Korean J Phys Anthropol.
2000 Mar;13(1):119-128.
The Effect of Protein Kinase C Pretreatment on Gliotoxin Induced Apoptosis in H9c2 Cells
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- 1Department of Anatomy, Wonkwang University, Korea.
- 2Department of Microbiology, Wonkwang University, Korea.
- 3Department of internal medicine School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Korea.
- 4Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Graduate School, Wonkwang University, Korea.
Abstract
- Aspergillus funigatus and other pathogenic fungi synthesize a toxic epidithi- odiopiperzine (ETP) metabolite called gliotoxin. Gliotoxin is an epidithiodiopiperzine compound which can both react with sulfhydryl groups and form hydrogen peroxide. The fungal toxin gliotoxin induces apoptotic cell death in a variety of cells. Apoptosis induced by gliotoxin need calcium but effect of calcium preconditioning is unknown by gliotoxin. We studied the effect of protein kinase C and calcium preconditioning on gliotoxin-induced apoptosis in H9c2 cell. PKC and calcium preconditiong inhibited DNA fragmentation by gliotoxin. From this above results suggest that gliotoxin induce apoptosis via caspase-3 activation, because caspase-3 inhibitor (DEVD-CHO) didn't induce apoptosis in gliotoxin treated H9c2 clls. Calcium and PKC preconditioning inhibit caspase-3 activation by gliotoxin. These data means that PKC preconditioning is related with caspase-3 regulate in gliotoxin-induced apoptosis.
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