Apoptosis: Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis Are Crucial To Development
Apoptosis: Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis Are Crucial To Development
Apoptosis: Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis Are Crucial To Development
-Mechanical damage
-Internal signals
-External signals
Apoptosis or programmed cell death, is
carefully coordinated collapse of cell, protein
degradation , DNA fragmentation followed
by rapid engulfment of apoptotic vesicles by
neighbouring cells.
Essential part of life for every multicellular
organism .
Apoptosis plays a major role from
embryonic development to senescence.
Why should a cell commit suicide?
Apoptosis is needed for proper development
Examples:
–The formation of the fingers and toes of the fetus
–The sloughing off of the inner lining of the uterus
–Maintenance of proper cell number in tissues,
–The formation of the proper connections between neurons in the
brain.
Apoptosis is needed to destroy cells
Examples:
–Cells infected with viruses
–Cells of the immune system
–Cells with DNA damage
–Cancer cells
Why should a cell commit suicide?
A form of apoptosis is a normal part of embryonic
development. For example, the development of the
nervous system uses apoptosis to destroy neurons that
have not made the proper connections with target cells.
Neurons are produced in excess, and more than 50% of
developing neurons are eliminated by programmed cell
death. Those neurons that have made the correct
connections survive by secreting growth factors that
block apoptosis.
Necrosis vs. Apoptosis
Necrosis Apoptosis
• Cellular swelling • Cellular condensation
• Membranes are broken • Membranes remain intact
• ATP is depleted • Requires ATP
• Cell lyses, eliciting an • Cell is phagocytosed, no
inflammatory reaction tissue reaction
• DNA fragmentation is • Ladder-like DNA
random, or smeared fragmentation
• In vivo, whole areas of • In vivo, individual cells
the tissue are affected appear affected
NECROSIS Vs APOPTOSIS
Wilde, 1999
APOPTOSIS: Morphological events
cell shrinkage
organelle reduction
mitochondrial leakage
chromatin condensation
nuclear fragmentation
membrane blebbing & changes
Blebbing & Apoptotic bodies
The control retained over the cell
Bleb membrane & cytoskeleton allows intact
pieces of the cell to separate for
recognition & phagocytosis .
Apoptotic body
M M
Apoptosis can be initiated by several stimuli:
- by injury, radiation, free radicals or other toxins,
- withdrawal of growth factors or hormones,
- binding of pro-apoptotic cytokines,
- or interactions with cytotoxic T cells in the
immune system.
- Apoptosis can protect organisms from the
negative effect of mutations by destroying cells
with irreparably damaged DNA before they
proliferate.
Effector
“Intrinsic Pathway”
Caspase 3 Cell
death
DNA da Initiator
mage Mitochondria/
& p53 Cytochrome C Caspase 9
1- Extrinsically or Receptor-
mediated apoptosis results from the
interaction of a ligand with a specific
transmembrane receptor, the most important
are the Fas receptor and tumor necrosis factor
receptor (TNFR).
FasL
Apoptosis TNF
Fas TNF-R1
Mit
TRADD
FADD Cyt c
Cas8
Caseff Protein degradation
• Deficient apoptosis
– Cancer
– Autoimmunity
Apoptosis signal to kill infected cells
Cytolytic lymphocyte/CTL (& natural killer lymphocyte)
presents Fas ligand/CD178 on its surface to tell the infected
cell to die
Fas ligand
CTL Virally
infected Externally driven
Apoptotic signals
cell
Cytochrome c
Initiator caspases
The immunological
synapse holds the cells
much tighter together
Execution caspases
than shown here
Apoptosis events
Fas/ CD95 is the
‘death receptor’