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Sublethal necroptosis signaling promotes inflammation and liver cancer.
Immunity 56, 1578-1595.e8 (2023)
It is currently not well known how necroptosis and necroptosis responses manifest in vivo. Here, we uncovered a molecular switch facilitating reprogramming between two alternative modes of necroptosis signaling in hepatocytes, fundamentally affecting immune responses and hepatocarcinogenesis. Concomitant necrosome and NF-κB activation in hepatocytes, which physiologically express low concentrations of receptor-interacting kinase 3 (RIPK3), did not lead to immediate cell death but forced them into a prolonged “sublethal” state with leaky membranes, functioning as secretory cells that released specific chemokines including CCL20 and MCP-1. This triggered hepatic cell proliferation as well as activation of procarcinogenic monocyte-derived macrophage cell clusters, contributing to hepatocarcinogenesis. In contrast, necrosome activation in hepatocytes with inactive NF-κB-signaling caused an accelerated execution of necroptosis, limiting alarmin release, and thereby preventing inflammation and hepatocarcinogenesis. Consistently, intratumoral NF-κB-necroptosis signatures were associated with poor prognosis in human hepatocarcinogenesis. Therefore, pharmacological reprogramming between these distinct forms of necroptosis may represent a promising strategy against hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Hcc ; Intravital Imaging ; Mlkl ; Nf-κb ; Rip1 ; Rip3 ; Ripk1 ; Ripk3 ; Traf2 ; Undead Cells; Nf-kappa-b; Gene-expression Signature; Cell-death; Hepatocellular-carcinoma; Mouse Hepatocytes; Activation; Traf2; Rip3; Tak1; Hepatocarcinogenesis
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1074-7613
e-ISSN
1097-4180
Journal
Immunity
Quellenangaben
Volume: 56,
Issue: 7,
Pages: 1578-1595.e8
Publisher
Cell Press
Publishing Place
Cambridge, Mass.
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Research Unit Radiation Cytogenetics (ZYTO)
Grants
Cancer Research UK