Review Cell Death: Critical Control Points Another Line of Evidence for the Importance of Caspases in Cell Death Came From
Review Cell Death: Critical Control Points Another Line of Evidence for the Importance of Caspases in Cell Death Came From
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Horvitz had the insight to mutagenize C. elegans, in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute order to identify genes regulating all 131 somatic cell Harvard Medical School deaths (Ellis and Horvitz, 1986). For their pioneering con-Boston, Massachusetts 02115 tributions to developmental genetics and programmed cell death, the triumvirate of Brenner, Horvitz, and Sul-ston received the 2002 Nobel Prize. Initially, two genes, Programmed cell death is a distinct genetic and bio-ced-3 and ced-4 were noted to be absolutely required chemical pathway essential to metazoans. An intact for all deaths. Whereas, another gene, ced-9 is required death pathway is required for successful embryonic to prevent cell death and was first identified by a gain-development and the maintenance of normal tissue of-function mutation n1950, which dominantly blocked homeostasis. Apoptosis has proven to be tightly inter-all somatic cell death (Hengartner and Horvitz, 1994a). woven with other essential cell pathways. The iden-ced-9 proved to be the worm homolog of the mammalian tification of critical control points in the cell death BCL-2 oncogene, which had been shown to prevent pathway has yielded fundamental insights for basic apoptotic cell death. Moreover, mammalian BCL-2 was biology, as well as provided rational targets for new capable of functioning in C. elegans (Vaux et al., 1992; therapeutics. Hengartner and Horvitz, 1994b) suggesting the evolutionary conservation of this cell death pathway. Programmed cell death (Lockshin and Williams, 1965) The cloning and characterization of ced-3 provided a and its morphologic manifestation of apoptosis (Kerr et critical insight into how the core apoptotic machinery al., 1972) is a conserved pathway that in its basic tenets executes cell death. ced-3 encoded a protein related to appears operative in all metazoans. Cell deaths during the mammalian interleukin 1 converting enzyme (ICE) embryonic development are essential for successful or-involved in inflammation (Yuan et al., 1993). Expression ganogenesis and the crafting of complex multicellular of either ced-3 or ICE in mammalian cells induced cell tissues. The evolutionary advent of differentiated cell death. ICE became the first member (caspase-1) of a types may have necessitated controlling death as well family of proteases dependent on a cysteine nucleophile as division in order to keep neighboring cells interdepen-to cleave motifs possessing aspartic acid (aspase), thus dent and insure the proper balance of each cell lineage. the name caspase (Thornberry and Lazebnik, 1998). Apoptosis also operates in adult organisms to maintain Caspases are produced as inactive zymogens pos-normal cellular homeostasis. This is especially critical …