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A role of reactive oxygen species in apoptotic activation of volume-sensitive Cl- channel Export

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 101, No. 17. (27 April 2004), pp. 6770-6773.

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10.1073/pnas.0401604101 Apoptotic volume decrease is a pivotal event triggering a cell to undergo apoptosis and is induced by ionic effluxes resulting mainly from increased K and Cl conductances. Here, we demonstrate that in human epithelia HeLa cells both mitochondrion- and death receptor-mediated apoptosis inducers [staurosporine and Fas ligand or tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α] rapidly activate Cl currents that show properties phenotypical of volume-sensitive outwardly rectifying Cl channel currents, including outward rectification, voltage-dependent inactivation gating at large positive potentials, inhibition by osmotic shrinkage, sensitivity to classic Cl channel blockers, and dependence on cytosolic ATP. Staurosporine, but not Fas ligand or TNF-α, rapidly (within 30 min) increased the intracellular level of reactive oxygen species (ROS). A ROS scavenger and an NAD(P)H oxidase inhibitor blocked the current activation by staurosporine but not by Fas ligand or TNF-α. A ROS scavenger also inhibited apoptotic volume decrease, caspase-3 activation, and apoptotic cell death induced by staurosporine. Thus, it is concluded that an apoptosis-triggering anion conductance is carried by the volume-sensitive outwardly rectifying Cl channel and that the channel activation on apoptotic stimulation with staurosporine, but not with Fas ligand or TNF-α, is mediated by ROS.


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