Apoptosis and stress - Stress

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Apoptosis can be induced by different kinds of stress

  • Chemical stress: damage essential molecules
  • Physical stress: UV-radiation, X-radiation, heat
  • Physiological stress: low oxygen, metabolic misbalance, low pH
  • Pathological stress: fever, infections, reperfusion, cancer

DNA damage and replication stress

  1. Signals: DNA damage/replication stress
  2. Transductors
  3. Effectors: cell cycle transition, apoptosis, transcription, DNA repair

Proto-oncogenes can be inhibitors of apoptosis

  • Translocation of BCL2, causing B-cell lymphoma
  • BCL-2 gene is translocated into a gene of the heavy chain of Ig, a strong promoter.
  • B-cells produce a lot of antibodies, so high expression of BCL-2
  • Have to be killed by BH3-only protein BIM, avoiding apoptosis
  • Because of protection by BCL-2
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Functional domains of p53

  • TAD: required for transcriptional activation
  • PRD: enables protein-protein interactions
  • DBD: specifically binds to DNA consensus recognition elements in the promoters of target genes
  • Tetramerization domain (4D)
  • CTD: binds DNA nonspecifically and might regulate specific DNA binding by the DBD
  • Nuclear localization signal (L): located between DBD and 4D
  • Nuclear export signal (E): embedded in 4D

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