TY  - JOUR
A1  - Panayotova-Dimitrova, Diana
A1  - Feoktistova, Maria
A1  - Ploesser, Michaela
A1  - Kellert, Beate
A1  - Hupe, Mike
A1  - Horn, Sebastian
A1  - Makarov, Roman
A1  - Jensen, Federico
A1  - Porubsky, Stefan
A1  - Schmieder, Astrid
A1  - Zenclussen, Ana Claudia
A1  - Marx, Alexander
A1  - Kerstan, Andreas
A1  - Geserick, Peter
A1  - He, You-Wen
A1  - Leverkus, Martin
T1  - cFLIP Regulates Skin Homeostasis and Protects against TNF-Induced Keratinocyte Apoptosis
JF  - Cell Reports
N2  - FADD, caspase-8, and cFLIP regulate the outcome of cell death signaling. Mice that constitutively lack these molecules die at an early embryonic age, whereas tissue-specific constitutive deletion of FADD or caspase-8 results in inflammatory skin disease caused by increased necroptosis. The function of cFLIP in the skin in vivo is unknown. In contrast to tissue-specific caspase-8 knockout, we show that mice constitutively lacking cFLIP in the epidermis die around embryonic days 10 and 11. When cFLIP expression was abrogated in adult skin of cFLIP(fl/fl)-K14CreER(tam) mice, severe inflammation of the skin with concomitant caspase activation and apoptotic, but not necroptotic, cell death developed. Apoptosis was dependent of autocrine tumor necrosis factor production triggered by loss of cFLIP. In addition, epidermal cFLIP protein was lost in patients with severe drug reactions associated with epidermal apoptosis. Our data demonstrate the importance of cFLIP for the integrity of the epidermis and for silencing of spontaneous skin inflammation.
KW  - eczematous dermatitis
KW  - programmed necrosis
KW  - gene induction
KW  - in-vivo
KW  - activation
KW  - mediated apoptosis
KW  - c-flip
KW  - cell-death
KW  - Stevens-Johnson syndrome
KW  - toxic epidermal necrolysis
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-122155
VL  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mueller, Thomas D.
A1  - Fiebig, Juliane E.
A1  - Weidauer, Stella E.
A1  - Qiu, Li-Yan
A1  - Bauer, Markus
A1  - Schmieder, Peter
A1  - Beerbaum, Monika
A1  - Zhang, Jin-Li
A1  - Oschkinat, Hartmut
A1  - Sebald, Walter
T1  - The Clip-Segment of the von Willebrand Domain 1 of the BMP Modulator Protein Crossveinless 2 Is Preformed
JF  - Molecules
N2  - Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are secreted protein hormones that act as morphogens and exert essential roles during embryonic development of tissues and organs. Signaling by BMPs occurs via hetero-oligomerization of two types of serine/threonine kinase transmembrane receptors. Due to the small number of available receptors for a large number of BMP ligands ligand-receptor promiscuity presents an evident problem requiring additional regulatory mechanisms for ligand-specific signaling. Such additional regulation is achieved through a plethora of extracellular antagonists, among them members of the Chordin superfamily, that modulate BMP signaling activity by binding. The key-element in Chordin-related antagonists for interacting with BMPs is the von Willebrand type C (VWC) module, which is a small domain of about 50 to 60 residues occurring in many different proteins. Although a structure of the VWC domain of the Chordin-member Crossveinless 2 (CV2) bound to BMP-2 has been determined by X-ray crystallography, the molecular mechanism by which the VWC domain binds BMPs has remained unclear. Here we present the NMR structure of the Danio rerio CV2 VWC1 domain in its unbound state showing that the key features for high affinity binding to BMP-2 is a pre-oriented peptide loop.
KW  - bone morphogenetic proteins
KW  - TGF-β superfamily
KW  - BMP antagonist
KW  - protein-protein recognition
KW  - NMR spectroscopy
KW  - von Willebrand type C domain
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-97196
ER  -