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1. Reactive oxygen species, heat stress and oxidative-induced mitochondrial damage. A review

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Taha Najar, Manef Abdrabbah, Abdeljelil Ghram, Moncef Ben Mrad, Imen Belhadj Slimen, Hajer Dabbebi, Preparatory Institute for Scientific and Technical Studies [La Marsa] (IPEST), Université de Carthage - University of Carthage, Institut National Agronomique de Tunis (INAT), Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de Recherche Scientifique [Tunisie], Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), and The authors thank Gillian Murphy, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge, for her assistance and help with English editing of this paper.

Subjects
Cancer Research, Antioxidant, MESH: Oxidative Stress, Physiology, Cellular respiration, medicine.medical_treatment, Apoptosis, Oxidative phosphorylation, Mitochondrion, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, reactive oxygen species (ROS), DNA, Mitochondrial, MESH: Lipid Peroxidation, heat stress, Electron Transport, Physiology (medical), medicine, Humans, MESH: Electron Transport, chemistry.chemical_classification, MESH: DNA Damage, Reactive oxygen species, MESH: Humans, MESH: Apoptosis, MESH: DNA, Mitochondrial, Metabolism, MESH: Heat-Shock Response, mitochondria, Oxidative Stress, chemistry, Biochemistry, MESH: Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism, Lipid Peroxidation, Reactive Oxygen Species, Oxidative stress, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Heat-Shock Response, DNA Damage
Abstract

International audience; In recent years there has been enormous interest in researching oxidative stress. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are derived from the metabolism of oxygen as by-products of cell respiration, and are continuously produced in all aerobic organisms. Oxidative stress occurs as a consequence of an imbalance between ROS production and the available antioxidant defence against them. Nowadays, a variety of diseases and degenerative processes such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases are mediated by oxidative stress. Heat stress was suggested to be an environmental factor responsible for stimulating ROS production because of similarities in responses observed following heat stress compared with that occurring following exposure to oxidative stress. This manuscript describes the main mitochondrial sources of ROS and the antioxidant defences involved to prevent oxidative damage in all the mitochondrial compartments. It also deals with discussions concerning the cytotoxic effect of heat stress, mitochondrial heat-induced alterations, as well as heat shock protein (HSP) expression as a defence mechanism.

Published
2014

2. Direct activation of caspase 8 by the proapoptotic E2 protein of HPV18 independent of adaptor proteins

Author

Caroline Demeret, Françoise Thierry, Expression Génétique et Maladies (EGM), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This work was supported by the Pasteur Institute, CNRS, Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC) and La Ligue Contre le Cancer., We thank Moshe Yaniv and Jonathan Weitzman for critical reading of the paper. We thank Richard Siegel, Marcus Peter, Visha Dixit and Richard Kitsis for providing expression plasmids., and Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cytoplasm, Death fold, Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein, Caspase 2, Caspase 3, Apoptosis, Biology, Caspase 8, Protein Structure, Secondary, Cell Line, 03 medical and health sciences, Viral Proteins, Humans, FADD, Molecular Biology, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, NLRP1, 030302 biochemistry & molecular biology, Cell Biology, Oncogene Proteins, Viral, Cell biology, Enzyme Activation, Death-inducing signaling complex, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, biology.protein, Caspase 10
Abstract

International audience; The self-activation of initiator caspases is dependent on their oligomerization driven by interaction with the death fold domains (DFD) of adaptor proteins. Here, we show that the E2 protein of human papillomavirus type 18 triggers apoptosis by assembling cytoplasmic filaments together with caspase 8, in which its efficient self-activation occurs. The E2 protein binds directly to the death effector domains (DED) of caspase 8 through non-DFD interaction. This interaction is independent of FADD, but it can cooperate with FADD homotypic binding to caspase 8 to induce its oligomerization; hence cell death, while it is antagonized by competitive binding of MC159 FLICE inhibitory protein. The amino-terminal domain of E2 contains a 27 amino-acid a-helix, which is necessary and sufficient to induce caspase oligomerization and cell death. Our results provide evidence for adaptor-independent oligomerization of caspase 8, mediated by non-DFD direct interactions with the HPV18 E2 protein, thus deciphering a new pathway for caspase 8 activation.

Published
2008