Sequential activation of caspases and synergistic beta-cell cytotoxicity by palmitate and anti-Fas antibodies.
Naotoshi Hirota, Shuichi Otabe, Hitomi Nakayama, Xiaohong Yuan, Kentaro Yamada
Index: Life Sci. 79(13) , 1312-6, (2006)
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Abstract
To assess the mechanism of beta-cell lipotoxicity in comparison with Fas-mediated cell death, we used a mouse beta-cell clone stably transfected with human Fas. Palmitate induced beta-cell death in correlation with medium glucose levels between 5 and 20 mmol/l, while Fas-mediated cytotoxicity was observed irrespective of glucose concentration. At the glucose level of 10 mmol/l, palmitate induced caspase-6 activity within 3 h, and caspase-3 activity after a lag period of 6 h. The activities of caspases were correlated with glucose concentration. A caspase-6 inhibitor attenuated caspase-3 activation and cell death induced by palmitate. Oxfenicine, an inhibitor of carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1, attenuated both palmitate-induced cytotoxicity and activation of caspases. Finally, beta-cell cytotoxicity caused by the combination of anti-Fas and palmitate at 25 mmol/l of glucose was greater than the sum of those induced by each. These observations suggest that palmitate induces sequential activation of caspase-6 and caspase-3 through a mitochondrial signal(s), and caspase-6 plays a primary role in the mechanism. Fas-mediated beta-cell death and lipotoxicity may share common mechanisms involving caspase activation, and thereby synergistically inducing beta-cell death, although upstream signaling pathways are distinct.
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