title: Nonapoptotic functions of FADD-binding death receptors and their signaling molecules.
abstract: Death receptors (DRs) are surface receptors that when triggered have the capacity to induce apoptosis in cells by forming the death-inducing signaling complex (DISC). The first protein recruited to form the DISC is the adaptor protein FADD/Mort1. Some members of the DR family, CD95 and the TRAIL receptors DR4 and DR5, directly bind FADD, whereas others, such as TNF receptor I and DR3, initially bind another adaptor protein, TRADD, which then recruits FADD. While all DRs can activate both apoptotic and non-apoptotic pathways, it has been widely assumed that the main physiological role of FADD-binding death receptors is to trigger apoptosis. However, recent work has ascribed multiple non-apoptotic activities to these receptors and/or the signaling components of the DISC.
authors.affiliation: The Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, 924 E. 57th Street., Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Sun-Mi
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schickel
authors.forename: Marcus E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Peter
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D053446:CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating Protein; D053181:Caspase 8; D020169:Caspases / Q000502:physiology; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D053200:Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein; D006801:Humans; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D019014:fas Receptor / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; D053446:CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating Protein; C506386:CFLAR protein, human; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; C505533:FADD protein, human; D053200:Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D019014:fas Receptor; C505530:CASP8 protein, human; D053181:Caspase 8; D020169:Caspases