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ArticleCell death & disease2016

Activation of TNFR2 sensitizes macrophages for TNFR1-mediated necroptosis.

Daniela Siegmund, Juliane Kums, Martin Ehrenschwender, Harald Wajant

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniela SiegmundDivision of Molecular Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, Würzburg 97070, Germany.
Juliane KumsDivision of Molecular Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, Würzburg 97070, Germany.
Martin EhrenschwenderInstitute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, Regensburg 93053, Germany.
Harald WajantDivision of Molecular Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, Würzburg 97070, Germany.
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg · DEUniversity Hospital Regensburg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macrophages express TNFR1 as well as TNFR2 and are also major producers of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), especially upon contact with pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Consequently, TNF not only acts as a macrophage-derived effector molecule but also regulates the activity and viability of macrophages. Here, we investigated the individual contribution of TNFR1 and TNFR2 to TNF-induced cell death in macrophages. Exclusive stimulation of TNFR1 showed no cytotoxic effect whereas selective stimulation of TNFR2 displayed mild cytotoxicity. Intriguingly, the latter was strongly enhanced by the caspase inhibitor zVAD-fmk. The strong cytotoxic activity of TNFR2 in the presence of zVAD-fmk was reversed by necrostatin-1, indicating necroptotic cell death. TNFR1- and TNF-deficient macrophages turned out to be resistant against TNFR2-induced cell death. In addition, the cIAP-depleting SMAC mimetic BV6 also enforced TNF/TNFR1-mediated necroptotic cell death in the presence of zVAD-fmk. In sum, our data suggest a model in which TNFR2 sensitizes macrophages for endogenous TNF-induced TNFR1-mediated necroptosis by the known ability of TNFR2 to interfere with the survival activity of TRAF2-cIAP1/2 complexes.

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ApoptosisAmino Acid Chloromethyl KetonesAnimalsAutocrine CommunicationCell SurvivalLipopolysaccharidesMacrophagesMice, Inbred C57BLMyeloid Progenitor CellsNecrosisOligopeptidesReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type IReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type IIToll-Like Receptor 3Toll-Like Receptor 4Tumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAmino Acid Chloromethyl Ketonesbenzyloxycarbonylvalyl-alanyl-aspartyl fluoromethyl ketoneBV6 peptideLipopolysaccharidesOligopeptidesReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type IReceptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type IIToll-Like Receptor 3Toll-Like Receptor 4Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID27899821
PMCPMC5059883
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