PMID- 24318359 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141204 LR - 20220317 IS - 1949-2553 (Electronic) IS - 1949-2553 (Linking) VI - 5 IP - 1 DP - 2014 Jan 15 TI - A TRAF2 binding independent region of TNFR2 is responsible for TRAF2 depletion and enhancement of cytotoxicity driven by TNFR1. PG - 224-36 AB - Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) interacts with two receptors known as TNFR1 and TNFR2. TNFR1 activation may result in either cell proliferation or cell death. TNFR2 activates Nuclear Factor-kappaB (NF-kB) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) which lead to transcriptional activation of genes related to cell proliferation and survival. This depends on the binding of TNF Receptor Associated Factor 2 (TRAF2) to the receptor. TNFR2 also induces TRAF2 degradation. In this work we have investigated the structural features of TNFR2 responsible for inducing TRAF2 degradation and have studied the biological consequences of this activity. We show that when TNFR1 and TNFR2 are co-expressed, TRAF2 depletion leads to an enhanced TNFR1 cytotoxicity which correlates with the inhibition of NF-kB. NF-kB activation and TRAF2 degradation depend of different regions of the receptor since TNFR2 mutants at amino acids 343-349 fail to induce TRAF2 degradation and have lost their ability to enhance TNFR1-mediated cell death but are still able to activate NF-kB. Moreover, whereas NF-kB activation requires TRAF2 binding to the receptor, TRAF2 degradation appears independent of TRAF2 binding. Thus, TNFR2 mutants unable to bind TRAF2 are still able to induce its degradation and to enhance TNFR1-mediated cytotoxicity. To test further this receptor crosstalk we have developed a system stably expressing in cells carrying only endogenous TNFR1 the chimeric receptor RANK-TNFR2, formed by the extracellular region of RANK (Receptor activator of NF-kB) and the intracellular region of TNFR2.This has made possible to study independently the signals triggered by TNFR1 and TNFR2. In these cells TNFR1 is selectively activated by soluble TNF (sTNF) while RANK-TNFR2 is selectively activated by RANKL. Treatment of these cells with sTNF and RANKL leads to an enhanced cytotoxicity. FAU - Cabal-Hierro, Lucia AU - Cabal-Hierro L AD - Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular and Instituto Universitario de Oncologia del Principado de Asturias (IUOPA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. FAU - Artime, Noelia AU - Artime N FAU - Iglesias, Julian AU - Iglesias J FAU - Prado, Miguel A AU - Prado MA FAU - Ugarte-Gil, Lorea AU - Ugarte-Gil L FAU - Casado, Pedro AU - Casado P FAU - Fernandez-Garcia, Belen AU - Fernandez-Garcia B FAU - Darnay, Bryant G AU - Darnay BG FAU - Lazo, Pedro S AU - Lazo PS LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Oncotarget JT - Oncotarget JID - 101532965 RN - 0 (Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I) RN - 0 (Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type II) RN - 0 (TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 2) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis/physiology MH - Cell Growth Processes/physiology MH - Cell Line MH - Fibroblasts MH - HEK293 Cells MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I/*metabolism MH - Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type II/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction MH - TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 2/*metabolism MH - Transfection PMC - PMC3960203 EDAT- 2013/12/10 06:00 MHDA- 2014/12/15 06:00 PMCR- 2014/01/01 CRDT- 2013/12/10 06:00 PHST- 2013/12/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/12/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/12/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1492 [pii] AID - 10.18632/oncotarget.1492 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Oncotarget. 2014 Jan 15;5(1):224-36. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.1492.