Apoptosis is induced in leishmanial cells by a novel protein kinase inhibitor withaferin A and is facilitated by apoptotic topoisomerase I-DNA complex
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Apoptosis is induced in leishmanial cells by a novel protein kinase inhibitor withaferin A and is facilitated by apoptotic topoisomerase I-DNA complex
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Sen, N
Banerjee, B Das, BB Ganguly, A Sen, T Pramanik, S Mukhopadhyay, S Majumder, HK |
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Cell Biology
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Protein kinase C (PKC) is an important constituent of the signaling pathways involved in apoptosis. We report here that like staurosporine, withaferin A is a potent inhibitor of PKC. In Leishmania donovani, the inhibition of PKC by withaferin A causes depolarization of Delta Psi(m) and generates ROS inside cells. Loss of Delta Psi(m) leads to the release of cytochrome c into the cytosol and subsequently activates caspase-like proteases and oligonucleosomal DNA cleavage. Moreover, in treated cells, oxidative DNA lesions facilitate the stabilization of topoisomerase I-mediated cleavable complexes, which also contribute to DNA fragmentation. However, withaferin A and staurosporine cannot induce cleavable complex formation in vitro with recombinant topoisomerase I nor with nuclear extracts from control cells. Taken together, our results indicate that inhibition of PKC by withaferin A is a central event for the induction of apoptosis and that the stabilization of topoisomerase I-DNA complex is necessary to amplify apoptotic process.
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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUPLONDONMACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND
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2011-09-20T12:12:41Z
2011-09-20T12:12:41Z 2007 |
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Article
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CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
1350-9047 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/14382 |
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English
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