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Key Words: T cell receptor • proliferation • apoptosis • protease • inhibitor
Cysteine proteases of the IL-1β–converting enzyme (ICE) family (caspases) are critical executioners of apoptosis in several mammalian cell death pathways 1. At present, 14 human and murine caspases have been isolated, and the exact role of each one during apoptosis has yet to be fully characterized. Caspases are synthesized as inactive precursors that require proteolytic conversion to become active proteases. For instance, during apoptosis triggered by TCR cross-linking in T lymphocytes, the 32-kD caspase-3 proenzyme is first cleaved to release fragments of 12 and 20 kD. Removal of the 3-kD propeptide from the p20 generates the p17 form associated with caspase-3 activity and apoptosis 23. Caspase-3 cleavage also occurs in vivo during negative selection of thymocytes through TCR signaling, where only the p17 is detected 45. This mechanism prevails in a wide variety of cellular systems, and is triggered upon induction of apoptosis by several exogenous stimuli 1.
The current model suggests that after apoptotic stimulation, activation of "upstream" caspases containing a large prodomain such as caspase-8, -2, or -9 leads to the proteolytic cleavage of "downstream" caspases (caspase-3, -6, and -7), which mediate the apoptotic response 16. Another caspase subfamily including caspase-1, -5, -11, -12, and -13 is essentially involved in cytokine maturation, and does not seem to play a critical role during apoptosis. Caspase activity results in the cleavage of several cellular proteins, which leads to the apoptotic response (for a review, see reference 7). These substrates include structural proteins such as gelsolin 8, proteins involved in DNA repair, such as poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) 29 or DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK 10), and proteins involved in cell cycle regulation, such as the 140-kD subunit of replication factor C (RFC140 [11]), mouse double minute 2 (MDM2 12), or the cell division control 2 (Cdc2) kinase Wee1 13. A critical substrate for caspase-3 during apoptosis is the 45-kD subunit of DNA fragmentation factor (DFF45) that once cleaved by caspase-3 activates DNA fragmentation by releasing the caspase-activated DNase 141516.
Surprisingly, caspase-3 processing and activity have been observed in the absence of apoptosis after polyclonal activation of PBMCs, and in the absence of DNA fragmentation 1718. However, there is no evidence yet for a role of caspases during T cell activation, and a recent report suggested that the observed caspase processing was due to the production of granzyme B by CD8+ activated cells and artifactual release during cell lysis of PBMCs 19. Interestingly, such a role for caspases in T cell activation is indirectly supported by several recent observations. Indeed, interference with pathways leading to caspase processing, as in Fas-associated death domain protein (FADD) knockout, FADD dominant negative, or Bcl-2 transgenic mice, results in impaired mature T cell proliferation 20212223. Moreover, overexpression of Bcl-2 also delays the reentry of resting NIH 3T3 cells into cell cycle 24. These data suggest that inactivation of pathways leading to caspase activity results in reduced cell cycle progression in primary T lymphocytes and in cell lines.
In this study, we have investigated whether caspase processing was a physiological response after TCR triggering. We show that a caspase inhibitor blocks T cell activation, that caspase-3 and other downstream caspases are processed in stimulated lymphocytes, and that a selective cleavage of caspase substrates occurs in viable and proliferating cells. These results show that caspase activation is a physiological response to TCR triggering, and indicate that this enzymatic cascade is not only involved in induction of cell death, but might also be involved in the early steps leading to lymphocyte proliferation.
PBMC Isolation and Proliferation Assay.
Flow Cytometry.
Staining for in vivo caspase activity was performed using the cell-permeable substrate Phiphilux-G1D2 (OncoImmunin, Inc.) containing the consensus sequence DEVDG. In brief, resting or activated cells were washed, then incubated with the substrate (10 µM final) for 1 h at 37°C, followed by another wash with the dilution buffer, according to the manufacturer's instructions. Fluorescence was monitored using the FL1 detector of an EPICS® XL flow cytometer (Coulter Corp.), and gates were set on living and either resting or blastic cells before analysis. For each sample, 3 x 104 events were collected.
Western Blotting.
Immunoprecipitation and Affinity Blot.
Fas Treatment.
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The broad spectrum benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz)-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethylketone (zVAD), the caspase-3–like Cbz-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethylketone (zDEVD) or caspase-8–like Cbz-Ileu-Glu-Thr-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethylketone (zIETD) caspase inhibitors, and the biotinylated zVAD were purchased from Enzyme Systems Products. IL-2 was obtained from the National Institutes of Health AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program, and PHA from Murex Diagnostics. Staphylococcus aureus Cowan fixed cells (SAC) were purchased from Calbiochem. Rabbit antiserum against caspase-3 was generated as described previously 5. The anti–caspase-8 and anti-DFF45 antisera are rabbit polyclonal antibodies generated in the laboratory against the p18 of caspase-8 and the full-length DFF45, respectively. The anti-PARP antiserum, a second anti–caspase-8 serum, the anti-lamin B, and anti-Fas (M3) mAbs were gifts from Dr. G. Poirier (Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval, Québec, Canada), Dr. M.E. Peter (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany), Dr. R. Bertrand (Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal), and Dr. D. Lynch (Immunex Corp., Seattle, WA), respectively. Dr. D.W. Nicholson (Merck Frosst, Kirkland, Canada) provided antisera against caspase-1, -6, -7, and -9. The mAbs against caspase-2, caspase-4, and Wee1 were purchased from Transduction Laboratories, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, and StressGen Biotechnologies Corp., respectively. The anti-CD3 was produced and purified from the OKT3 clone (American Type Culture Collection).
PBMCs were purified by Ficoll-Hypaque and resuspended in 10% FCS-RPMI medium (GIBCO BRL). To monitor proliferation, 105 cells were cultured for 1–4 d at 37°C in 96-well plates in the absence or presence of 1 µg/ml anti-CD3, anti-TCR (BMA031; Immunotech), or PHA and 20 U/ml recombinant human IL-2. For B cell stimulation, PBMCs were cultured in the presence of SAC (1:104 vol/vol). 3H-labeled thymidine (1 µCi/well) was added during the last 6 h for each time point. Cells were harvested, and DNA-associated radioactivity was counted by liquid scintillation (BetaplateTM; Wallac) and expressed as a mean cpm ± SEM of triplicate cultures.
Cell staining for T cell activation markers was performed on PBMCs activated as described for 4 d, and using anti-CD69, anti-CD25 (Becton Dickinson), or anti–HLA-DR (Caltag Laboratories) antibodies. Cell sorting was performed after 4 d of stimulation with 1 µg/ml anti-CD3 and 20 U/ml IL-2, using PBMCs stained with annexin V (AV)-FITC (BIODESIGN International). Living (AV–) and dying or dead cells (AV+) were sorted using a FACStarTM (Becton Dickinson) after gating on lymphocytes on the basis of forward/side scatter. Purified lymphocyte subsets from treated PBMCs were obtained by cell sorting after staining with anti-CD4, anti-CD8, anti-CD19 (Becton Dickinson), or anti-CD45RO and anti-CD45RA (Serotec Ltd.) antibodies. For T cell subset sorting, dead cells were gated out on the basis of forward/side scatter, and the purity of sorted T cell subsets was >99%. For each sample, 104 events were collected using the FACScanTM flow cytometer.
Treated cells were washed with PBS, and pellets were resuspended in sample buffer (62.5 mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 6 M urea, 10% glycerol, 2% SDS, 0.00125% bromophenol, 5% 2-ME) and boiled for 3 min. Proteins from 0.5–1 x 106 cells were separated on SDS-PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membrane (Hybond C Super; Amersham). Blots were blocked for 1 h at room temperature in PBS, 0.05% Tween, containing 5% nonfat dried milk, washed, and incubated with the different antibodies. Detection was achieved with the appropriate secondary antibodies coupled to horseradish peroxidase (HRP), followed by enhanced chemiluminescence ECL Western blotting kit (NEN), and visualized by autoradiography.
Proteins from PBMCs (5 x 106 cells), stimulated with 1 µg/ml PHA and 20 U/ml IL-2 for 4 d, were extracted in lysis buffer (2% NP-40, 0.5% deoxycholic acid, 50 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 50 mM NaF, 10 mM NaH2PO4, 2 mM EGTA, 10 mM EDTA, 0.5 mM Na3VO4). Cell lysates were incubated with 5 µM of biotinylated zVAD-fmk and subjected or not to immunoprecipitation using the caspase-3 antiserum. Protein G–Sepharose-coupled beads (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) were preincubated for 30 min at 4°C with 10 µl of anti–caspase-3 antiserum. After three washes with lysis buffer, the beads were added to total cell lysates for a 2-h incubation at 4°C with gentle agitation. The beads were then washed three times with lysis buffer and boiled for 5 min in 50 µl of Laemmli buffer. Whole cell lysates or immunoprecipitated proteins were loaded on polyacrylamide gels for electrophoresis and transferred to Hybond C membranes. Blots were blocked overnight at 4°C with PBS, Tween 0.05% supplemented with BSA (3%) and nonfat dry milk (2%), and revealed after incubation with HRP-conjugated extravidin (Extra-HRP, 1:2,000; Sigma Chemical Co.) for 1 h at room temperature for affinity blot, or with anti–caspase-3 antiserum for Western blot as described above.
Jurkat cells or PBMCs stimulated for 4 d with anti-CD3 antibody and IL-2 were incubated at 106 cells/well in 24-well plates coated or not with anti-Fas (M3) mAb. Coating was performed for 2 h at 37°C using 20 µg/ml of antibody in 0.05 M Tris, pH 9.3. After 4 h (Jurkat cells) or 6 h (PBMCs) of incubation on coated plates, cells were washed with PBS, and the pellet was kept at –80°C until Western blot analysis. An aliquot of stimulated cells was used for AV staining as described previously 11.
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The Caspase Inhibitor zVAD Blocks Anti-CD3–induced T Cell Activation.
Several reports have demonstrated a costimulatory function of TNF receptor (TNFR) family members, such as Fas and TNFR, which are also associated with apoptosis through activation of the caspase cascade 252627. Whether caspases play a role in the costimulatory function of TNFR family members has yet to be demonstrated, although caspase-3 processing has been reported after T cell stimulation 17. To determine whether caspase-3 activation was involved in the response to TCR triggering, we used the broad spectrum caspase inhibitor zVAD 451128. Stimulation of PBMCs with anti-CD3 antibody and IL-2 in the presence of zVAD resulted in a dose-dependent and reproducible inhibition of T cell proliferation (76.3 ± 7.7% inhibition at day 4 with 100 µM of zVAD, n = 8 [Fig. 1 A]) and a 2.6-fold decrease in the percentage of cells in S phase after 4 d of stimulation, as assessed by DNA content analysis using propidium iodide (PI) staining (data not shown). Similar results were obtained using zIETD, an inhibitor of caspase-8–like members, or the caspase-3–like protease inhibitor zDEVD (inhibition of >50% of the proliferation with 100 µM in three independent experiments; data not shown).
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chain of the high-affinity IL-2 receptor) and CD95 upregulation remained comparable in the presence or absence of zVAD (Fig. 1 D, and data not shown). Since an excess of IL-2 is added at the onset of T cell activation, and since the expression of CD25 is maintained in the presence of zVAD, it appears that the caspase inhibitor does not block T cell proliferation by interfering with the IL-2–IL-2R autocrine loop. As illustrated in Fig. 1 D, the lack of effect of zVAD on the de novo expression of CD69 and CD25, and the fact that Jurkat cell proliferation was not affected by addition of zVAD (data not shown) further confirm that zVAD effect on T cell proliferation cannot be attributed to a general cytostatic effect.
Engagement of CD3 on PBMCs induces the production of cytokines by monocytes such as IL-1β and IFN-
inducible factor (IGIF)/IL-18, which in turn will enhance T cell activation 2930. Since production of these cytokines is dependent on caspase-1 (ICE) activity 3132, inhibition of T cell proliferation by zVAD could be due to a lower level of costimulatory cytokines produced by monocytes. To exclude this possibility, purified T cells (>95% TCR+) were stimulated with anti-CD3 and IL-2 in the presence of zVAD. Proliferation of these T cells triggered by anti-CD3 and IL-2 was also blocked by the caspase inhibitor (Fig. 1 E), confirming that zVAD was directly inhibiting T cell activation, and not accessory cell function. Taken together, these results show that inhibition of caspase activity resulted in defective T cell activation and impaired proliferation after TCR triggering of resting T cells.
Early Processing of Caspase-3 during Activation of Resting Lymphocytes.
To rule out the possibility that caspase-3 processing induced by TCR triggering resulted from a lysis artifact 19, anti-CD3–activated PBMCs were boiled directly in Laemmli buffer containing 2% SDS, 5% mercaptoethanol, and 8 M urea, and cell lysates were subjected to Western blot analysis. Even under these denaturing conditions, caspase-3 proenzyme was reproducibly found (n = 10) completely processed into protein species ranging from 24 to 17 kD after TCR triggering of PBMCs (Fig. 2). These species included the 17-kD form previously associated to the induction of apoptosis 2345 and a doublet migrating at 
20 kD. Processing of caspase-3 occurred as early as day 1 after TCR stimulation and before the detection of DNA synthesis (Fig. 2 A). None of these bands was observed in resting T cells. The same caspase-3 pattern was also obtained after anti-TCR or PHA/IL-2 stimulation (data not shown), confirming previous results 17. A role for granzyme B in the processing of caspase-3 during cell lysis was excluded by using the same denaturing lysis buffer in all experiments.
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Activation of caspase-3 was also assessed in intact cells using the cell-permeable caspase substrate Phiphilux, containing the caspase-3 consensus sequence GDEVDGI 34. Fluorescence of resting or stimulated PBMCs was compared by flow cytometry after staining in the presence of the substrate. Fig. 2 E shows that Phiphilux was cleaved in T cells 4 d after anti-CD3 stimulation. Similar results were also obtained as early as 2 d of stimulation, in which a 4.7-fold increase in mean fluorescence intensity was observed (mean fluorescence intensity of 27.3 vs. 5.8 for resting cells). Interestingly, induction of apoptosis by anti-Fas antibody did not result in increased Phiphilux cleavage in activated PBMCs (Fig. 2 E), suggesting that caspase activity was already elevated in proliferating cells. Therefore, caspase-3 cleavage in stimulated lymphocytes corresponded to activation of the proenzyme.
The complex pattern of caspase-3 subunits suggested that they could originate from several proenzyme species observed in nonstimulated cells (Fig. 2 B), or from different cell subsets. To distinguish between these two possibilities, sorting of CD4+, CD8+, CD45RO+, and CD45RA+ cells was performed on viable, blastic cells. Processing of caspase-3 was similar in both CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets and occurred not only in CD45RO+, but also in the remaining CD45RA+/CD25+ cells (Fig. 3a and Fig. b), further confirming that caspase activation was an early event after TCR triggering. When PBMCs were stimulated for 4 d with the B cell mitogen SAC, and B lymphocytes were purified by CD19+ cell sorting, caspase-3 cleavage was observed in sorted, viable cells and resulted in the production of the 20-kD doublet and the 17-kD large subunit as in activated T lymphocytes (Fig. 3 C). These results indicate that caspase-3 processing occurs in several T cell subsets and in activated B cells.
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To ensure that Wee1 and PARP cleavage resulted from caspase activity, fresh PBMCs were stimulated with anti-CD3 antibody and IL-2 in the absence or presence of 100 µM of zVAD. Western blot analysis of cell lysates shows that Wee1 cleavage to a 60-kD fragment and the appearance of the 85-kD form of PARP were both inhibited by zVAD (Fig. 7 A). Interestingly, addition of zVAD, which inhibited T cell proliferation, also reduced caspase-3 processing (Fig. 7 A), further supporting a correlation between caspase-3 activation and cell cycle entry. The caspase-6 substrate lamin B 7 was also analyzed by Western blot in lysates of activated lymphocytes, and a zVAD-sensitive cleavage generating a 28- and a 35-kD fragment was observed in stimulated cells (Fig. 7 A), further confirming that caspase-6 was active in these cells. As published previously, cleavage of RFC140 was detectable in activated PBMCs only after anti-Fas treatment 11. To ensure that this was also the case for DFF45, anti-CD3–stimulated PBMCs were incubated for 6 h on anti-Fas–coated plates at 37°C and subjected to Western blot analysis using anti-DFF45 antiserum. This treatment resulted in a decrease of living, AV– cells from 65 to 20% (Fig. 7 B). Western blot analysis demonstrated that the 14-kD fragment of DFF45 was only detectable in lysates of apoptotic cells. Therefore, caspase activity observed in proliferating T cells resulted in selective substrate specificity, different from the one observed during T cell apoptosis.
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To ensure that cleavage of other caspases or substrates also occurred in nonapoptotic cells, PBMCs stimulated for 2 d (to further limit the proportion of apoptotic cells) with anti-CD3 antibody were stained with AV-FITC, and after gating on blasts, AV– cells were sorted by flow cytometry. Extracts from 5 x 105 cells were prepared from resting, unsorted PBMCs or activated, AV– sorted cells, and proteins were analyzed by Western blot using antibodies against caspase-6, caspase-7, PARP, and Wee1. As a control for dead cell contamination, these extracts were also analyzed for DFF45 cleavage. Fig. 8 B shows that both caspases, as well as PARP and DFF45, were not cleaved in resting cells (lane 1), whereas Wee1 was not detected. After TCR cross-linking, caspase-6– and caspase-7–cleaved subunits were detected in AV– sorted cells (lane 2), as well as the PARP 85-kD cleaved form and the 66-, 32-, and 34-kD fragments of Wee1. In these extracts, DFF45 was not processed, excluding a potential contamination by dead cells. Altogether, these results clearly indicate that a selective caspase substrate cleavage occurs in viable T lymphocytes activated through the TCR.
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Death receptors such as TNFR and Fas can act as costimulatory molecules and enhance T cell proliferation 252627. We have also observed that a soluble form of TNFR significantly inhibited T cell proliferation induced by anti-CD3 antibody (our unpublished results). Cross-linking of these death receptors triggers the FADD-dependent recruitment of caspase-8, which is processed and can directly mediate the activation of caspase-3, -6, and -7 by proteolytic cleavage 3637. Our results show that caspase-8 is processed after T cell stimulation (as early as 16 h after TCR cross-linking), and activates caspase-3, -6, and –7, leading to a selective cleavage of their substrates. Interestingly, addition of the caspase-8 inhibitor zIETD during T cell stimulation inhibited >60% of the proliferation (data not shown), which further confirms that caspase-8 activity is involved in cell cycle entry of activated lymphocytes. The fact that activation of the whole caspase cascade occurs in proliferating, viable (AV–) cells indicates that caspases could be the executioners in the costimulatory function of members of the TNFR family. In support of this hypothesis, impaired T cell proliferation is also observed in FADD-deficient and in FADD dominant negative transgenic mice 202122, suggesting a potential role for caspases in the early events leading to cell division. Caspase processing in stimulated cells appears to be mediated mostly through the activation of caspase-8 associated to death receptor. The other pathway of downstream caspase activation involves caspase-9, which is triggered after the release in the cytosol of mitochondrial cytochrome c 3839. However, we have found that in stimulated T cells this caspase remains as a proenzyme.
Bcl-2 and other antiapoptotic members of the family have been shown to block caspase activation after several apoptotic stimuli 43. However, Bcl-2 is also endowed with the ability to influence cell cycle progression. Indeed, Bcl-2 overexpression in transgenic mice was reported to decrease cell cycle entry of primary lymphocytes 23. Transfection of Bcl-2 into NIH 3T3 cells also delayed their reentry into cell cycle after serum withdrawal, and a tyrosine 28 mutant in the NH2-terminal BH4 domain exhibited dominant negative effects over the wild-type Bcl-2 24. Whether the effect of Bcl-2 on cell cycle progression also involves regulation of caspase activity remains to be addressed. However, these data associated with our results showing the inhibitory effect of zVAD on DNA synthesis suggest that caspases (along with their upstream regulators FADD and Bcl-2) may be involved in cell cycle entry during lymphocyte activation.
Results presented in this study clearly demonstrate a selective processing of caspase substrates. PARP, which is involved in DNA repair 44, is probably processed in apoptotic cells to allow for DNA fragmentation after DFF45 cleavage. Of note, PARP expression and activity increase after T cell stimulation 41. Therefore, the 85-kD fragment of PARP probably conserves an enzymatic activity that mediates an unknown function in proliferating cells. Our results also demonstrate the selective processing of Wee1. This tyrosine kinase is a negative regulator of Cdc2 45, a cyclin-dependent kinase required for the G2/M transition during cell cycle, as well as for Fas-mediated apoptosis in immortalized cell lines 13. Wee1 is a critical component of the G2/M cell cycle checkpoint machinery, and mediates cell cycle arrest after DNA damage by phosphorylation of Cdc2 45. Therefore, cleavage of Wee1 in proliferating lymphocytes could lead to its inactivation, thus allowing cell cycle progression. Of note, Wee1 processing by caspases during apoptosis in Jurkat cells correlates with a 20-fold decrease in Wee1 activity and an increase in Cdc2 activity 13. The nuclear protein lamin B is considered as a caspase-6 substrate 7. Our results show that in fresh PBMCs, two forms of 66 and 45 kD can be identified by Western blot using an anti–lamin B antibody, and at least two fragments of 35 and 28 kD are produced after T cell activation. Appearance of these products correlates with a decrease in the amount of the 45-kD form of lamin B, and is inhibited by addition of zVAD (Fig. 7 A). Although the significance of this cleavage in activated lymphocytes is unclear, it confirms the activation of caspase-6, which generates the 28-kD fragment after a cleavage at the consensus sequence VEID 7.
In our experiments, DFF45 is present in resting as well as in proliferating cells, whereas RFC140 is upregulated after T cell stimulation. Since caspase-mediated DFF45 processing leads to DNA fragmentation, one could easily predict that it would not be cleaved in activated living cells. Indeed, we were unable to detect DFF45 cleavage in AV– cells after T cell activation, although the 14-kD fragment generated by caspase-3 cleavage at the second site was observed in lysate from activated lymphocytes after anti-Fas treatment. The lack of RFC140 cleavage in proliferating T cells was also critical, since processing of RFC140 by caspases leads to inactivation of the DNA replication machinery and cell cycle arrest at the G2/M boundary 11. This selective substrate processing could explain why T lymphocytes survive and proliferate although the caspase cascade including caspase-8, -3, -6, and -7 is activated after TCR triggering. To explain this selective caspase specificity in stimulated lymphocytes, several hypotheses can be proposed. Endogenous caspase inhibitors, such as the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) family members, could selectively inhibit the cleavage of specific substrates in stimulated cells 46. Supporting this hypothesis, the expression of thymic IAP, a murine homologue of survivin, is upregulated within 24 h of stimulation in splenic T cells 47, and this member of the IAP family was shown to inhibit already processed caspase-3, -7, and -9 46. Association of thymic IAP to caspases could have a differential effect on the cleavage of their substrates, depending on the affinity of the caspase for these substrates or their accessibility. Alternatively, some caspase substrates involved in cell survival could be protected against cleavage by phosphorylation near the caspase cleavage site. This mechanism was recently demonstrated for presenilin-2. Caspase-mediated cleavage of this molecule was abrogated by Ser327 and Ser330 phosphorylation inside the consensus cleavage site DSYD
S 48.
In summary, activation of the caspase cascade in nonapoptotic lymphocytes, together with the impairment of T cell activation by caspase inhibitors, indicates that these proteases may play an important role during T cell stimulation, and caspases may be added to the growing list of molecules that are involved in cell death and proliferation. However, elucidation of the function of caspase processing in activated lymphocytes will require further experiments and will provide new insights into the biological function of caspases, as well as the regulation of T cell activation.
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This work was supported by grants from the Medical Research Council of Canada to R.-P. Sékaly (MRC Industry grant UI12373), and R.P. Sékaly holds an MRC Scientist Award.
Submitted: 17 March 1998
Revised: 23 September 1999
Accepted: 27 September 1999
Abbreviations used in this paper: AV, annexin V; Cdc2, cell division control 2; DFF45, the 45-kd subunit of DNA fragmentation factor; Extra-HRP, HRP–conjugated extravidin; FADD, Fas-associated death domain protein; HRP, horseradish peroxidase; IAP, inhibitor of apoptosis; PARP, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase; PI, propidium iodide; RFC140, the 140-kD subunit of replication factor C; SAC, Staphylococcus aureus Cowan cell extracts; zVAD, benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz)-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethylketone.
A. Alam and L.Y. Cohen contributed equally to this work.
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