Ribozyme-mediated inhibition of caspase-3 activity reduces apoptosis induced by 6-hydroxydopamine in PC12 cells

Brain Research
R XuY Jin

Abstract

6-Hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) is a neurotoxin used in the induction of experimental Parkinson's disease in both animals and PC12 cells, which are derived from rat pheochromocytoma tumors and have many properties similar to dopamine neurons. Biochemical and molecular approaches have shown that low doses of 6-OHDA induce apoptosis in PC12 cells and, in the processing of apoptosis, caspases are crucial mediators, and caspase inhibition is sufficient to rescue PC12 cells from apoptosis induced by 6-OHDA. However, because this caspase inhibition targets multiple caspases, it is not known whether a single caspase is primarily responsible for effecting cell death in this model. To assess the particular member (caspase-3) of the ced-3 family relevant to cell death and to position their activation within the apoptotic pathway, we constructed a hammerhead ribozyme directed against rat caspase-3, which could downregulate the expression of caspase-3 in vitro and in vivo, and transfer to PC12 cells. The results show that the ribozymes against caspase-3 could protect PC12 cells from apoptosis induced by low doses of 6-OHDA. The PC12 cell transfected with the ribozymes shows a significant decrease in caspase-3 activity compared with control cell...Continue Reading

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