Cardiolipin provides an essential activating platform for caspase-8 on mitochondria
Open Access
- 10 November 2008
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 183 (4), 681-696
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200803129
Abstract
Cardiolipin is a mitochondria-specific phospholipid known to be intimately involved with apoptosis. However, the lack of appropriate cellular models to date restricted analysis of its role in cell death. The maturation of cardiolipin requires the transacylase tafazzin, which is mutated in the human disorder Barth syndrome. Using Barth syndrome patient-derived cells and HeLa cells in which tafazzin was knocked down, we show that cardiolipin is required for apoptosis in the type II mitochondria-dependent response to Fas stimulation. Cardiolipin provides an anchor and activating platform for caspase-8 translocation to, and embedding in, the mitochondrial membrane, where it oligomerizes and is further activated, steps that are necessary for an efficient type II apoptotic response.Keywords
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