Synergistic activation of caspase-3 by m-calpain after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia: a mechanism of "pathological apoptosis"?
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Synergistic activation of caspase-3 by m-calpain after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia: a mechanism of "pathological apoptosis"?
Abstract
The relative contributions of apoptosis and necrosis in brain injury have been a matter of much debate. Caspase-3 has been identified as a key protease in the execution of apoptosis, whereas calpains have mainly been implicated in excitotoxic neuronal injury. In a model of unilateral hypoxia-ischemia in 7-day-old rats, caspase-3-like activity increased 16-fold 24 h postinsult, coinciding with cleavage of the caspase-3 proenzyme and endogenous caspase-3 substrates. This activation was significantly decreased by pharmacological calpain inhibition, using CX295, a calpain inhibitor that did not inhibit purified caspase-3 in vitro. Activation of caspase-3 by m-calpain, but not mu-calpain, was facilitated in a dose-dependent manner in vitro by incubating cytosolic fractions, containing caspase-3 proform, with calpains. This facilitation required the presence of some active caspase-3 and could be abolished by including the specific calpain inhibitor calpastatin. This indicates that initial cleavage of caspase-3 by m-calpain, producing a 29-kDa fragment, facilitates the subsequent cleavage into active forms. This is the first report to our knowledge suggesting a direct link between the early, excitotoxic, calcium-mediated activation of calpain after cerebral hypoxia-ischemia and the subsequent activation of caspase-3, thus representing a tentative pathway of "pathological apoptosis."
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