Synergism between staurosporine and drugs inducing endoplasmic reticulum stress

Biochemical Pharmacology
Federico CusinatoLucia Trevisi

Abstract

Drugs causing endoplasmic reticulum or mitochondrial dysfunction may trigger apoptosis in eukaryotic cells. The thiol reagent dithiothreitol (DTT) belongs to the first group whereas the protein kinases inhibitor staurosporine acts on mitochondria. Since the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondrial pathways of apoptosis may converge in common steps, we examined the possibility of synergism between these two drugs. Using the activation of caspase-3 as indicator of apoptosis, we found that in two cell lines, Jurkat and Mono-Mac 6, staurosporine and DTT elicited apoptosis with a different pattern: staurosporine acted rapidly and at nanomolar concentrations while DTT acted slowly and at higher concentrations (1mM). When staurosporine and DTT were combined, the proapoptotic action was increased. This was confirmed examining late apoptotic events such as the translocation of phosphatidylserine across the plasma membrane and the cleavage of the antiapoptotic protein Mcl-1. The use of subthreshold DTT concentrations and isobologram analysis demonstrated the synergic nature of the interaction. Tunicamycin, a drug that, like DTT, inhibits protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum also increased the proapoptotic effect of staurospori...Continue Reading

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