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      Heat Shock Protein 70 Promotes Cell Survival by Inhibiting Lysosomal Membrane Permeabilization

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          Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) is a potent survival protein whose depletion triggers massive caspase-independent tumor cell death. Here, we show that Hsp70 exerts its prosurvival function by inhibiting lysosomal membrane permeabilization. The cell death induced by Hsp70 depletion was preceded by the release of lysosomal enzymes into the cytosol and inhibited by pharmacological inhibitors of lysosomal cysteine proteases. Accordingly, the Hsp70-mediated protection against various death stimuli in Hsp70-expressing human tumor cells as well as in immortalized Hsp70 transgenic murine fibroblasts occurred at the level of the lysosomal permeabilization. On the contrary, Hsp70 failed to inhibit the cytochrome c–induced, apoptosome-dependent caspase activation in vitro and Fas ligand–induced, caspase-dependent apoptosis in immortalized fibroblasts. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that endosomal and lysosomal membranes of tumor cells contained Hsp70. Permeabilization of purified endo/lysosomes by digitonin failed to release Hsp70, suggesting that it is physically associated with the membranes. Finally, Hsp70 positive lysosomes displayed increased size and resistance against chemical and physical membrane destabilization. These data identify Hsp70 as the first survival protein that functions by inhibiting the death-associated permeabilization of lysosomes.

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          Organelle-specific initiation of cell death pathways.

          Nuclear DNA damage and ligation of plasma-membrane death receptors have long been recognized as initial triggers of apoptosis that induce mitochondrial membrane permeabilization (MMP) and/or the direct activation of caspases. Accumulating evidence suggests that other organelles, including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), lysosomes and the Golgi apparatus, are also major points of integration of pro-apoptotic signalling or damage sensing. Each organelle possesses sensors that detect specific alterations, locally activates signal transduction pathways and emits signals that ensure inter-organellar cross-talk. The ER senses local stress through chaperones, Ca2+-binding proteins and Ca2+ release channels, which might transmit ER Ca2+ responses to mitochondria. The ER also contains several Bcl-2-binding proteins, and Bcl-2 has been reported to exert part of its cytoprotective effect within the ER. Upon membrane destabilization, lysosomes release cathepsins that are endowed with the capacity of triggering MMP. The Golgi apparatus constitutes a privileged site for the generation of the pro-apoptotic mediator ganglioside GD3, facilitates local caspase-2 activation and might serve as a storage organelle for latent death receptors. Intriguingly, most organelle-specific death responses finally lead to either MMP or caspase activation, both of which might function as central integrators of the death pathway, thereby streamlining lysosome-, Golgi- or ER-elicited responses into a common pathway.
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            Four deaths and a funeral: from caspases to alternative mechanisms.

            A single family of proteases, the caspases, has long been considered the pivotal executioner of all programmed cell death. However, recent findings of evolutionarily conserved, caspase-independent controlled death mechanisms have opened new perspectives on the biology of cell demise, with particular implications for neurobiology, cancer research and immunological processes.
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              Heat-shock protein 70 antagonizes apoptosis-inducing factor.

              Heat-shock protein 70 (Hsp70) has been reported to block apoptosis by binding apoptosis protease activating factor-1 (Apaf-1), thereby preventing constitution of the apoptosome, the Apaf-1/cytochrome c/caspase-9 activation complex [1,2]. Here we show that overexpression of Hsp70 protects Apaf-1-/- cells against death induced by serum withdrawal, indicating that Apaf-1 is not the only target of the anti-apoptotic action of Hsp70. We investigated the effect of Hsp70 on apoptosis mediated by the caspase-independent death effector apoptosis inducing factor (AIF), which is a mitochondrial intermembrane flavoprotein [3,4]. In a cell-free system, Hsp70 prevented the AIF-induced chromatin condensation of purified nuclei. Hsp70 specifically interacted with AIF, as shown by ligand blots and co-immunoprecipitation. Cells overexpressing Hsp70 were protected against the apoptogenic effects of AIF targeted to the extramitochondrial compartment. In contrast, an anti-sense Hsp70 complementary DNA, which reduced the expression of endogenous Hsp70, increased sensitivity to the lethal effect of AIF. The ATP-binding domain of Hsp70 seemed to be dispensable for inhibiting cell death induced by serum withdrawal, AIF binding and AIF inhibition, although it was required for Apaf-1 binding. Together, our data indicate that Hsp70 can inhibit apoptosis by interfering with target proteins other than Apaf-1, one of which is AIF.
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                Journal
                J Exp Med
                The Journal of Experimental Medicine
                The Rockefeller University Press
                0022-1007
                1540-9538
                16 August 2004
                : 200
                : 4
                : 425-435
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Apoptosis, Institute for Cancer Biology, Danish Cancer Society, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
                [2 ]Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, Germany
                [3 ]Department of Hematology, University Hospital Regensburg, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
                Author notes

                Address correspondence to Marja Jäättelä, Dept. of Apoptosis, Institute for Cancer Biology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Phone: 45-35-257318, Fax: 45-35-257721; email: mhj@ 123456biobase.dk

                Article
                20040531
                10.1084/jem.20040531
                2211935
                15314073
                a20bae3a-2e50-4b01-b6ea-9ec3dc71c9dd
                Copyright © 2004, The Rockefeller University Press
                History
                : 19 March 2004
                : 28 June 2004
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                Medicine
                tumor necrosis factor,cell death,immunoelectron microscopy,neoplasms,cathepsins
                Medicine
                tumor necrosis factor, cell death, immunoelectron microscopy, neoplasms, cathepsins

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