N-glycosylation of mouse TRAIL-R and human TRAIL-R1 enhances TRAIL-induced death

  • Florent Dufour
  • , Thibault Rattier
  • , Sarah Shirley
  • , Gaelle Picarda
  • , Andrei Alexandru Constantinescu
  • , Aymeric Morlé
  • , Al Batoul Zakaria
  • , Guillaume Marcion
  • , Sebastien Causse
  • , Eva Szegezdi
  • , Dirk Michael Zajonc
  • , Renaud Seigneuric
  • , Gilles Guichard
  • , Tijani Gharbi
  • , Fabien Picaud
  • , Guillaume Herlem
  • , Carmen Garrido
  • , Pascal Schneider
  • , Chris Alan Benedict
  • , Olivier Micheau

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Abstract

APO2L/TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) induces death of tumor cells through two agonist receptors, TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2. We demonstrate here that N-linked glycosylation (N-glyc) plays also an important regulatory role for TRAIL-R1-mediated and mouse TRAIL receptor (mTRAIL-R)-mediated apoptosis, but not for TRAIL-R2, which is devoid of N-glycans. Cells expressing N-glyc-defective mutants of TRAIL-R1 and mouse TRAIL-R were less sensitive to TRAIL than their wild-type counterparts. Defective apoptotic signaling by N-glyc-deficient TRAIL receptors was associated with lower TRAIL receptor aggregation and reduced DISC formation, but not with reduced TRAIL-binding affinity. Our results also indicate that TRAIL receptor N-glyc impacts immune evasion strategies. The cytomegalovirus (CMV) UL141 protein, which restricts cell-surface expression of human TRAIL death receptors, binds with significant higher affinity TRAIL-R1 lacking N-glyc, suggesting that this sugar modification may have evolved as a counterstrategy to prevent receptor inhibition by UL141. Altogether our findings demonstrate that N-glyc of TRAIL-R1 promotes TRAIL signaling and restricts virus-mediated inhibition.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)500-510
Number of pages11
JournalCell Death and Differentiation
Volume24
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2017
Externally publishedYes

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