Caspase-1 mediates Fas-induced apoptosis and is up-regulated by interferon-gamma in human astrocytoma cells

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Resistance to Fas-mediated apoptosis contributes to tumor evasion from the host immune system and enables tumors to mediate alternative responses such as inflammation and angiogenesis. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms of the resistance to Fas-mediated apoptosis and sensitization to Fas-induced cell death by IFN-gamma in human astrocytoma cells. To address this, we investigated the expression of thirty-three genes related to the Fas signal transduction pathways using RNase protection assay in five different human astrocytoma cells. Patterns of expression of these genes were similar between different cell lines and did not correlate with sensitivity to Fas-mediated cell death. Treatment with IFN-gamma increased the mRNA expression of caspases- 1, -4 and -7 in addition to those of Fas and TRAIL in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Studies using specific caspase inhibitors showed that Fas-induced cell death was mediated by caspases- 1, -3 and 8 in the Fas-sensitive human astrocytoma cell lines, CRT-J and U87-MG. We further demonstrated that these caspases were proteolytically cleaved upon Fas ligation in these cells. Interestingly, caspase-1 protein expression but not that of caspase-3 nor -8 was up-regulated by IFN-gamma only in Fas-sensitive CRT-J cells but not in Fas-resistant U373-MG cells. These results collectively suggest that caspase-1, along with caspases-3 and -8, mediate Fas-induced cell death in human astrocytoma cells, and post-transcriptional regulation of caspase-1 may determine the responsiveness to IFN-gamma- induced sensitization to Fas-mediated apoptosis.
Publisher
SPRINGER
Issue Date
2004-03
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

TUMOR-NECROSIS-FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA CONVERTING-ENZYME; HUMAN GLIOMA-CELLS; LIGAND-INDUCED APOPTOSIS; IFN-GAMMA; TNF-ALPHA; CARCINOMA CELLS; AKT ACTIVATION; CANCER CELLS; MOUSE MODEL

Citation

JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY, v.67, pp.167 - 176

ISSN
0167-594X
DOI
10.1023/B:NEON.0000021896.52664.9e
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/82750
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