Protein Information

Name caspase (protein family or complex)
Synonyms caspase; caspases

Compound Information

Name sodium azide
CAS sodium azide

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
12954857 Garnier P, Ying W, Swanson RA: Ischemic preconditioning by caspase cleavage of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1. J Neurosci. 2003 Sep 3;23(22):7967-73.

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10764744 Bai J, Cederbaum AI: Overexpression of catalase in the mitochondrial or cytosolic compartment increases sensitivity of HepG2 cells to tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced apoptosis. J Biol Chem. 2000 Jun 23;275(25):19241-9.

Sodium azide, an inhibitor of catalase, reduced the increased sensitivity of mC5 and C33 cells to TNF-alpha to the level of toxicity found with control Hp cells.
A pan-caspase inhibitor prevented the TNF-alpha-induced apoptosis and toxicity produced by catalase overexpression.
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18782624 Otsu K, Sato K, Sato M, Ono H, Ohba Y, Katagata Y: Impaired activation of caspase cascade during cell death induced by newly synthesized singlet oxygen generator, 1-buthylnaphthalene-4-propionate endoperoxide. Cell Biol Int. 2008 Nov;32(11):1380-7. Epub 2008 Aug 20.

The cytotoxic effect of BNPE was attenuated by alpha-tocopherol but not by sodium azide.
Caspase activity in a soluble protein fraction were inhibited similarly by the above three endoperoxides.
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11195789 Kositprapa C, Zhang B, Berger S, Canty JM Jr, Lee TC: Calpain-mediated proteolytic cleavage of troponin I induced by hypoxia or metabolic inhibition in cultured neonatal cardiomyocytes. Mol Cell Biochem. 2000 Nov;214(1-2):47-55.


Inhibitors of caspases, on the other hand, suppressed cell injury caused by p53 overexpression.
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10797567 Chan WH, Yu JS: Inhibition of UV irradiation-induced oxidative stress and apoptotic biochemical changes in human epidermal carcinoma A431 cells by genistein. J Cell Biochem. 2000 Apr;78(1):73-84.


Ultraviolet (UV) light is a strong apoptotic trigger that can induce a caspase-dependent biochemical change in cells.
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19919184 Veerman EC, Valentijn-Benz M, van't Hof W, Nazmi K, van Marle J, Amerongen AV: Phytosphingosine kills Candida albicans by disrupting its cell membrane. . Biol Chem. 2010 Jan;391(1):65-71.


Previously, it has been reported that the fungicidal activity of PHS is based on the induction of caspase-independent apoptosis.
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10879632 Kumi-Diaka J, Butler A: Caspase-3 protease activation during the process of genistein-induced apoptosis in TM4 testicular cells. Biol Cell. 2000 Apr;92(2):115-24.

Caspase-3 enzymatic activity was determined using CasPASE Apoptosis Assay Kit.
The overall results from all the data demonstrated that: i) genistein exerts dose- and time-dependent effects on TM4 testis cells; ii) apoptosis is induced by lower concentrations of genistein and necrosis induced by higher concentrations of genistein; iii) genistein induced activation caspase-3 enzymatic activity; iv) genistein-induction of apoptosis and necrosis was significantly inhibited by the caspase-3 inhibitor, z-DEV-FMK; v) sodium azide induced necrosis without activation of CPP32 enzymatic activity, and induction of apoptosis; and vi) genistein-induced apoptosis was associated with activation of CPP32 enzymatic activity in the cells.
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10707086 Goldstein JC, Waterhouse NJ, Juin P, Evan GI, Green DR: The coordinate release of cytochrome c during apoptosis is rapid, complete and kinetically invariant. Nat Cell Biol. 2000 Mar;2(3):156-62.


Release of cytochrome c from mitochondria triggers activation of caspase proteases and death of a cell by apoptosis.
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10693948 Kaal EC, Vlug AS, Versleijen MW, Kuilman M, Joosten EA, Bar PR: Chronic mitochondrial inhibition induces selective motoneuron death in vitro: a new model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurochem. 2000 Mar;74(3):1158-65.

We could reproduce this dose-dependent phenomenon with the complex IV inhibitor sodium azide.
Furthermore, the caspase inhibitors N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp-fluoromethyl ketone and z-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-fluoromethyl ketone were both protective against malonate toxicity.
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15082229 Cho S, Liu D, Fairman D, Li P, Jenkins L, McGonigle P, Wood A: Spatiotemporal evidence of apoptosis-mediated ischemic injury in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures. Neurochem Int. 2004 Jul;45(1):117-27.


In order to ascertain the existence of the synaptic pool of glutamate, sister cultures were treated with sodium azide.
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