TNF Cleavage Beyond TACE/ADAM17
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OPEN TRANSPARENT Closeup ACCESS PROCESS TNFa cleavage beyond TACE TNFa cleavage beyond TACE/ADAM17: matrix metalloproteinase 13 is a potential therapeutic target in sepsis and colitis Christoph Becker-Pauly, Stefan Rose-John* Keywords: ADAM protease; inflammatory bowel disease; MMP13; protease web; sepsis See related article in EMBO Molecular Medicine http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emmm.201202100 For decades, matrix metalloproteinases bone and cartilage turnover but little is the intestinal epithelium. Moreover, ele- (MMPs) have been described as rather known about other functions. vated levels of bioactive TNFa affect the unspecific matrix‐ and collagen‐degrad- In this issue, Libert and coworkers intestinal permeability through endocy- ing enzymes. Accordingly, this group of report on a pro‐inflammatory activity of tosis of tight junction proteins, thereby proteases was mainly associated with MMP13 not by ‘simply’ degrading extra- increasing systemic inflammation. All tissue remodeling and pathologic con- cellular matrix but through the release of these events were abolished in MMP13 ditions such as tumour development and biologically active soluble TNFa from its deficient mice, resulting in increased metastasis. However, broad spectrum membrane bound precursor form. Ecto- survival of MMP13 knockout animals, MMP inhibitors completely failed in domain shedding of TNFa is a paracrine when treated with LPS or DSS. The cancer therapy. authors conclude that MMP13 is a Recent studies with gene deficient potential therapeutic target for the treat- mice revealed more specific functions » …pro-inflammatory activi- ment of colitis (Vandenbroucke et al, of MMPs, e.g. the cleavage of chemo- ty of MMP13 not by ‘simply’ 2013). kines, thereby stimulating inflammatory TACE/ADAM17 has been identified by responses (Dufour & Overall, 2013). degrading extracellular ma- its ability to cleave TNFa but later on it Additionally, mass spectrometry‐based trix but through the release of turned out that many more proteins are proteomic techniques allowed for the biologically active soluble processed by this enzyme. TACE/AD- identification of hundreds of new sub- TNFa from its membrane AM17 knockout mice are not viable and strates of MMPs, giving rise to unexpect- bound precursor form. « show a phenotype strikingly similar to ed biological activity of these proteases in mice lacking ligands of the EGF receptor. health and disease. All these ligands are transmembrane MMP13 is known to be one of few proteins and need to be shed from the collagenases capable of cleaving rigid signaling event in inflammation per- cell surface in order to be systemically collagen fibrils. This ability is based on a formed by the metalloprotease tumour active. More than 74 TACE/ADAM17 complex unfolding mechanism of the necrosis factor a converting enzyme substrates have been identified (Scheller triple‐helical collagen structure. There- (TACE, also known as ADAM17) (Schel- et al, 2011). Up to now, TACE/ADAM17 fore, MMP13 biology is well studied in ler et al, 2011). Although TACE/ADAM17 was considered to be the only biologically is believed to be the major sheddase of relevant TNFa cleaving enzyme in vivo TNFa, Vandenbroucke et al demonstrat- although it was clear that also other Biochemical Institute, Christian-Albrechts- ed that after LPS‐induced sepsis and DSS‐ proteases such as proteinase‐3 could University Kiel, Germany induced colitis, MMP13 is up‐regulated generate biologically active TNFa (Rob- Corresponding author: Tel: þ49 431 880 3336; a ‐ ‐ Fax: þ49 431 880 5007; and cleaves TNF . This leads to ER stress ache Gallea et al, 1995). Mice, in which E-mail: [email protected] and mucus depletion resulting in an the TACE/ADAM17 gene was inactivated DOI 10.1002/emmm.201302899 increased interaction of bacteria with only in neutrophils and monocytes/ ß 2013 The Authors. Published by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd on behalf of EMBO. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits use, distribution and reproduction 970 in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. EMBO Mol Med (2013) 5, 970–972 www.embomolmed.org Closeup Christoph Becker-Pauly and Stefan Rose-John macrophages, failed to shed TNFa upon ty of endogenous activators and/or of TACE/ADAM17 within the protease LPS challenge and were largely resistant inhibitors, e.g. TIMP’s, resulting in al- web signalizes no change in cell homeo- against LPS mediated endotoxin shock tered shedding of TNFa when MMP13 or stasis, while the lack of TACE/ADAM17 is (Horiuchi et al, 2007). TACE/ADAM17 is deleted. Therefore, it is recognized to stimulate/recruit compen- Since TNFa is involved in the induc- important to study MMP13 and TACE/ satory proteases. Nevertheless, Blobel and tion and maintenance of many inflamma- ADAM17 expression and activity in vivo coworkers provided evidence that long‐ tory diseases and blockade of TNFa is an in corresponding knockout animals with term inhibition of TACE/ADAM17 in- effective treatment for these conditions, regard to substrate cleavage. This can duced compensation by ADAM10. At this TACE/ADAM17 has been considered a be challenging, but it is known that point, however, one should keep in mind therapeutic target. However, due to the protease activity does not necessarily that mice lacking ADAM10 or TACE/ severe phenotypes of mice lacking TACE/ correlate with mRNA or protein levels. ADAM17 are not viable demonstrating ADAM17, treatment of patients seemed to For e.g. ADAM17 mRNA is expressed that compensation is somewhat limited. be critical with regard to side effects. virtually in all cells and is not subject to A protease network does not explain Indeed, knock‐in mice with 95% de- major transcriptional regulation. The why MMP13 does not compensate for the creased levels of TACE/ADAM17 showed protease is, however, mostly located loss of TACE/ADAM17 and vice versa. increased susceptibility to inflammatory within the cell but is transported to the Proteases might be organized in different bowel disease, which again is critical for cell surface mainly in inflamed tissues sub‐clusters, meaning that MMP13 and medical treatment (Chalaris et al, 2010). and in cancer (Scheller et al, 2011). TACE/ADAM17 are not directly linked in Unexpectedly, Blaydon et al identified a Are proteolytic enzymes lone fighters the protease web. To clarify this issue, single patient with no functional TACE/ or do they have guidance to their identification of regulatory molecules that ADAM17 due to a mutation in the substrates in a molecular network that orchestrate such protease networks is Adam17 gene demonstrating that loss builds the protease web? Could it be important. The tetraspanins and iRhoms, of TACE/ADAM17 activity can be com- that groups of proteases are physically the latter being catalytically inactive pensated in humans (Blaydon et al, connected in ‘clusters’, either directly rhomboid proteases, might be key players 2011). or through linker molecules and that in this scenario. It was shown that these Libert and coworkers additionally these networks rule substrate cleavage? transmembrane proteins influence locali- found MMP7 to be up‐regulated in DSS‐ Such a molecular microenvironment has zation and biologic activity of ADAMs induced colitis in MMP13 knockout mice the capacity to register the loss of single and it is likely that other proteases are (Vandenbroucke et al, 2013). MMP7 had players and might then compensate the involved as well (Adrain et al, 2012; previously been shown to induce TNFa‐ lack of activity (Fig 1). Yanez‐Mo et al, 2011). Additionally, for release in a model of herniated disc numerous secreted proteases tethering to resorption. However, it is not clear the extracellular matrix was demonstrat- whether this is a direct proteolytic effect » …analysing proteolytic ed, which further supports the hypothesis on TNFa or if it is mediated through events in health and disease of clusters of proteolytic enzymes. MMP7‐mediated stimulation of other with regard to localization, Interestingly, only few full knockouts proteases. Along the same line, expres- contributing activators, of proteases in animal models lead to sion of ADAM19, which was also identi- severe phenotypes or even lethality. For fied as a TNFa‐releasing enzyme, is inhibitors, or other regulatory example, all MMP knockout mice, except significantly increased in the mucosa of molecules, in one word, the of MMP14, reveal fairly mild phenotypic patients with colitis. These studies pro- protease web, is abnormalities, pointing to compensatory vide evidence for other proteolytic important. « mechanisms on mRNA‐ and/or protein enzymes that might contribute to TNFa levels, implying activators, endogenous cleavage and progression of colitis and inhibitors, enhancers and other regulato- that are possible candidates to compen- An example is the partial compensation ry molecules. This makes it challenging in sate lacking ADAM17 activity. of TACE/ADAM17 activity by ADAM10. these animal models to distinguish be- The crucial point in understanding Blobel and coworkers demonstrated that tween molecular differences that are protease networks in terms of compensa- in embryonic fibroblasts, deletion of specifically due to the loss of the deleted tion is, why MMP13 does not cleave TACE/ADAM17 recruits ADAM10 as protease or based on the regulation of TNFa in TACE/ADAM17 negative mice compensatory sheddase for many sub- compensatory enzymes. and why TACE/ADAM17 does not do so strates (Le Gall et al, 2009). This could be Proteolytic systems are obviously flex- in MMP13 negative mice. The most due to the accumulation of uncleaved ible in terms of substrate‐cleavage‐ obvious reason is an activation of substrates, which are then processed by compensation as demonstrated by Libert MMP13 by ADAM17 and vice versa, other proteases. However, at least in short and coworkers for the ectodomain shed- which is rather unlikely due to their term treatment, pharmacological inhibi- ding of TNFa (Vandenbroucke et al, 2013). activation mechanisms and the different tion of TACE/ADAM17 in cells also Next to the shedding of TNFa by TACE/ phenotypes of knockout mice.