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  • Title: Tumor necrosis factor induces distinct patterns of caspase activation in WEHI-164 cells associated with apoptosis or necrosis depending on cell cycle stage.
    Author: Faraco PR, Ledgerwood EC, Vandenabeele P, Prins JB, Bradley JR.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1999 Aug 02; 261(2):385-92. PubMed ID: 10425195.
    Abstract:
    TNF is unusual among the death receptor ligands in being able to induce either apoptotic or necrotic cell death. We have observed that in WEHI 164 fibrosarcoma, cells the mode of TNF-induced cell death is dependent on the stage of the cell cycle. Cells arrested in G(0)/G(1) undergo necrosis, while those progressing through the cell cycle undergo apoptosis. TNF induces caspase activity in both settings, and the broad spectrum caspase inhibitor zVAD-fmk inhibits this activity and blocks both TNF-induced apoptosis and necrosis. Inhibition of oxygen radical accumulation does not block cytotoxicity. The presence and activation of specific caspases were examined by Western blotting. The procaspase-8a isoform was down-regulated in proliferating cells. Procaspases-8b and -7 were cleaved during TNF-induced apoptosis but not necrosis. Thus, a different pattern of caspase expression and activation occurs dependent on the cell cycle and which may determine the mode of cell death.
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