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    Interleukin-1 beta-converting enzyme-like protease cleaves DNA-dependent protein kinase in cytotoxic T cell killing

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    Song, QZ; Burrows, SR; Smith, G; LeesMiller, SP; Kumar, S; Chan, DW; Trapani, JA; Alnemri, E; Litwack, G; Lu, H; ...
    Date
    1996-08-01
    Source Title
    Journal of Experimental Medicine
    Publisher
    ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Trapani, Joseph
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    Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
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    Journal Article
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    Song, Q. Z., Burrows, S. R., Smith, G., LeesMiller, S. P., Kumar, S., Chan, D. W., Trapani, J. A., Alnemri, E., Litwack, G., Lu, H., Moss, D. J., Jackson, S. & Lavin, M. F. (1996). Interleukin-1 beta-converting enzyme-like protease cleaves DNA-dependent protein kinase in cytotoxic T cell killing. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, 184 (2), pp.619-626. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.184.2.619.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/257827
    DOI
    10.1084/jem.184.2.619
    Abstract
    Cytotoxic T cells (CTL) represent the major defense mechanism against the spread of virus infection. It is believed that the pore-forming protein, perforin, facilitates the entry of a series of serine proteases (particularly granzyme B) into the target cell which ultimately leads to DNA fragmentation and apoptosis. We demonstrate here that during CTL-mediated cytolysis the catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs), an enzyme implicated in the repair of double strand breaks in DNA, is specifically cleaved by an interleukin (IL)-1 beta-converting enzyme (ICE)-like protease. A serine protease inhibitor, 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin (DCl), which is known to block granzyme B activity, inhibited CTL-induced apoptosis and prevented the degradation of DNA-PKcs in cells but failed to prevent the degradation of purified DNA-PKcs by CTL extracts. However, Tyr-Val-Ala-Asp-CH2Cl (YVAD-CMK) and other cysteine protease inhibitors prevented the degradation of purified DNA-PKcs by CTL extracts. Furthermore, incubation of DNA-PKcs with granzyme B did not produce the same cleavage pattern observed in cells undergoing apoptosis and when this substrate was incubated with either CTL extracts or the ICE-like protease, CPP32. Sequence analysis revealed that the cleavage site in DNA-PKcs during CTL killing was the same as that when this substrate was exposed to CPP32. This study demonstrates for the first time that the cleavage of DNA-PKcs in this intact cell system is exclusively due to an ICE-like protease.

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