The selection between apoptosis and necrosis is differentially regulated in hydrogen peroxide-treated and glutathione-depleted human promonocytic cells.

Abstract

Treatment with 0.2 mM hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) or with 0.5 mM cisplatin caused caspase-9 and caspase-3 activation and death by apoptosis in U-937 human promonocytic cells. However, treatment with 2 mM H(2)O(2), or incubation with the glutathione suppressor DL-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO) prior to treatment with cisplatin, suppressed caspase activation and changed the mode of death to necrosis. Treatment with 2 mM H(2)O(2) caused a great decrease in the intracellular ATP level, which was partially prevented by 3-aminobenzamide (3-ABA). Correspondingly, 3-ABA restored the activation of caspases and the execution of apoptosis. By contrast, BSO plus cisplatin did not decrease the ATP levels, and the generation of necrosis by this treatment was not affected by 3-ABA. On the other hand, while all apoptosis-inducing treatments and treatment with 2 mM H(2)O(2) caused Bax translocation from the cytosol to mitochondria as well as cytochrome c release from mitochondria to the cytosol, treatment with BSO plus cisplatin did not. Treatment with cisplatin alone caused Bid cleavage, while BSO plus cisplatin as well as 0.2 and 2 mM H(2)O(2) did not. Bcl-2 overexpression reduced the generation of necrosis by H(2)O(2), but not by BSO plus cisplatin. These results indicate the existence of different apoptosis/necrosis regulatory mechanisms in promonocytic cells subjected to different forms of oxidative stress.

• Authors: A Troyano, P Sancho, C Fernández, E de Blas, P Bernardi, P Aller
• Journal: Cell death and differentiation (Cell Death Differ) Vol. 10 Issue 8 Pg. 889-98 (Aug 2003) ISSN: 1350-9047 [Print] England
• PMID: 12867996 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• BAX protein, human
• BCL2L1 protein, human
• Benzamides
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
• bcl-2-Associated X Protein
• bcl-X Protein
• Buthionine Sulfoximine
• 3-aminobenzamide
• Adenosine Triphosphate
• Cytochromes c
• Hydrogen Peroxide
• CASP3 protein, human
• CASP9 protein, human
• Caspase 3
• Caspase 9
• Caspases
• Electron Transport Complex III
• Glutathione
• Cisplatin

Topics

• Adenosine Triphosphate (metabolism)
• Apoptosis (drug effects)
• Benzamides (pharmacology)
• Blotting, Western
• Buthionine Sulfoximine (pharmacology)
• Caspase 3
• Caspase 9
• Caspases (drug effects, metabolism)
• Cisplatin (pharmacology)
• Cytochromes c (drug effects, metabolism)
• Electron Transport Complex III (drug effects, metabolism)
• Flow Cytometry
• Glutathione (deficiency)
• Humans
• Hydrogen Peroxide (pharmacology)
• Microscopy, Fluorescence
• Monocytes (cytology, drug effects, metabolism)
• Necrosis
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins (drug effects, metabolism)
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 (drug effects, genetics, metabolism)
• Transfection
• U937 Cells
• bcl-2-Associated X Protein
• bcl-X Protein