Abstract
Stress-activated protein (SAP) kinases and the mitochondrial pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein Bak are important regulators of apoptosis. Reduced expression of Bak increases cellular resistance to the anticancer agent cisplatin, and we report here that mouse embryo fibroblasts deficient in the SAP kinase jnk1 are highly resistant to apoptosis induced by cisplatin. When human melanoma cells were treated with cisplatin, Bak function was found to be regulated in two distinct steps by two SAP kinases, MEKK1 and JNK1. The first of these steps involves MEKK1-controlled conformational activation of Bak. The second step leads to formation of 80-170 kDa Bak complexes correlating with apoptosis, and is controlled by JNK1. Inhibition of MEKK1 blocked the initial Bak conformational activation but did not block JNK1 activation, and deficiency in, or inhibition of, JNK1 did not prevent conformational activation of Bak. Furthermore, inducible expression of a constitutively active form of MEKK1 led to Bak conformational activation, but not to 80-170 kDa complexes. Consequently, apoptosis was delayed unless JNK was exogenously stimulated, indicating that Bak conformational activation is not necessarily an apoptotic marker. The two-step regulation of ...Continue Reading
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