Mitochondrial ceramide-rich macrodomains functionalize Bax upon irradiation.
Mitochondrial ceramide-rich macrodomains functionalize Bax upon irradiation.
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线粒体富含神经酰胺的宏域在辐照后功能化bax。
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0019783
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Kolesnick R
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作者:
Lee H;Rotolo JA;Mesicek J;Penate-Medina T;Rimner A;Liao WC;Yin X;Ragupathi G;Ehleiter D;Gulbins E;Zhai D;Reed JC;Haimovitz-Friedman A;Fuks Z;Kolesnick R
Evidence indicates that Bax functions as a “lipidic” pore to regulate mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP), the apoptosis commitment step, through unknown membrane elements. Here we show mitochondrial ceramide elevation facilitates MOMP-mediated cytochrome c release in HeLa cells by generating a previously-unrecognized mitochondrial ceramide-rich macrodomain (MCRM), which we visualize and isolate, into which Bax integrates. MCRMs, virtually non-existent in resting cells, form upon irradiation coupled to ceramide synthase-mediated ceramide elevation, optimizing Bax insertion/oligomerization and MOMP. MCRMs are detected by confocal microscopy in intact HeLa cells and isolated biophysically as a light membrane fraction from HeLa cell lysates. Inhibiting ceramide generation using a well-defined natural ceramide synthase inhibitor, Fumonisin B1, prevented radiation-induced Bax insertion, oligomerization and MOMP. MCRM deconstruction using purified mouse hepatic mitochondria revealed ceramide alone is non-apoptogenic. Rather Bax integrates into MCRMs, oligomerizing therein, conferring 1–2 log enhanced cytochrome c release. Consistent with this mechanism, MCRM Bax isolates as high molecular weight “pore-forming” oligomers, while non-MCRM membrane contains exclusively MOMP-incompatible monomeric Bax. Our recent studies in the C. elegans germline indicate that mitochondrial ceramide generation is obligate for radiation-induced apoptosis, although a mechanism for ceramide action was not delineated. Here we demonstrate that ceramide, generated in the mitochondrial outer membrane of mammalian cells upon irradiation, forms a platform into which Bax inserts, oligomerizes and functionalizes as a pore. We posit conceptualization of ceramide as a membrane-based stress calibrator, driving membrane macrodomain organization, which in mitochondria regulates intensity of Bax-induced MOMP, and is pharmacologically tractable in vitro and in vivo.
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Cremesti, A;Paris, F;Kolesnick, R
通讯作者:
Kolesnick, R
DOI:
10.1083/jcb.147.1.175
发表时间:
1999-10-04
期刊:
The Journal of cell biology
影响因子:
--
作者:
Abrami L;van Der Goot FG
通讯作者:
van Der Goot FG
DOI:
10.1126/science.1158111
发表时间:
2008-10-03
期刊:
Science (New York, N.Y.)
影响因子:
--
作者:
Deng X;Yin X;Allan R;Lu DD;Maurer CW;Haimovitz-Friedman A;Fuks Z;Shaham S;Kolesnick R
通讯作者:
Kolesnick R
影响因子:
4.1
作者:
del Pulgar, TG;Velasco, G;Guzmán, M
通讯作者:
Guzmán, M
影响因子:
8
作者:
Dumitru, C. A.;Gulbins, E.
通讯作者:
Gulbins, E.