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Blood, 15 December 2005, Vol. 106, No. 13, pp. 4124-4130.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on August 18, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-05-2096.
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Enhanced TNF- –induced apoptosis in Fanconi anemia type C–deficient cells is dependent on apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1
Khadijeh Bijangi-Vishehsaraei,
M. Reza Saadatzadeh,
Adam Werne,
Kristina A. Wilson McKenzie,
Reuben Kapur,
Hidenori Ichijo, and
Laura S. Haneline
From the Departments of Pediatrics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology/Immunology, Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; and University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a chromosomal instability disorder characterized by progressive bone marrow failure. Experimental evidence suggests that enhanced oxidant and myelosuppressive cytokine-mediated apoptosis of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells contributes to the pathogenesis of marrow failure in FA. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the apoptotic phenotype in hematopoietic cells are incompletely understood. Recent data in Fancc-/- murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) implicate increased oxidant-induced apoptotic signaling through the redox-dependent protein, apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (Ask1). Here, we examined whether altered Ask1 signaling participated in the proapoptotic phenotype of primary Fancc-/- MEFs and hematopoietic progenitors treated with the myelosuppressive cytokine tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-). Our data indicate that TNF- induces hyperactivation of Ask1 and the downstream effector p38 in Fancc-/- MEFs. In addition,Ask1 inactivation in Fancc-/- MEFs and hematopoietic progenitors restored survival to wild-type (WT) levels in the presence of TNF-. Furthermore, targeting the Ask1 pathway by using either antioxidants or a p38 inhibitor protected Fancc-/- MEFs and c-kit+ cells from TNF--induced apoptosis. Collectively, these data argue that the predisposition of Fancc-/- hematopoietic progenitors to apoptosis is mediated in part through altered redox regulation and Ask1 hyperactivation.
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