PMID: 9422355Jan 9, 1998Paper

Programmed cell death in cortical chick embryo astrocytes is associated with activation of protein kinase PK60 and ceramide formation

Journal of Neurochemistry
D Mangoura, G Dawson

Abstract

Embryonic astrocytes respond readily to serine/threonine kinase regulation in terms of cytoskeleton assembly, mitotic activity, and cell fate. We now present evidence that these responses include apoptosis. Staurosporine induced apoptosis in astrocyte cultures derived from chick embryo cerebral hemispheres, as assayed both by immunocytochemical detection of new 3-hydroxy DNA ends and production of 200-bp DNA fragment laddering. Staurosporine treatment also resulted in the prolonged (>24 h) activation of a 60-kDa serine/threonine protein kinase (PK60), increased ceramide formation (fourfold after 24 h), increased glutamine synthetase activity, and significant apoptosis (40%) after 24 h. PK60 was shown to be cytoskeleton associated and its activity, as measured by phosphorylation of myelin basic protein, was rapid, increased for up to 3 h, and was stable for at least 24 h. Other protein kinase C inhibitors, H8, sphingosine, calphostin C, or the protein kinase A inhibitor KT5720 did not induce either PK60 activation or apoptosis. The dose-dependent increase in [3H]palmitate labeling of ceramide and a specific decrease in labeling of its precursor sphingomyelin were not blocked by the biosynthetic inhibitor fumonisin beta1 but were...Continue Reading

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