The involvement of β-actin in the signaling of transmembrane TNF-α-mediated cytotoxicity
- 14 March 2011
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Leukocyte Biology
- Vol. 89 (6), 917-926
- https://doi.org/10.1189/jlb.1209812
Abstract
Actin cytoskeleton has been shown to play a regulating role in several signaling pathways, and disruption of actin filament has been reported to increase sTNF-α-induced cell death. However, whether actin is involved in tmTNF-α-mediated cytotoxicity remains unclear. Here, we demonstrated that pretreatment of HL-60 with CytD or LatA to depolymerize actin significantly suppressed tmTNF-α-mediated apoptosis. Interestingly, tmTNF-α increased the actin immunoprecipitated by anti-TNFR2 but not anti-TNFR1 antibody, and disruption of the actin filament totally blocked this effect. In addition, TNFR1 knockdown by siRNA did not affect tmTNF-α-mediated cytotoxicity and the inhibitory effect of CytD, suggesting that the involvement of actin in the tmTNF-α-induced apoptosis is linked to the TNFR2 pathway. Our results revealed further that tmTNF-α signaled the inhibition of IκB degradation and NF-κB activity by recruiting RIP1 to and uncoupling TRAF2 from the TNFR2 complex. Nevertheless, CytD totally reversed the tmTNF-α signaling and activated NF-κB by recruiting TRAF2 to and dissociating RIP1 from the TNFR2 complex. Furthermore, tmTNF-α led to activation of caspase-8 by dissociation of cFLIP from TNFR2 and inhibition of the cFLIP expression. Activated caspase-8 cleft RIP1 to suppress NF-κB activity and also mediated tmTNF-α-induced apoptosis. However, CytD blocked the tmTNF-α-induced uncoupling of cFLIP from TNFR2 and prevented caspase-8 activation and the resulting cleavage of RIP1, converting the signaling for tmTNF-α-mediated apoptosis into one for activating NF-κB to survive. These results suggest that the actin cytoskeleton functions in transmitting signals via TNFR2 to mediate tmTNF-α-induced apoptosis.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (30200257, 30670421)
- Ph.D. Program Foundation of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (20070487006)
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