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Blood, 1 April 2005, Vol. 105, No. 7, pp. 2970-2972. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on November 30, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-07-2870. This Article Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: 2004-07-2870v1 105/7/2970    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Cowburn, A. S Articles by Chilvers, E. R Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Cowburn, A. S Articles by Chilvers, E. R Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Next Article  Submitted July 27, 2004 Accepted November 17, 2004 z-VAD-fmk-augmentation of TNF-stimulated neutrophil apoptosis is compound specific and does not involve the generation of reactive oxygen species Andrew S Cowburn*, Jessica F White, John Deighton, Sarah R Walmsley, and Edwin R Chilvers Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's and Papworth Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom * Corresponding author; email: asc32{at}cam.ac.uk. In most cell types constitutive and ligand-induced apoptosis is a caspase-dependent process. In neutrophils however the broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor z-VAD-fmk enhances TNF-induced cell death and this has been interpreted as evidence for caspase-dependent and -independent cell death pathways. Our aim was to determine the specificity of the effect of z-VAD-fmk in neutrophils and define the potential mechanism of action. While confirming that z-VAD-fmk ( >100µM) enhances TNF-induced neutrophil apoptosis, lower concentrations (1-30µM) completely blocked TNF-stimulated apoptosis. Boc-D-fmk, a similar broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor and z-IETD-fmk, a selective caspase-8 inhibitor caused a concentration-dependent inhibition only of also blocked TNF-stimulated apoptosis at all concentrations tested. Moreover, the caspase-9 inhibitor, Ac-LEHD-cmk, had no effect on TNF-induced apoptosis and z-VAD-fmk and Boc-D-fmk inhibited TNF-stimulated (ROS) generation. These data suggest that TNF-induced apoptosis in neutrophils is fully caspase-dependent, utilises a predominantly mitochondrial independent pathway and that the pro-apoptotic effects of z-VAD-fmk are compound specific and ROS independent. CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? This article has been cited by other articles: L. R. Prince, S. M. Bianchi, K. M. Vaughan, M. A. Bewley, H. M. Marriott, S. R. 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