Enzymatically active single chain caspase-8 maintains T-cell survival during clonal expansion
Open Access
- 4 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cell Death & Differentiation
- Vol. 18 (1), 90-98
- https://doi.org/10.1038/cdd.2010.69
Abstract
The extrinsic, or death receptor, pathway integrates apoptotic signals through the protease caspase-8 (casp8). Beyond cell death regulation, non-apoptotic functions of casp8 include its essential requirement for hematopoiesis and lymphocyte clonal expansion, and tempering of autophagy in T cells. However, the mechanistic basis for the control of these disparate cellular processes remains elusive. Here, we show that casp8-deficient T-cell survival was rescued by enzymatically active, but not inactive, casp8-expressing retroviruses. The casp8 catalytic induction in proliferating T cell occurred independent of extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic-signaling cascades and did not induce casp8 proteolytic processing. Using a biotinylated probe selectively targeting enzymatically active caspases, catalytically active full-length casp8 was found in vivo in dividing T cells. A casp8 D387A processing mutant was able to rescue casp8-deficient T-cell proliferation, validating that casp8 self-processing is not required for its non-apoptotic function(s). Finally, casp8 activity was highest in CD8+ T cells, the most rapidly proliferating subset. These results show that the catalytically competent form of casp8 is required for rapid T-cell proliferation in response to TCR ligation, but that processing of the caspase is only necessary to promote apoptosis.Keywords
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