Role for Bcl-xL as an inhibitor of cytosolic cytochrome C accumulation in DNA damage-induced apoptosis

AUTOR(ES)

Kharbanda, Surender

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

Cytochrome C is a mitochondrial protein that induces apoptosis when released into the cytosol or when added to cell-free extracts. Here we show that cells that overexpress the Bcl-2-related protein Bcl-xL fail to accumulate cytosolic cytochrome C or undergo apoptosis in response to genotoxic stress. Coimmunoprecipitation studies demonstrate that Bcl-xL associates with cytochrome C. Cytochrome C binds directly and specifically to Bcl-xL and not to the proapoptotic Bcl-xs protein. The results also demonstrate that Bcl-xs blocks binding of cytochrome C to Bcl-xL. Our findings support a role for Bcl-xL in protecting cells from apoptosis by inhibiting the availability of cytochrome C in the cytosol.

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