ArticleCell death and differentiation2023
A BAK subdomain that binds mitochondrial lipids selectively and releases cytochrome C.
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- Mesencephalic Astrocyte-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Binds BAX to Preserve Mitochondrial Homeostasis and Energy Metabolism for Relieving Myocardial Hypertrophy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Mitochondrial metabolism and cancer therapeutic innovation.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Review
- An unconventional autophagic pathway that inhibits ATP secretion during apoptotic cell death.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Regulation of apoptosis and interaction with cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Prohibitions in the meta-inflammatory response: a review.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Review
- Eltrombopag directly activates BAK and induces apoptosis.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
- Identification and validation of a novel prognostic signature based on mitochondria and oxidative stress related genes for glioblastoma.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
How BAK and BAX induce mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) permeabilization (MOMP) during apoptosis is incompletely understood. Here we have used molecular dynamics simulations, surface plasmon resonance, and assays for membrane permeabilization in vitro and in vivo to assess the structure and function of selected BAK subdomains and their derivatives. Results of these studies demonstrate that BAK helical regions α5 and α6 bind the MOM lipid cardiolipin. While individual peptides corresponding to these helical regions lack the full biological activity of BAK, tandem peptides corresponding to α4-α5, α5-α6, or α6-α7/8 can localize exogenous proteins to mitochondria, permeabilize liposomes composed of MOM lipids, and cause MOMP in the absence of the remainder of the BAK protein. Importantly, the ability of these tandem helices to induce MOMP under cell-free conditions is diminished by mutations that disrupt the U-shaped helix-turn-helix structure of the tandem peptides or decrease their lipid binding. Likewise, BAK-induced apoptosis in intact cells is diminished by CLS1 gene interruption, which decreases mitochondrial cardiolipin content, or by BAK mutations that disrupt the U-shaped tandem peptide structure or diminish lipid binding. Collectively, these results suggest that BAK structural rearrangements during apoptosis might mobilize helices involved in specific protein-lipid interactions that are critical for MOMP.
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