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J. Cell Biol.,
Volume 141, Number 5, June 1, 1998 1255-1266
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* Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, E1B 19K, the adenovirus Bcl-2 homologue,
is a potent inhibitor of apoptosis induced by various
stimuli including Fas and tumor necrosis factor-
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and § Cancer Institute
of New Jersey, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
. Fas
and TNFR-1 belong to a family of cytokine-activated receptors that share key components in their signaling
pathways, Fas-associating protein with death domain
(FADD) and FADD-like interleukin-1
-converting
enzyme (FLICE), to induce an apoptotic response. We
demonstrate here that E1B 19K and Bcl-xL are able to
inhibit apoptosis induced by FADD, but not FLICE.
Surprisingly, apoptosis was abrogated by E1B 19K and
Bcl-xL when FADD and FLICE were coexpressed. Immunofluorescence studies demonstrated that FADD
expression produced large insoluble death effector filaments that may represent oligomerized FADD. E1B
19K expression disrupted FADD filament formation
causing FADD and FLICE to relocalize to membrane
and cytoskeletal structures where E1B 19K is normally localized. E1B 19K, however, does not detectably bind
to FADD, nor does it inhibit FADD and FLICE from
being recruited to the death-inducing signaling complex
(DISC) when Fas is stimulated. Thus, E1B 19K may inhibit Fas-mediated cell death downstream of FADD recruitment of FLICE but upstream of FLICE activation
by disrupting FADD oligomerization and sequestering
an essential component of the DISC.
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