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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 17, 12831-12841, April 27, 2007

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Receptor-mediated Endocytosis Is Not Required for Tumor Necrosis Factor-related Apoptosis-inducing Ligand (TRAIL)-induced Apoptosis^*

From the MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building, University of Leicester, P. O. Box 138, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is selectively toxic to tumor compared with normal cells. Other members of the TNF family of death ligands (TNF, CD95L) engage their respective receptors (TNF-R1 and CD95), resulting in internalization of receptor and ligand and recruitment of adaptor proteins to the caspase activation platform known as the death-inducing signaling complex (DISC). Recently, TNF-R1 and CD95 have been shown to induce apoptosis with an absolute requirement for internalization of their corresponding receptors in the formation of a DISC. We show that TRAIL and its receptors are rapidly endocytosed in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. Blockade of receptor internalization with hyperosmotic sucrose did not inhibit TRAIL-induced apoptosis but, rather, amplified the apoptotic signaling of TRAIL. Plate-bound and soluble TRAIL induced similar levels of apoptosis. Together these results suggest that neither ligand nor receptor internalization is required for TRAIL-induced apoptosis. Internalization of TRAIL is mediated primarily by clathrin-dependent endocytosis and also by clathrin-independent pathways. Inhibition of clathrin-dependent internalization by overexpression of dominant negative forms of dynamin or AP180 did not inhibit TRAIL-induced apoptosis. Consistent with the finding that neither internalization of TRAIL nor its receptors is required for transmission of its apoptotic signal, recruitment of FADD (Fas-associated death domain) and procaspase-8 to form the TRAIL-associated DISC occurred at 4 °C, independent of endocytosis. Our findings demonstrate that TRAIL and TRAIL receptor 1/2, unlike TNF-TNF-R1 or CD95L-CD95, do not require internalization for formation of the DISC, activation of caspase-8, or transmission of an apoptotic signal in BJAB type I cells.

Received for publication, January 16, 2007 , and in revised form, February 26, 2007.

^* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains supplemental Figs. 1–3.

¹ These are joint first authors.

² To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 44-116-2525609; Fax: 44-116-2525616; E-mail: gmc2{at}le.ac.uk.

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