PMID: 9541584Apr 29, 1998Paper

Activation of caspase-3-like enzymes in non-apoptotic T cells

European Journal of Immunology
S WilhelmGeorg Häcker

Abstract

The activation of the caspase family of cysteine proteases is a key step in the implementation of apoptotic cell death leading to further downstream effects such as DNA fragmentation. In cultured tumor cells, caspase activity appears only when cells are undergoing apoptosis. Here we show that human and murine T lymphocytes acquire high intracellular activities of cell death-specific caspases upon activation by mitogens and IL-2 without evidence that apoptosis is proceeding. The highest activity is seen when cells are mitogen activated for 3 days. On a per cell basis, caspase activity in activated T cells is much higher than in tumor cells induced to undergo apoptosis. In the presence of exogenously added IL-2 cells stay alive and maintain a high level of caspase activity while IL-2 withdrawal results in cell death and decline of caspase activity. Caspase activity can also be measured in extracts from spleen and lymph nodes from mice injected with superantigen. While in tumor cell lines caspase activity correlates with cleavage of poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) and DNA fragmentation, in activated T cells cleavage products of cellular PARP can be detected whereas DNA fragmenting activity appears only upon IL-2 withdrawal whic...Continue Reading

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