Role of caspases in CD95-induced biphasic activation of acid sphingomyelinase

Autor: Stefan Schütze, Uwe Bertsch, Bärbel Edelmann, Mario Stephan, Jürgen Fritsch, Cristiana Perrotta, Supandi Winoto-Morbach, Ottmar Janssen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Oncotarget
ISSN: 1949-2553
Popis: // Mario Stephan 1, * , Barbel Edelmann 2, * , Supandi Winoto-Morbach 1 , Ottmar Janssen 1 , Uwe Bertsch 1 , Cristiana Perrotta 3 , Stefan Schutze 1, * , Jurgen Fritsch 1, * 1 Institute of Immunology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany 2 Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 3 Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco” (DIBIC), Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Jurgen Fritsch, email: Juergen.Fritsch@uksh.de Keywords: acid sphingomyelinase, ceramide, CD95 ligand, internalization, CD95-receptosomes Received: November 16, 2016 Accepted: January 24, 2017 Published: February 16, 2017 ABSTRACT Acid sphingomyelinase (A-SMase) plays an important role in the initiation of CD95 signaling by forming ceramide-enriched membrane domains that enable clustering and activation of the death receptors. In TNF-R1 and TRAIL-R1/R2 signaling, A-SMase also contributes to the lysosomal apoptosis pathway triggered by receptor internalization. Here, we investigated the molecular mechanism of CD95-mediated A-SMase activation, demonstrating that A-SMase is located in internalized CD95-receptosomes and is activated by the CD95/CD95L complex in a biphasic manner. Since several caspases have been described to be involved in the activation of A-SMase, we evaluated expression levels of caspase-8, caspase-7 and caspase-3 in CD95-receptosomes. The occurrence of cleaved caspase-8 correlated with the first peak of A-SMase activity and translocation of the A-SMase to the cell surface which could be blocked by the caspase-8 inhibitor IETD. Inhibition of CD95-internalization selectively reduced the second phase of A-SMase activity, suggesting a fusion between internalized CD95-receptosomes and an intracellular vesicular pool of A-SMase. Further analysis demonstrated that caspase-7 activity correlates with the second phase of the A-SMase activity, whereas active caspase-3 is present at early and late internalization time points. Blocking caspases-7/ -3 by DEVD reduced the second phase of A-SMase activation in CD95-receptosomes suggesting the potential role of caspase-7 or -3 for late A-SMase activation. In summary, we describe a biphasic A-SMase activation in CD95-receptosomes indicating (I.) a caspase-8 dependent translocation of A-SMase to plasma membrane and (II.) a caspase-7 and/or -3 dependent fusion of internalized CD95-receptosomes with intracellular A-SMase-containing vesicles.
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