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. 2014 Dec 15;127(Pt 24):5273-87.
doi: 10.1242/jcs.157024. Epub 2014 Nov 6.

DAPK-HSF1 interaction as a positive-feedback mechanism stimulating TNF-induced apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells

Natalya Benderska  1 , Jelena Ivanovska  1 , Tilman T Rau  1 , Jan Schulze-Luehrmann  1 , Suma Mohan  2 , Saritha Chakilam  1 , Muktheshwar Gandesiri  1 , Elisabeth Ziesché  3 , Thomas Fischer  4 , Stephan Söder  1 , Abbas Agaimy  1 , Luitpold Distel  5 , Heinrich Sticht  6 , Vijayalakshmi Mahadevan  2 , Regine Schneider-Stock  7
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DAPK-HSF1 interaction as a positive-feedback mechanism stimulating TNF-induced apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells

Natalya Benderska et al. J Cell Sci. .

Abstract

Death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) is a serine-threonine kinase with tumor suppressor function. Previously, we demonstrated that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) induced DAPK-mediated apoptosis in colorectal cancer. However, the protein-protein interaction network associated with TNF-DAPK signaling still remains unclear. We identified HSF1 as a new DAPK phosphorylation target in response to low concentrations of TNF and verified a physical interaction between DAPK and HSF1 both in vitro and in vivo. We show that HSF1 binds to the DAPK promoter. Transient overexpression of HSF1 protein led to an increase in DAPK mRNA level and consequently to an increase in the amount of apoptosis. By contrast, treatment with a DAPK-specific inhibitor as well as DAPK knockdown abolished the phosphorylation of HSF1 at Ser230 (pHSF1(Ser230)). Furthermore, translational studies demonstrated a positive correlation between DAPK and pHSF1(Ser230) protein expression in human colorectal carcinoma tissues. Taken together, our data define a novel link between DAPK and HSF1 and highlight a positive-feedback loop in DAPK regulation under mild inflammatory stress conditions in colorectal tumors. For the first time, we show that under TNF the pro-survival HSF1 protein can be redirected to a pro-apoptotic program.

Keywords: Apoptosis; Cancer; Colon; DAPK; HSF1; TNF.

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