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ArticlePloS one2011

Identification of a conserved anti-apoptotic protein that modulates the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway.

Yu Zhang, Elisabet Johansson, Marian L Miller, Reiner U Jänicke, Donald J Ferguson, David Plas, Jarek Meller, Marshall W Anderson

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Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Yu ZhangSchool of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
Elisabet Johansson
Marian L Miller
Reiner U Jänicke
Donald J Ferguson
David Plas
Jarek Meller
Marshall W Anderson
University of Cincinnati · USUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · USHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEMedical College of Wisconsin · USMiami University · US

Funding

REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICOLOGY RESEARCHP30ES006096 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI YADAV, JAGJIT S · 1992 to 2022
$35.4M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006096NIEHS NIH HHS (P30 ES06096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here we identified an evolutionarily highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed protein (C9orf82) that shows structural similarities to the death effector domain of apoptosis-related proteins. RNAi knockdown of C9orf82 induced apoptosis in A-549 and MCF7/casp3-10b lung and breast carcinoma cells, respectively, but not in cells lacking caspase-3, caspase-10 or both. Apoptosis was associated with activated caspases-3, -8, -9 and -10, and inactivation of caspases 10 or 3 was sufficient to block apoptosis in this pathway. Apoptosis upon knockdown of C9orf82 was associated with increased caspase-10 expression and activation, which was required for the generation of an 11 kDa tBid fragment and activation of Caspase-9. These data suggest that C9orf82 functions as an anti-apoptotic protein that modulates a caspase-10 dependent mitochondrial caspase-3/9 feedback amplification loop. We designate this ubiquitously expressed and evolutionarily conserved anti-apoptotic protein Conserved Anti-Apoptotic Protein (CAAP). We also demonstrated that treatment of MCF7/casp3-10b cells with staurosporine and etoposides induced apoptosis and knockdown of CAAP expression. This implies that the CAAP protein could be a target for chemotherapeutic agents.

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ApoptosisApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsBlotting, WesternCaspase 10Caspase 3Caspase 8Caspase 9Cell Line, TumorEtoposideHumansMitochondriaNuclear ProteinsProteinsRNA, Small InterferingStaurosporineApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsCAAP1 protein, humanCaspase 10Caspase 3Caspase 8Caspase 9EtoposideNuclear ProteinsProteinsRNA, Small InterferingStaurosporine

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PMID21980415
PMCPMC3184134
OpenAlexW1988886443

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