| Title | Designed tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand variants initiating apoptosis exclusively via the DR5 receptor. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | van der Sloot AM, Tur V, Szegezdi E, Mullally MM, Cool RH, Samali A, Serrano L, Quax WJ |
| Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 23 |
| Pagination | 8634-9 |
| Date Published | 2006 Jun 6 |
| ISSN | 0027-8424 |
| Keywords | Apoptosis, Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins, Cell Line, Tumor, Computational Biology, Humans, Membrane Glycoproteins, Models, Molecular, Protein Binding, Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand, Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Surface Plasmon Resonance, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha |
| 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. |
| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.0510187103 |
| Alternate Journal | Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |
| PubMed ID | 16731632 |
