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Papers In Press, published online ahead of print October 24, 2001
J. Biol. Chem, 10.1074/jbc.M108419200
Submitted on August 31, 2001
Revised on October 24, 2001
Accepted on October 24, 2001

Lack of correlation between caspase activation and caspase activity assays in paclitaxel-treated MCF-7 breast cancer cells

Timothy J. Kottke, April L. Blajeski, Xue Wei Meng, Phyllis A. Svingen, Sandrine Ruchaud, Peter W. Mesner, Scott A. Boerner, Kumiko Samejima, Nicholas V. Henriquez, Tamie J. Chilcote, Janet Lord, Michael Salmon, William C. Earnshaw, and Scott H. Kaufmann

Oncology Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905

Corresponding Author: Kaufmann.Scott{at}Mayo.edu

SUMMARY MCF-7 human breast cancer cells are widely utilized to study apoptotic processes. Recent studies demonstrated that these cells lack procaspase-3. In the present study, caspase activation and activity was examined in this cell line after treatment with the microtubule poison paclitaxel. When cells were harvested 72 h after the start of a 24 h treatment with 100 nM paclitaxel, 37 ± 5 % of the cells were nonadherent and displayed apoptotic morphological changes. Although mitochondrial cytochrome c release and caspase-9 cleavage were detectable by immunoblotting, assays of cytosol and nuclei prepared from the apoptotic cells failed to demonstrate the presence of activity that cleaved the synthetic caspase substrates LEHD-AFC, DEVD-AFC and VEID-AFC. Likewise, the paclitaxel-treated MCF-7 cells failed to cleave a variety of caspase substrates, including lamin A, b-catenin, gelsolin, protein kinase Cd, topoisomerase I and procaspases-6, 8 and 10. Transfection of MCF-7 cells with wildtype procaspase-3 partially restored cleavage of these polypeptides but did not result in detectable activities that could cleave the synthetic caspase substrates. Immunoblotting revealed that caspases-9, and -3, which were proteolytically cleaved in paclitaxel-treated MCF-7/caspase-3 cells, were sequestered in a sedimentable fraction rather than released to the cytosol. These observations suggest that sequestration and inhibition of caspases can occur in some model systems, causing tetrapeptide-based activity assays to underestimate the amount of caspase activation that has occurred in situ.


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