Inhibition of isoprenylcysteine carboxylmethyltransferase induces autophagic-dependent apoptosis and impairs tumor growth

Oncogene
Mei WangP J Casey

Abstract

Inhibition of isoprenylcysteine carboxylmethyltransferase (Icmt), which catalyzes the final step in the post-translational C-terminal processing of prenylated proteins, suppresses tumor cell growth and induces cell death. Icmt inhibition by either a small molecule inhibitor termed as cysmethynil or inhibitory RNA induces marked autophagy leading to cell death. HepG2 cells were used to investigate the function of autophagy in tumor cell death. Suppression of autophagy, either pharmacologically or through knockdown of the autophagy essential proteins, Atg5 or Atg1, inhibits not only cysmethynil-induced autophagy, but also apoptosis in HepG2 cells. The dependence of cysmethynil-induced apoptosis on autophagy was further shown using autophagy-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells. Atg5(-/-) MEF cells were found to be resistant to cysmethynil-induced apoptosis, whereas wild-type MEFs showed high sensitivity to apoptosis induction. These data indicate that inhibition of Icmt can elicit cell death through two linked mechanisms, autophagy and apoptosis, and that autophagy can be an active player upstream of apoptosis in cell types capable of apoptotic cell death, such as HepG2 and MEFs. Further, treatment of mice-bearing Hep...Continue Reading

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