title: A mechanism for death receptor discrimination by death adaptors.
abstract: The death domain and death effector domain are two common motifs that mediate protein-protein interactions between components of cell death signaling complexes. The mechanism by which these domains engage their binding partners has been explored by extensive mutagenesis of two death adaptors, FADD and TRADD, suggesting that a death adaptor can discriminate its intended binding partners from other proteins harboring similar motifs. Death adaptors are found to utilize one of two topologically conserved surfaces for protein-protein interaction, whether that partner is another adaptor or its cognate receptor. These surfaces are topologically related to the interaction between death domains observed in the x-ray crystal structure of the Drosophila adaptor Tube bound to Pelle kinase. Comparing the topology of protein-protein interactions for FADD complexes to TRADD complexes reveals that FADD uses a Tube-like surface in each of its death motifs to engage either CD95 or TRADD. TRADD reverses these roles, employing a Pelle-like surface to interact with either receptor TNFR1 or adaptor FADD. Since death adaptors display a Tube-like or Pelle-like preference for engaging their binding partners, Tube/Pelle-like pairing provides a mechanism for death adaptor discrimination of death receptors.
authors: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
authors: Cristinel
authors: C
authors: Sandu
authors: Evripidis
authors: E
authors: Gavathiotis
authors: Ted
authors: T
authors: Huang
authors: Iga
authors: I
authors: Wegorzewska
authors: Milton H
authors: MH
authors: Werner
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D053200:Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein; D006801:Humans; D019169:Jurkat Cells; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000502:physiology; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D018124:Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D047988:Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Peptides and Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D019014:fas Receptor / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; C505533:FADD protein, human; D053200:Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein; D018124:Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor; D047988:Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Peptides and Proteins; D019014:fas Receptor