Induction of Apoptosis by Enediyne Antibiotic Calicheamicin 0II
Oncogene (2003) 22, 9107–9120 & 2003 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0950-9232/03 $25.00 www.nature.com/onc ORIGINAL PAPERS Induction of apoptosis by enediyne antibiotic calicheamicin 0II proceeds through a caspase-mediated mitochondrial amplification loop in an entirely Bax-dependent manner Aram Prokop1,4, Wolf Wrasidlo2,4, Holger Lode2, Ralf Herold1, Florian Lang3,5,Gu¨ nter Henze1, Bernd Do¨ rken3, Thomas Wieder3,5,6 and Peter T Daniel*,3,6 1Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, University Medical Center Charite´, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 13353, Germany; 2Department of General Pediatrics, University Medical Center Charite´, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 13353, Germany; 3Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology, University Medical Center Charite´, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 13125, Germany Calicheamicin 0II is a member of the enediyne class of Keywords: calicheamicin; apoptosis; caspase-3; Bax; antitumor antibiotics that bind to DNA and induce Bcl-2; cytochrome c; mitochondria; BJAB; Jurkat; apoptosis. These compounds differ, however, from con- HCT116 ventional anticancer drugs as they bind in a sequence- specific manner noncovalently to DNA and cause sequence-selective oxidation of deoxyriboses and bending of the DNA helix. Calicheamicin is clinically employed as Introduction immunoconjugate to antibodies directed against, for example, CD33 in the case of gemtuzumab ozogamicin. In contrast to necrosis, apoptosis is a morphologically Here, we show by the use of the unconjugated drug that and biochemically defined form of cell death that plays a calicheamicin-induced apoptosis is independent from role under different physiological conditions, such as death-receptor/FADD-mediated signals. Moreover, cali- cell turnover, the immune response or embryonic cheamicin triggers apoptosis in a p53-independent manner development.
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