Early processing of Bid and caspase-6, -8, -10, -14 in the canine brain during cardiac arrest and resuscitation.
Krajewska, Maryla a,1; Rosenthal, Robert E. b,1; Mikolajczyk, Jowita a; Stennicke, Henning R. a,c; Wiesenthal, Thomas a; Mai, Juergen a,d; Naito, Mikihiko e; Salvesen, Guy S. a; Reed, John C. a; Fiskum, Gary *,f; Krajewski, Stan *,a
[Article]
Experimental Neurology.
189(2):261-279, October 2004.
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: A clinically relevant model of transient global brain ischemia involving cardiac arrest followed by resuscitation in dogs was utilized to study the expression and proteolytic processing of apoptosis-regulatory proteins. In the hippocampus, an increase in pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins Bcl-XS and Bak was detected, concomitant with proteolysis of Bcl-XL and Bcl-2, following ischemia-reperfusion injury. Also, biphasic cleavage of Bid was found in this region of the brain, with early generation of tBid-p11 within 10 min of cardiac arrest, followed by generation of tBid-p15 within 30-min reperfusion, consistent with activation of this pro-apoptotic protein. In addition, cardiac arrest and resuscitation induced early, reperfusion-dependent proteolytic processing of pro-caspase-6, -8, -10, and -14, which preceded caspase-3 activation. Immunohistochemical analysis using antibodies, which preferentially recognize processed caspase-3, -6, -8, and -10, provided evidence of time-dependent activation of these proteases in both neurons and glia in ischemia-sensitive regions of the brain.
In conclusion, extremely rapid, cell-selective processing of apoptosis-regulatory proteins occurs in a clinically relevant model of ischemic brain injury caused by cardiac arrest and resuscitation. The early cleavage of Bid and rapid depletion of 32-kDa pro-caspase-14 from the canine hippocampus after induction of ischemia suggests the involvement of calpains in the processing of these proteins. Demonstration of in vitro cleavage of recombinant mouse caspase-14 by calpain I in the present study lends support to this hypothesis, further implicating cross-talk between different protease families in the pathophysiology of ischemic neural cell death.
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