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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60601
The intracellular signaling
pathways that control O2 deprivation (anoxia)-induced
apoptosis have not been fully defined in lung epithelial cells.
We show here that the lung epithelial cell line A549 releases
cytochrome c and activates caspase-9 followed by DNA
fragmentation and plasma membrane breakage in response to anoxia. The
antiapoptotic protein Bcl-XL prevented the
anoxia-induced cell death by inhibiting the release of cytochrome
c and caspase-9 activation. A549 cells devoid of
mitochondrial DNA (
°-cells) and lacking a functional electron
transport chain were resistant to anoxia-induced apoptosis.
A549 cells preconditioned with either hypoxia (1.5% O2) or
tumor necrosis factor-
, which activated the transcription
factors hypoxia-inducible factor-1 or nuclear factor-
B,
respectively, did not provide protection from anoxia-induced cell
death. These results indicate that A549 cells require a functional electron transport chain and the release of cytochrome c for
anoxia-induced apoptosis.
Bcl-XL; hypoxia; hypoxia inducible factor-1; tumor
necrosis factor-
; nuclear factor-
B
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