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ArticleCell death & disease2013

Autophagy protein p62/SQSTM1 is involved in HAMLET-induced cell death by modulating apotosis in U87MG cells.

Y-B Zhang, J-L Gong, T-Y Xing, S-P Zheng, W Ding

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Y-B ZhangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
J-L Gong
T-Y Xing
S-P Zheng
W Ding
Capital Medical University · CN

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Abstract

HAMLET is a complex of oleic acids and decalcified α-lactalbumin that was discovered to selectively kill tumor cells both in vitro and in vivo. Autophagy is an important cellular process involved in drug-induced cell death of glioma cells. We treated U87MG human glioma cells with HAMLET and found that the cell viability was significantly decreased and accompanied with the activation of autophagy. Interestingly, we observed an increase in p62/SQSTM1, an important substrate of autophagosome enzymes, at the protein level upon HAMLET treatment for short periods. To better understand the functionality of autophagy and p62/SQSTM1 in HAMLET-induced cell death, we modulated the level of autophagy or p62/SQSTM1 with biochemical or genetic methods. The results showed that inhibition of autophagy aggravated HAMLET-induced cell death, whereas activation of authophagy attenuated this process. Meanwhile, we found that overexpression of wild-type p62/SQSTM1 was able to activate caspase-8, and then promote HAMLET-induced apoptosis, whereas knockdown of p62/SQSTM1 manifested the opposite effect. We further demonstrated that the function of p62/SQSTM1 following HAMLET treatment required its C-terminus UBA domain. Our results indicated that in addition to being a marker of autophagy activation in HAMLET-treated glioma cells, p62/SQSTM1 could also function as an important mediator for the activation of caspase-8-dependent cell death.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosisAutophagyCaspase 8Cell Line, TumorCell SurvivalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansLactalbuminOleic AcidsProtein Structure, TertiarySequestosome-1 ProteinSignal TransductionAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAntineoplastic AgentsCaspase 8HAMLET complex, humanLactalbuminOleic AcidsSequestosome-1 ProteinSQSTM1 protein, human

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PMID23519119
PMCPMC3615731
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