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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 27, 18857-18863, July 2, 1999

Activated Ha-ras Induces Apoptosis by Association with Phosphorylated Bcl-2 in a Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase-independent Manner

Paloma Navarro, Angela M. Valverde, Manuel Benito, and Margarita Lorenzo

From the Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Serum deprivation of Ha-ras-transformed brown adipocyte cell line resulted in a dramatic apoptotic cell death, as detected either by DNA laddering or by an increase in the percentage of hypodiploid cells or by nuclei condensation and fragmentation, as compared with immortalized cell line or primary fetal brown adipocytes. Moreover, transient transfection of immortalized brown adipocytes with a constitutively active ras gene (Ha-raslys12) mimics the high rate of apoptosis detected in the transformed cell line. On the other hand, transient transfection of the dominant-negative construct of raf-1 rescued serum-deprived Ha-ras-transformed brown adipocytes from apoptosis, decreasing the percentage of hypodiploid cells, the external display of phosphatidylserine, and the DNA laddering. However, inhibition of mitogen-activated protein kinase with PD098059 did not preclude apoptosis and in fact increased the rate of apoptosis observed in serum-deprived Ha-ras-transformed cells, indicating that the Ras/Raf-1 pathway induced apoptosis throughout a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1 (MEK-1)-independent pathway. Furthermore, apoptosis in Ha-ras-transformed brown adipocytes is concurrent with an up-regulation in the expression of the pro-apoptotic protein Bcl-xS, the expression of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 being down-regulated. Finally, an association of Ras and Raf with phosphorylated Bcl-2 protein was demonstrated in immunoprecipitates from apoptotic cells. Thus, we propose a mechanism of apoptosis in Ha-ras-transformed adipocytes under serum deprivation involving Raf-1 association with phosphorylated Bcl-2, down-regulation of Bcl-2 expression, and up-regulation of Bcl-xS expression.

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