Zinc inhibits apoptosis upstream of ICE/CED-3 proteases rather than at the level of an endonuclease
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Zinc inhibits apoptosis upstream of ICE/CED-3 proteases rather than at the level of an endonuclease
Abstract
Apoptosis is commonly associated with DNA digestion, but it remains controversial as to which endonuclease is involved. The ability of zinc to inhibit DNA digestion in intact cells, and inhibit a Ca2+/Mg2+-dependent endonuclease in cell lysates, has been used frequently to suggest this is the endonuclease involved. However, zinc has many other effects on cells, and here it is shown that zinc also prevents many upstream events in apoptosis. These studies were performed in human ML-1 cells following incubation with etoposide. During apoptosis, these cells undergo intracellular acidification, increased accumulation of Hoechst 33342, DNA digestion and chromatin condensation. Zinc inhibited all of these events. An upstream event in apoptosis is activation of ICE/CED-3 proteases which is commonly observed as proteolysis of a substrate protein, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). The ICE/CED-3 proteases are themselves activated by proteolysis, and this was detected here by cleavage of one family member CPP32. Zinc prevented cleavage of both CPP32 and PARP. We recently demonstrated that dephosphorylation of the retinoblastoma susceptibility protein Rb was a marker of an event even further upstream in apoptosis; zinc was also found to inhibit Rb dephosphorylation. Therefore, zinc must protect cells at a very early step in the apoptotic pathway, and not as a direct inhibitor of an endonuclease.
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