An increase in protease activity was shown in thymus nuclei of rats exposed to gamma-radiation. The activation of histone-specific proteases depended on the duration of postradiation period. Also, it was revealed that incubation of thymus nuclear with the intermembrane fraction of liver mitochondria caused degradation of histones and nonhistone nuclear proteins, as well as internucleosomal fragmentation of DNA. Simultaneously, nuclear proteases tightly bound to histones and specifically cleaving histones were observed to be activated by apoptogenic factors of the mitochondrial intermembrane fraction. Probably, the apoptogenic action of gamma-radiation involves not only a direct DNA damage that induces activation of DNA-dependent proteases but also an indirect component: destructive alterations in mitochondria leading to the exit of apoptogenic factors from the intermembrane space.
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