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      Related F-box proteins control cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans and human lymphoma.

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
      Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Apoptosis, physiology, Base Sequence, Caenorhabditis elegans, cytology, genetics, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins, Caspases, Cell Line, Tumor, Enzyme Activation, F-Box Proteins, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Lymphoma, pathology, physiopathology, Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Missense, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2, RNA, Messenger, metabolism, RNA, Neoplasm, Repressor Proteins, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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          Cell death is a common metazoan cell fate, and its inactivation is central to human malignancy. In Caenorhabditis elegans, apoptotic cell death occurs via the activation of the caspase CED-3 following binding of the EGL-1/BH3-only protein to the antiapoptotic CED-9/BCL2 protein. Here we report a major alternative mechanism for caspase activation in vivo involving the F-box protein DRE-1. DRE-1 functions in parallel to EGL-1, requires CED-9 for activity, and binds to CED-9, suggesting that DRE-1 promotes apoptosis by inactivating CED-9. FBXO10, a human protein related to DRE-1, binds BCL2 and promotes its degradation, thereby initiating cell death. Moreover, some human diffuse large B-cell lymphomas have inactivating mutations in FBXO10 or express FBXO10 at low levels. Our results suggest that DRE-1/FBXO10 is a conserved regulator of apoptosis.

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