Nuclear Factor-kB/Rel Is Apoptogenic in Cytokine Withdrawal-induced Programmed Cell Death
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In the complex microenvironment where they evolve, developing cells undergo rapid programmed cell death (PCD) when cytokines that support them become limiting. The transcriptional mechanisms of cytokine-withdrawal apoptosis are poorly understood. In this report, we used early B-lymphocyte tissue culture and transgenic cells to demonstrate that nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) promotes apoptosis during cytokine withdrawal-induced PCD. In the progenitor B lymphocyte model FL5.12, whereas NF-kB has an antiapoptotic function in response to tumor necrosis factor-a, cytokine withdrawal causes nuclear translocation of NF-kB/cRel, where it is apoptogenic. Inhibition of NF-kB activation delays cytokine withdrawal-induced PCD in both FL5.12 and transgenic early B cells. Additionally, reconstituting a bone marrow microenvironment ex vivo abrogates the differential apoptotic pattern between control and transgenic early B cells.
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Nuclear factor-kappaB/Rel is apoptogenic in cytokine withdrawal-induced programmed cell death.
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