PMID: 8954145Oct 1, 1996Paper

Bcl-2 protects cells from cytokine-induced nitric-oxide-dependent apoptosis

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy : CII
K XieI J Fidler

Abstract

Cytokine-mediated cell death in tumor cells can be achieved through endogenous nitric oxide (NO) from within tumor cells or exogenous NO from either activated macrophages or endothelial cells. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of Bcl-2 in NO-mediated apoptosis. The incubation of murine L929 and NIH3T3 cells with interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) and interferon gamma (IFN gamma) induced high endogenous NO production only in the L929 cells that also underwent apoptosis. NIH3T3 cells were not resistant to NO-mediated apoptosis. In fact, the incubation of L929 and NIH3T3 cells with exogenous NO derived from NO donors, sodium nitroprusside, or S-nitroso-N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine (SNAP) induced death, characterized by typical apoptotic morphology and DNA fragmentation, in both cell types, but to a higher degree in NIH3T3 cells than in the L929 cells. We then measured the effect of Bcl-2 expression on exogenous NO-induced apoptosis. At both the mRNA and protein levels, L929 fibroblasts expressed higher levels of endogenous mouse Bcl-2 than did NIH3T3 cells. At the same time, L929 cells were much more resistant to exogenous NO-induced cell death than were NIH3T3 cells. The inverse correlation between mouse Bcl-2 expres...Continue Reading

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