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Dominant cell death induction by extramitochondrially targeted apoptosis-inducing factor
M Loeffler et al. FASEB J. 2001 Mar.
Abstract
The complete AIF cDNA comprising the amino-terminal mitochondrial localization sequence (MLS) and the oxidoreductase domain has been fused in its carboxyl terminus to enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP), thereby engineering an AIF-GFP fusion protein that is selectively targeted to the mitochondrial intermembrane space. Upon induction of apoptosis, the AIF-GFP protein translocates together with cytochrome c (Cyt-c) to the extramitochondrial compartment. Microinjection of recombinant AIF leads to the release of AIF-GFP and Cyt-c-GFP, indicating that ectopic AIF can favor permeabilization of the outer mitochondrial membrane. These mitochondrial effects of AIF are caspase independent, whereas the Cyt-c-microinjection induced translocation of AIF-GFP and Cyt-c-GFP is suppressed by the pan-caspase inhibitor Z-VAD.fmk. Upon prolonged culture, transfection-enforced overexpression of AIF results in spontaneous translocation of AIF-GFP from mitochondria, nuclear chromatin condensation, and cell death. These effects are caspase independent and do not rely on the oxidoreductase function of AIF. Spontaneous AIF-GFP translocation and subsequent nuclear apoptosis can be retarded by overexpression of a Bcl-2 protein selectively targeted to mitochondria, but not by a Bcl-2 protein targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum. Overexpression of a mutant AIF protein in which the MLS has been deleted (AIF Delta 1-100) results in the primary cytosolic accumulation of AIF. AIF Delta 1-100-induced cell death is suppressed by neither Z-VAD.fmk or by Bcl-2. Thus, extramitochondrially targeted AIF is a dominant cell death inducer.
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