Regulation of apoptosis in myeloid cells by interferon consensus sequence-binding protein. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Mice with a null mutation of the gene encoding interferon consensus sequence-binding protein (ICSBP) develop a disease with marked expansion of granulocytes and macrophages that frequently progresses to a fatal blast crisis, thus resembling human chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). One important feature of CML is decreased responsiveness of myeloid cells to apoptotic stimuli. Here we show that myeloid cells from mice deficient in ICSBP exhibit reduced spontaneous apoptosis and a significant decrease in sensitivity to apoptosis induced by DNA damage. In contrast, apoptosis in thymocytes from ICSBP-deficient mice is unaffected. We also show that overexpression of ICSBP in the human U937 monocytic cell line enhances the rate of spontaneous apoptosis and the sensitivity to apoptosis induced by etoposide, lipopolysaccharide plus ATP, or rapamycin. Programmed cell death induced by etoposide was specifically blocked by peptides inhibitory for the caspase-1 or caspase-3 subfamilies of caspases. Studies of proapoptotic genes showed that cells overexpressing ICSBP have enhanced expression of caspase-3 precursor protein. In addition, analyses of antiapoptotic genes showed that overexpression of ICSBP results in decreased expression of Bcl-X(L). These data suggest that ICSBP modulates survival of myeloid cells by regulating expression of apoptosis-related genes.

publication date

  • August 2, 1999

Research

keywords

  • Apoptosis
  • Consensus Sequence
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • Interferons
  • Repressor Proteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2195590

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0033517157

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1084/jem.190.3.411

PubMed ID

  • 10430629

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 190

issue

  • 3