Inhibition of the interleukin-1β converting enzyme family rescues neurons from apoptotic death (original) (raw)
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The interleukin-1_β_ converting enzyme (ICE) family of cysteine proteases has been implicated in apoptosis. This study tested the effects of a novel pan-ICE family inhibitor, boc-aspartyl(OMe)-fluoromethylketone (boc-Asp-CH2F), against low potassium-induced apoptosis of cultured rat cerebellar granule neurons (CGN). A single application of this cell-permeant compound (20 _μ_M) inhibited apoptotic cell death up to 48 h. Classical apoptotic changes were monitored by fluorescence microscopy, DNA fragmentation and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). A control peptidic fluoromethylketone (boc-Thr-CH2F), and inhibitors to calpain (Ac-Leu-Leu-norleucinal), cathepsin B (Z-Phe-Ala-CH2F), and CPP32-like proteases (Z-DEVD-CH2F), failed to prevent apoptotic death. An 35S-methionine incorporation assay verified that, unlike cycloheximide, boc-Asp-CH2F did not inhibit protein synthesis, hence excluding this as a rescuing mechanism. Although ICE was not detected by northern blot analysis, both CPP32 and Nedd2 expression were found to increase during apoptosis. Kinetic assays with cell extracts from boc-Asp-CH2F-treated neurons measured reduced rates of cleavage for DEVD-pNA and LEVD-pNA. At present, ICE-like proteases remain viable candidates for mediating neuronal death.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA
T Lynch - Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division, Neuroscience Therapeutics, Warner-Lambert Co, Ann Arbor, 48105, MI, USA
J P Vasilakos, K Raser, K M Keane & B D Shivers
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Lynch, T., Vasilakos, J., Raser, K. et al. Inhibition of the interleukin-1_β_ converting enzyme family rescues neurons from apoptotic death.Mol Psychiatry 2, 227–238 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000242
- Received: 18 October 1996
- Accepted: 02 December 1996
- Issue Date: 01 May 1997
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000242