title: Designed tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand variants initiating apoptosis exclusively via the DR5 receptor.
abstract: Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a potential anticancer drug that selectively induces apoptosis in a variety of cancer cells by interacting with death receptors DR4 and DR5. TRAIL can also bind to decoy receptors (DcR1, DcR2, and osteoprotegerin receptor) that cannot induce apoptosis. The occurrence of DR5-responsive tumor cells indicates that a DR5 receptor-specific TRAIL variant will permit tumor-selective therapies. By using the automatic design algorithm FOLD-X, we successfully generated DR5-selective TRAIL variants. These variants do not induce apoptosis in DR4-responsive cell lines but show a large increase in biological activity in DR5-responsive cancer cell lines. Even wild-type TRAIL-insensitive ovarian cancer cell lines could be brought into apoptosis. In addition, our results demonstrate that there is no requirement for antibody-mediated cross-linking or membrane-bound TRAIL to induce apoptosis through DR5.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Almer M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: van der Sloot
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tur
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Szegezdi
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Mullally
authors.forename: Robbert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Cool
authors.forename: Afshin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samali
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Serrano
authors.forename: Wim J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Quax
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D019295:Computational Biology; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011485:Protein Binding; D053220:Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; D018124:Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D053221:TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D053220:Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; D018124:Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor; D053221:TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; C505639:TNFRSF10B protein, human; C505653:TNFSF10 protein, human; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha