In memoriam, Prof. Jurg Tschopp,
http://www.unil.ch/ib/page9499.html
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Apolist – March 2011
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Catalytic activity of the caspase-8–FLIPL complex inhibits RIPK3-dependent necrosis
Andrew Oberst, Christopher P. Dillon, Ricardo Weinlich, Laura L. McCormick, Patrick Fitzgerald, Cristina Pop, Razq Hakem, Guy S. Salvesen & Douglas R. Green
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7338/full/nature09852.html
RIP3 mediates the embryonic lethality of caspase-8-deficient mice
William J. Kaiser, Jason W. Upton, Alyssa B. Long, Devon Livingston-Rosanoff, Lisa P. Daley-Bauer et al.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7338/full/nature09857.html
Functional complementation between FADD and RIP1 in embryos and lymphocytes
Haibing Zhang, Xiaohui Zhou, Thomas McQuade, Jinghe Li, Francis Ka-Ming Chan et al.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7338/full/nature09878.html
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Death receptor pathway
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Björn Gerlach,1, 2, 7 Stefanie M. Cordier,1, 7 Anna C. Schmukle,1, 7 Christoph H. Emmerich,1, 2, 7 Eva Rieser,1, 7 Tobias L. Haas,2, 3, 7 Andrew I. Webb,4, 7 James A. Rickard,5 Holly Anderton,5 Wendy W.-L. Wong,5 Ueli Nachbur,5 Lahiru Gangoda,5 Uwe Warnken,6 Anthony W. Purcell,4 John Silke & Henning Walczak
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7340/full/nature09816.html
cFLIP isoforms block CD95- and trail death receptor-induced gene induction irrespective of processing of caspase-8 or cFLIP in the death-inducing signalling complex
Shyam M. Kavuri, Peter Geserick, Daniela Berg, Diana Panayotova Dimitrova, Maria Feoktistova, Daniela Siegmund, Harald Gollnick, Manfred Neumann, Harald Wajant, and Martin Leverkus
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M110.148585v1
The scavenging of superoxide radicals promotes apoptosis induced by a novel cell-permeable fusion protein, sTRAIL:FeSOD, in tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-resistant leukemia cells
Tang H, Qin Y, Li J, Gong X
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/18
cIAP1 and TAK1 protect cells from TNF-induced necrosis by preventing RIP1/RIP3-dependent reactive oxygen species production
N Vanlangenakker, T Vanden Berghe, P Bogaert, B Laukens, K Zobel, K Deshayes, D Vucic, S Fulda, P Vandenabeele and M J M Bertrand
http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v18/n4/abs/cdd2010138a.html
Individual caspase-10 isoforms play distinct and opposing roles in the initiation of death receptor-mediated tumour cell apoptosis
A Mühlethaler-Mottet, M Flahaut, K Balmas Bourloud, K Nardou, A Coulon, J Liberman, M Thome and N Gross
http://www.nature.com/cddis/journal/v2/n3/abs/cddis20118a.html
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Caspases and IAPs
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RIG-I RNA Helicase Activation of IRF3 Transcription Factor Is Negatively Regulated by Caspase-8-Mediated Cleavage of the RIP1 ProteinA. Rajput, A. Kovalenko, K. Bogdanov, S.-H. Yang, T.-B. Kang, J.-C. Kim, J. Du, and D. Wallach
http://www.cell.com/immunity/abstract/S1074-7613%2811%2900075-6
Caspase signalling controls microglia activation and neurotoxicity
Miguel A. Burguillos, Tomas Deierborg, Edel Kavanagh, Annette Persson, Nabil Hajji et al.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09788.html
SMAC-mimetics activate the E3 ligase activity of cIAP1 by promoting RING dimerisation Rebecca Feltham, Bodhi Bettjeman, Rhesa Budhidarmo, Peter D. Mace, Sarah Shirley, Stephen M. Condon, Srinivas K. Chunduru, Mark A. McKinlay, David L. Vaux, John Silke, and Catherine L. Day
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M111.222919v1
The X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) mediates cancer cell motility Via RhoGDP dissociation inhibitor (RhoGDI)-dependent regulation of cytoskeleton
Jinyi Liu, Dongyun Zhang, Wenjing Luo, Yonghui Yu, Jianxiu Yu, Jingxia Li, Xinhai Zhang, Baolin Zhang, Jingyuan Chen, Xue-Ru Wu, Germán Rosas-Acosta, and Chuanshu Huang
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M110.176982v1
RNA-binding protein HuR mediates cytoprotection through stimulation of XIAP translation
D Durie, S M Lewis, U Liwak, M Kisilewicz, M Gorospe and M Holcik
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v30/n12/abs/onc2010527a.html
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Bcl-2 family proteins
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BIMEL, an intrinsically disordered protein, is degraded by 20S proteasomes in the absence of poly-ubiquitylation
Ceri M. Wiggins, Peter Tsvetkov, Mark Johnson, Claire L. Joyce, Christopher A. Lamb, Nia J. Bryant, David Komander, Yosef Shaul, and Simon J. Cook
http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/124/6/969
BH3-only activator proteins, Bid and Bim, are dispensable for Bak/Bax-dependent thrombocyte apoptosis induced by Bcl-xL deficiency: Molecular requisites for the mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis in platelets
Takahiro Kodama, Tetsuo Takehara, Hayato Hikita, Satoshi Shimizu, Minoru Shigekawa, Wei Li, Takuya Miyagi, Atsushi Hosui, Tomohide Tatsumi, Hisashi Ishida, Tatsuya Kanto, Naoki Hiramatsu, Xiao-Ming Yin, and Norio Hayashi
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M110.195370v1
Induction of Ca2+-driven apoptosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells by peptide-mediated disruption of Bcl-2–IP3 receptor interaction
Fei Zhong, Michael W. Harr, Geert Bultynck, Giovanni Monaco, Jan B. Parys, Humbert De Smedt, Yi-Ping Rong, Jason K. Molitoris, Minh Lam, Christopher Ryder, Shigemi Matsuyama, and Clark W. Distelhorst
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstract/117/10/2924
miR-24 inhibits apoptosis and represses Bim in mouse cardiomyocytes
Li Qian, Linda W. Van Laake, Yu Huang, Siyuan Liu, Michael F. Wendland, and Deepak Srivastava
http://jem.rupress.org/cgi/content/abstract/208/3/549?etoc
SCFFBW7 regulates cellular apoptosis by targeting MCL1 for ubiquitylation and destruction
Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Shavali Shaik, Ichiro Onoyama,2, 10 Daming Gao,1 Alan Tseng,1 Richard S. Maser,3, 4 Bo Zhai,5 Lixin Wan,1 Alejandro Gutierrez,6 Alan W. Lau,1 Yonghong Xiao,3 Amanda L. Christie,6, 7 Jon Aster,8 Jeffrey Settleman,9 Steven P. Gygi,5 Andrew L. Kung,6, 7 Thomas Look,6 Keiichi I. Nakayama,2 Ronald A. DePinho & Wenyi Wei
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09732
Sensitivity to antitubulin chemotherapeutics is regulated by MCL1 and FBW7
Ingrid E. Wertz,1 Saritha Kusam,1 Cynthia Lam,1, 11 Toru Okamoto,2, 11 Wendy Sandoval,3 Daniel J. Anderson,4 Elizabeth Helgason,1 James A. Ernst,1, 3 Mike Eby,4 Jinfeng Liu,5 Lisa D. Belmont,4 Joshua S. Kaminker,5 Karen M. O’Rourke,6 Kanan Pujara,7 Pawan Bir Kohli,8 Adam R. Johnson,8 Mark L. Chiu,9 Jennie R. Lill,3 Peter K. Jackson,4 Wayne J. Fairbrother,1 Somasekar Seshagiri,7 Mary J. C. Ludlam,4 Kevin G. Leong,4 Erin C. Dueber,1 Heather Maecker,4 David C. S. Huang & Vishva M. Dixit
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7336/full/nature09779.html
Anti-apoptotic activity and proteasome-mediated degradation of Xenopus Mcl-1 in egg extracts
Yuichi Tsuchiya and Shigeru Yamashita
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M110.175927v1
Noxa/Bcl-2 interactions contribute to bortezomib resistance in human lymphoid cells
Alyson J. Smith, Haiming Dai, Cristina Correia, Rie Takahashi, Sun-Hee Lee, Ingo Schmitz, and Scott H. Kaufmann
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M110.189092v1
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Miscellaneous
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Glucose metabolism determines resistance of cancer cells to bioenergetic crisis after cytochrome-c release
Heinrich J Huber, Heiko Dussmann, Seán M Kilbrid1, Markus Rehm & Jochen H M Prehn
http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v7/n1/full/msb20112.html
Stat3 controls lysosomal-mediated cell death in vivo
Peter A. Kreuzaler, Anna D. Staniszewska, Wenjing Li, Nader Omidvar, Blandine Kedjouar, James Turkson, Valeria Poli, Richard A. Flavell, Richard W. E. Clarkson and Christine J. Watson
http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/v13/n3/full/ncb2171.html
Cytotoxicity of red fluorescent protein DsRed is associated with the suppression of Bcl-xL translation
Jun Zhou, Jian Lin, Cuihong Zhou, Xiaoyan Deng, Bin Xia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2011.02.013
A neurodegenerative disease mutation that accelerates the clearance of apoptotic
Aimee W. Kao, Robin J. Eisenhut, Lauren Herl Martens, Ayumi Nakamura, Anne Huang, Josh A. Bagley, Ping Zhou, Alberto de Luis, Lukas J. Neukomm, Juan Cabello, Robert V. Farese, Jr., and Cynthia Kenyon
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/11/4441.abstract?etoc
Ceramide synthase-dependent ceramide generation and programmed cell death: involvement of salvage pathway in regulating post-mitochondrial events Thomas D. Mullen, Russell W. Jenkins, Christopher J. Clarke, Jacek Bielawski, Yusuf A. Hannun, and Lina M. Obeid
http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/M111.230870v1
EndoG Links Bnip3-Induced Mitochondrial Damage and Caspase-Independent DNA Fragmentation in Ischemic Cardiomyocytes
Jisheng Zhang, Junmei Ye, Albert Altafaj, Maria Cardona, Núria Bahi, Marta Llovera, Xavier Cañas, Stuart A. Cook, Joan X. Comella, Daniel Sanchis
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017998
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Reviews
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Apoptosis and oncogenesis: give and take in the BCL-2 family
Fabien Llambi, Douglas R Green
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2010.12.001
Review issue:
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research
Mitochondria: The Deadly Organelle
Edited by Christoph Borner and Georg Häcker
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/4904-2011-981869995-3022738
• BH3-only proteins: Orchestrators of apoptosis
isha Shamas-Din, Hetal Brahmbhatt, Brian Leber, David W. Andrews
• Molecular biology of Bax and Bak activation and action Review Article
Dana Westphal, Grant Dewson, Peter E. Czabotar, Ruth M. Kluck
• Bcl-2 proteins and mitochondria—Specificity in membrane targeting for death Review Article
Jennefer Lindsay, Mauro Degli Esposti, Andrew P. Gilmore
• Mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization during apoptosis: The role of mitochondrial fission Review Article
Thomas Landes, Jean-Claude Martinou
• Apoptogenic factors released from mitochondria Review Article
David L. Vaux
• Apoptosis-induced changes in mitochondrial lipids Review Article
Massimo Crimi, Mauro Degli Esposti
• Caspase-8 and Bid: Caught in the act between death receptors and mitochondria Review Article
Chahrazade Kantari, Henning Walczak
• Integrating stress signals at the endoplasmic reticulum: The BCL-2 protein family rheostat Review Article
Diego Rodriguez, Diego Rojas-Rivera, Claudio Hetz
• Mitochondrial localization of viral proteins as a means to subvert host defense Review Article
Céline Castanier, Damien Arnoult
• Nuclear proteins acting on mitochondria Review Article
Liora Lindenboim, Christoph Borner, Reuven Stein
• Mitochondrial involvement in cell death of non-mammalian eukaryotes Review Article
Eltyeb Abdelwahid, Stephane Rolland, Xinchen Teng, Barbara Conradt, J. Marie Hardwick, Kristin White
• Mathematical modelling of the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway Review Article
Heinrich J. Huber, Heiko Duessmann, Jakub Wenus, Seán M. Kilbride, Jochen H.M. Prehn
• Is mPTP the gatekeeper for necrosis, apoptosis, or both? Review Article
Kathleen W. Kinnally, Pablo M. Peixoto, Shin-Young Ryu, Laurent M. Dejean
• Mitophagy and Parkinson’s disease: The PINK1–parkin link Review Article
Emma Deas, Nicholas W. Wood, Hélène Plun-Favreau
• Mitochondrial longevity pathways
M.H. Vendelbo, K.S. Nair
• Cell metabolism: An essential link between cell growth and apoptosis Review Article
Emily F. Mason, Jeffrey C. Rathmell
Measuring and Modeling Apoptosis in Single Cells
Sabrina L. Spencer, Peter K. Sorger
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.03.002
Integrating the mechanisms of apoptosis induced by endoplasmic reticulum stress
Ira Tabas and David Ron
http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/v13/n3/full/ncb0311-184.html
The Beclin 1 network regulates autophagy and apoptosis
R Kang, H J Zeh, M T Lotze and D Tang
http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v18/n4/full/cdd2010191a.html
Dying for a cause: NETosis, mechanisms behind an antimicrobial cell death modality
Q Remijsen, T W Kuijpers, E Wirawan, S Lippens, P Vandenabeele and T Vanden Berghe
http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v18/n4/full/cdd20111a.html
Distinct roles for the cellular inhibitors of apoptosis proteins 1 and 2
T E Graber and M Holcik
http://www.nature.com/cddis/journal/v2/n3/full/cddis201120a.html
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News and views
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Select: Cell Death and Destruction
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.02.032
Article Outline:
Neutrophils Make the Ultimate Sacrifice
Death Silences Developmental Noise
One Way or Another, Ras Is Gonna Getcha
The Shape of Death’s Dark Shadow
Programmed cell death: Apoptosis meets necrosis ▶
Marcus E. Peter
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7338/full/471310a.html
Necrotic cell death: harnessing the Dark side of the Force in mammary gland involution
Cliff J. Luke and Gary A. Silverman
http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/v13/n3/full/ncb0311-197.html?WT.ec_id=NCB-201103
Death by Lysosome
Nancy R. Gough
A Stat3-regulated pathway leads to lysosomal membrane permeabilization and reduced inhibition of cathepsin activity to promote mammary gland involution.
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sigtrans;4/163/ec65?etoc
A new face of BCL-2 inhibition in CLL
Anthony Letai
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/full/117/10/2750
Caspase-8: Clipping off RIG-I Signaling
S. Roth and J. Ruland
http://www.cell.com/immunity/abstract/S1074-7613(11)00089-6
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