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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 38, 35097-35104, September 20, 2002

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Head Involution Defective (Hid)-triggered Apoptosis Requires Caspase-8 but Not FADD (Fas-associated Death Domain) and Is Regulated by Erk in Mammalian Cells^*

Jishy Varghese, Hadassah Sade, Peter Vandenabeele^§, and Apurva Sarin^¶

From the  National Centre for Biological Sciences, UAS-GKVK Campus, Bangalore 560065, Karnataka, India and ^§ Molecular Signalling and Cell Death Unit, Department of Molecular Biology, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

The molecular machinery of apoptosis is evolutionarily conserved with some exceptions. One such example is the Drosophila proapoptotic gene Head involution defective (Hid), whose mammalian homologue is not known. Hid is apoptotic to mammalian cells, and we have examined the mechanism by which Hid induces death. We demonstrate for the first time a role for the extracellular signal-related kinase-1/2 (Erk-1/2) in the regulation of Hid function in mammalian cells. Bcl-2 and an inhibitor of caspase-9 blocked apoptosis, indicative of a role for the mitochondrion in this pathway, and we provide evidence for a role for caspase-8 in Hid-induced apoptosis. Thus, apoptosis was blocked by an inhibitor of caspase-8, deletion of caspase-8 rendered cells resistant to Hid-induced apoptosis, and Hid associated with caspase-8 in cell lysates. The Fas-associated death domain (FADD) was dispensable for the apoptotic function of Hid, indicating that Hid does not require extracellular death receptor signaling for the activation of caspase-8. In activated T cells, the cytokine interleukin-2 blocked caspase-8 processing and apoptosis, suggesting that survival cues from trophic factors may target a Hid-like intermediate present in mammalian cells. Thus, this study shows that Hid engages with conserved components of cellular death machinery and suggests that apoptotic paradigms characterized by FADD-independent activation of caspase-8 may involve a Hid-like molecule in mammalian cells.

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