Effect of IRAK1 on Apoptosis and Necroptosis of Hepatoma Cell Line SK-Hep1 ()
ABSTRACT
Interleukin I receptor associated kinase 1 (IRAK1)
is a downstream signal molecule of activated MyD88 recruitment, which can
activate Fas associated death domain protein (FADD) to induce apoptosis. IRAK1
can also activate tumor necrosis factor-related factor 6 (TRAF6) and induce the
expression of a series of downstream specific genes. IRAK1 is an essential
factor in the induction of mitochondrial division and necroptosis. In the
current study, RNAi technique was used to silence IRAK1, and the apoptosis and necroptosis
rate of SK-Hep1 cells were detected by flow cytometry. The apoptosis and the
necroptosis pathway of hepatoma SK-Hep1 cells were blocked separately, and the
expressions of FADD, RIP1 and TRAF6 genes were silenced separately. The results showed when the expression of
IRAK1 was down-regulated, the apoptosis and necroptosis rate of SK-Hep1
cells were significantly increased. With silenced FADD, RIP1 and TRAF6,
respectively, the expression of IRAK1 protein had no significant change.
However, the expression of IRAK1 mRNA decreased significantly (p < 0.01)
after the silencing of RIP1 and TRAF6 genes, while the IRAK1 mRNA did not
change significantly after the silencing of FADD genes; when z-VAD-FMK was
interfered, the expression of IRAK1 mRNA decreased significantly after the
silencing of TRAF6 genes, while the IRAK1 mRNA did not change significantly
after the silencing of FADD and RIP1genes. The study shows that RAK1 gene
inhibits apoptosis and necroptosis in SK-Hep1 cells. TRAF6 gene affected the
role of IRAK1 in apoptosis and necroptosis, RIP1 gene affected the role of
IRAK1 in apoptosis, while FADD gene did not affect the role of IRAK1 in
apoptosis and necroptosis.
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Pan, Z. , Zhang, X. , Qian, C. , Liu, X. and Jin, X. (2019) Effect of IRAK1 on Apoptosis and Necroptosis of Hepatoma Cell Line SK-Hep1.
Chinese Medicine,
10, 19-29. doi:
10.4236/cm.2019.101003.
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