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The heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has a critical role in malignant transformation. Whereas its ability to maintain the functional conformations of mutant and aberrant oncoproteins is established, a transformation-specific regulation of the antiapoptotic phenotype by Hsp90 is poorly understood. By using selective compounds, we have discovered that small-cell lung carcinoma is a distinctive cellular system in which apoptosis is mainly regulated by Hsp90. Unlike the well-characterized antiapoptotic chaperone Hsp70, Hsp90 is not a general inhibitor of apoptosis, but it assumes this role in systems such as small-cell lung carcinoma, in which apoptosis is uniquely dependent on and effected through the intrinsic pathway, without involvement of caspase elements upstream of mitochondria or alternate pathways that are not apoptosome- channeled. These results provide important evidence for a transformation- specific interplay between chaperones in regulating apoptosis in malignant cells. © 2007 Nature Publishing Group. |
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unclassified drug; doxorubicin; nonhuman; antineoplastic agents; gemcitabine; topotecan; apoptosis; etoposide; lung neoplasms; dose-response relationship, drug; drug screening assays, antitumor; caspase inhibitor; cell line, tumor; drug design; time factors; carcinogenesis; cell transformation, neoplastic; lung small cell cancer; gene expression regulation, neoplastic; quercetin; breast carcinoma; mitoxantrone; 1-phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; daunorubicin; 8 (6 iodobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol 5 ylthio) 9 [3 (isopropylamino)propyl] 9h purin 6 amine; heat shock protein 90 inhibitor; heat shock protein 90; hsp90 heat-shock proteins; epirubicin; heat shock protein 70; cell strain mcf 7; mitochondrion; models, chemical; carcinoma, small cell; geldanamycin; radicicol; cycloproparadicicol; lactone derivative; puh 58; puh 71; 17 allylamino 17 demethoxygeldanamycin; 17 dimethylaminoethylamino 17 demethoxygeldanamycin; 8 (2 chloro 3,4,5 trimethoxybenzyl) 2 fluoro 9 (pent 4 ynyl) 9h purin 6 amine; 8 (6 bromobenzo[d][13]dioxol 5 ylthio) 9 (pent 4 ynyl) 9h purin 6 amine; benzyloxycarbonylleucylglutamylhistidylaspartyl fluoromethyl ketone; caspase 9 inhibitor; heat shock protein 70 inhibitor; knk 437; macrolactone derivative; mal 3 101; menogaril; pu 24fci
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