Bharti A, Kraeft S K, Gounder M, Pandey P, Jin S, Yuan Z M, Lees-Miller S P, Weichselbaum R, Weaver D, Chen L B, Kufe D, Kharbanda S
Cancer Pharmacology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Mol Cell Biol. 1998 Nov;18(11):6719-28. doi: 10.1128/MCB.18.11.6719.
Protein kinase Cdelta (PKCdelta) is proteolytically cleaved and activated at the onset of apoptosis induced by DNA-damaging agents, tumor necrosis factor, and anti-Fas antibody. A role for PKCdelta in apoptosis is supported by the finding that overexpression of the catalytic fragment of PKCdelta (PKCdelta CF) in cells is associated with the appearance of certain characteristics of apoptosis. However, the functional relationship between PKCdelta cleavage and induction of apoptosis is unknown. The present studies demonstrate that PKCdelta associates constitutively with the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs). The results show that PKCdelta CF phosphorylates DNA-PKcs in vitro. Interaction of DNA-PKcs with PKCdelta CF inhibits the function of DNA-PKcs to form complexes with DNA and to phosphorylate its downstream target, p53. The results also demonstrate that cells deficient in DNA-PK are resistant to apoptosis induced by overexpressing PKCdelta CF. These findings support the hypothesis that functional interactions between PKCdelta and DNA-PK contribute to DNA damage-induced apoptosis.
蛋白激酶Cδ(PKCδ)在DNA损伤剂、肿瘤坏死因子和抗Fas抗体诱导的细胞凋亡开始时被蛋白水解切割并激活。PKCδ在细胞凋亡中的作用得到了以下发现的支持:在细胞中过表达PKCδ的催化片段(PKCδ CF)与细胞凋亡某些特征的出现有关。然而,PKCδ切割与细胞凋亡诱导之间的功能关系尚不清楚。目前的研究表明,PKCδ与DNA依赖性蛋白激酶催化亚基(DNA-PKcs)组成性结合。结果表明,PKCδ CF在体外可使DNA-PKcs磷酸化。DNA-PKcs与PKCδ CF的相互作用抑制了DNA-PKcs与DNA形成复合物并使其下游靶点p53磷酸化的功能。结果还表明,缺乏DNA-PK的细胞对过表达PKCδ CF诱导的细胞凋亡具有抗性。这些发现支持了以下假设:PKCδ与DNA-PK之间的功能相互作用有助于DNA损伤诱导的细胞凋亡。