EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. The ability of metazoan cells to undergo programmed cell death is vital to both the precise development and long term survival of the mature adult. Cell deaths that result from engagement of the program result in apoptosis - the ordered dismantling of the cell that results in its 'silent' demise, coordinated by members of the caspase family of cysteine protease. Based on our initial discovery that the human protein X-linked IAP (XIAP) inhibits caspases-3 and -7, it is now clear that several caspases vital to the execution phase of apoptosis are under the regulation of distinct members of the IAP family. We hypothesize that IAPs set the threshold that must be exceeded for apoptosis to be executed, and that this may be a cell-specific mechanism for regulating the onset of the apoptotic catastrophe. The IAPs, are broadly distributed in organisms ranging from viruses to yeast to man. As their name indicates the founding members are capable of selectively blocking apoptosis, having initially been identified in baculoviruses. By now several of the viral, fly and mammalian IAPs have been demonstrated to inhibit caspases. But some cannot be caspase inhibitors, since yeast at least do not contain caspases. Therefore there are growing suggestions that IAPs may have functions other than caspase inhibition. In this application we propose to delineate the importance of key human IAPs to caspase regulation, and to investigate newly identified regulatory mechanism(s) of the IAPs themselves. Specifically, we hypothesize that: (1) IAPs function as built in regulators of the death pathway through their inhibition of caspases, and (2) specific modifications to IAPs control the functional amount of activity available for caspase regulation. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AG015402-08
Application #
6934479
Study Section
Cell Development and Function Integrated Review Group (CDF)
Program Officer
Sierra, Felipe
Project Start
1998-06-15
Project End
2006-08-31
Budget Start
2005-09-01
Budget End
2006-08-31
Support Year
8
Fiscal Year
2005
Total Cost
$384,000
Indirect Cost
Name
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
020520466
City
La Jolla
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
92037
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