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1 Department of Genome Sciences, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
2 Department of Molecular Pathology, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-0934, Japan
3 Department of Nutrition Management, Hyogo University, Kakogawa 675-0101, Japan
4 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Pathology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki 701-0192, Japan
To investigate the mechanism of B cell receptor (BCR)-mediated apoptosis, we utilized immature B cell lines, DT40 and WEHI-231. In both cell lines, BCR-crosslinking caused the increase in lysosomal pH with early apoptotic changes characterized by chromatin condensation and phosphatidylserine exposure. This increase was detected in c-Abl-deficient DT40 cells but not in Syk-deficient cells, which corresponded to the fact that the former cells but not the latter revealed BCR-induced apoptosis. In contrast, BCR-crosslinking caused no apparent change in mitochondrial transmembrane potential. Therefore, the lysosomal change might be a primary event in BCR-induced apoptosis in DT40 cells. The increased activity of cathepsin B and apoptosis-preventing effect of a cathepsin inhibitor suggested a significant role of lysosomal enzymes in this apoptosis. By microscopic studies, lysosomes of wild-type DT40 cells fused to BCR-carrying endosomes became enlarged and accumulated one another. In contrast, these changes of lysosomal dynamics did not occur in Syk-deficient cells but transfer of wild-type Syk restored the lysosomal changes and apoptosis. These results demonstrated that the lysosomal change accompanied with the activation of lysosomal enzymes is a primary step in BCR-crosslinking-mediated apoptosis and Syk is responsible for this step through the fusion of BCR-carrying endosomes to lysosomes.
* Correspondence: E-mail: yamamura{at}kobe-u.ac.jp
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