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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 143, Issue 6 1790-1794, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists
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H Kizaki, T Tadakuma, C Odaka, J Muramatsu and Y Ishimura
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Calcium ionophore, A23187, is known to be a comitogen, but it activates a suicide process characterized by DNA fragmentation at linker regions in mouse immature thymocytes. It did not induce DNA fragmentation in T lymphocytes prepared from lymph node and spleen cells. Induction of DNA fragmentation by A23187 depends on protein phosphorylation and synthesis of mRNA and protein, because an inhibitor of protein kinase, 1-(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-2-methyl-piperazine dihydrochloride (H-7), actinomycin D, and cycloheximide, respectively, inhibits the DNA fragmentation and cell death. Studies adding the inhibitors at various times show that protein phosphorylation and mRNA synthesis occur within a few hours after incubation with A23187 followed by the protein synthesis responsible for inducing DNA fragmentation. Phorbol esters, 12-O-tetradecanoyl 13-acetate (TPA) and phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PBD), which are capable of activating protein kinase C, also induced similar DNA fragmentation in immature thymocytes, followed by cell death. PBD committed the suicide process after 6 h of incubation, because the DNA fragmentation above the control level was not induced when PDB was removed from the medium before 6 h of incubation. A23187 or a phorbol ester alone induced DNA fragmentation followed by cell death, whereas the addition of TPA at low concentration inhibited the DNA fragmentation induced by A23187 accompanied with an increase in DNA synthesis. The result suggests that TPA switched a suicide process induced by A23187 to an opposite process: stimulation of DNA synthesis. Physiologic factors and mechanisms which regulate cell proliferation and death in the thymus are not known at present, but the signals by protein kinases and calcium ions may regulate both cell proliferation and death, independently, synergistically or antagonistically.
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