of eIF2, was used to block DHTS induced ER stress. Induction of apoptosis by DHTS was signicantly reduced by salubrinal, indicating that DHTSinduced apoptosis is partially mediated by ER stress.
Reactive oxygen species are known to inhibit ER calcium pumps and ultimately result in depletion of ER calcium stores.
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