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Session X : Cell death in cancer Poster X, 75<br />

The essential role of the mitochondria-dependent death <strong>signaling</strong> cascade in<br />

chemotherapy-induced potentiation of Apo2L/TRAIL cytotoxicity in cultured thoracic<br />

cancer cells: Amplified caspase 8 is indispensable for combination-mediated massive<br />

cell death.<br />

Dao M. Nguyen, Wen-Shuz Yeow, Rishindra M. Reddy, M. Firdos Ziauddin, Wilson<br />

Tsai, David S. Schrump.<br />

Section of Thoracic Oncology, Surgery Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National<br />

Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Email address:<br />

dao_nguyen@nih.gov<br />

Chemotherapeutic drugs, regardless of their mechanism of action, sensitize cancer cells to<br />

Apo2L/TRAIL cytotoxicity in vitro <strong>and</strong> in vivo animal model. The molecular basis of this<br />

effect is diverse, ranging from modulation of the DISC activity to phenotypic alteration of the<br />

levels of anti-/pro-apoptotic proteins. We hypothesized that chemotherapeutic drugs, by<br />

altering the pro-apoptotic threshold of mitochondria, synergize with Apo2L/TRAIL to<br />

promote cytotoxicity via recruitment of the type II caspase activation cascade. Cisplatin,<br />

Paclitaxel, histone deacetylase inhibitors Trichostatin A or Valproic acid all sensitize multiple<br />

cultured thoracic cancer cells to Apo2L/TRAIL. Combining individual chemotherapeutics (at<br />

sublethal concentrations) with Apo2L/TRAIL results in 2- to >20-fold enhancement of<br />

cellular sensitivity to this lig<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> massive synergistic induction of apoptosis (

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