The TWEAK–Fn14 cytokine–receptor axis: discovery, biology and therapeutic targeting

JA Winkles - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2008 - nature.com
… 7,8 , it became clear that there was probably another TWEAK receptor. In 2001, Wiley et al.
… assumed that TWEAK activity on all cell types is mediated by this receptor. TWEAK activity …

TWEAK, a member of the TNF superfamily, is a multifunctional cytokine that binds the TweakR/Fn14 receptor

SR Wiley, JA Winkles - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
… There is one receptor currently known to bind TWEAK with … to in the literature as either TWEAK
receptor (TweakR) or fibroblast … regarding TWEAK gene expression, receptor recognition, …

The TWEAK‐Fn14 system as a potential drug target

H Wajant - British Journal of Pharmacology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Apoptosis induction by the TNFR1-related TRAIL death receptors is not or only poorly
enhanced by TWEAK treatment further indicating that Fn14 signalling affects an apoptosis-relevant …

TWEAK can induce cell death via endogenous TNF and TNF receptor 1

P Schneider, R Schwenzer, E Haas… - European journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
TWEAKinduced apoptosis critically depends on the autocrine/ paracrine action of induced
TNF. Moreover, as the response pattern of TWEAK in … of another TWEAK receptor distinct from …

[HTML][HTML] A novel TNF receptor family member binds TWEAK and is implicated in angiogenesis

SR Wiley, L Cassiano, T Lofton, T Davis-Smith… - Immunity, 2001 - cell.com
TWEAK is a member of the TNF ligand family that induces angiogenesis in vivo. We report
cloning of a receptor for TWEAK (… Five different assays demonstrate TWEAK-TweakR binding, …

Antibodies to TWEAK receptor inhibit human tumor growth through dual mechanisms

PA Culp, D Choi, Y Zhang, J Yin, P Seto… - Clinical Cancer …, 2010 - AACR
… Indeed, therapeutics against several ligand and receptor superfamily members are either …
functions of its only known ligand, TWEAK (6). TWEAK has been shown to play various roles in …

The TWEAK receptor Fn14 is a potential cell surface portal for targeted delivery of glioblastoma therapeutics

JG Perez, NL Tran, MG Rosenblum, CS Schneider… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
… -anchored TWEAK and soluble TWEAK monomers assemble into trimers. TWEAK binding
to the Fn14 extracellular domain promotes Fn14 trimerization and binding of TNF receptor-…

TWEAK mediates signal transduction and differentiation of RAW264. 7 cells in the absence of Fn14/TweakR: evidence for a second TWEAK receptor

TC Polek, M Talpaz, BG Darnay… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
… ) was suggested to be a receptor for TWEAK. We show that the Fn14/TWEAK receptor (TweakR)
was not responsible for the osteoclastic effect of TWEAK on RAW cells. Flow cytometry …

TWEAK, a new secreted ligand in the tumor necrosis factor family that weakly induces apoptosis

Y Chicheportiche, PR Bourdon, H Xu, YM Hsu… - Journal of Biological …, 1997 - ASBMB
… Here we describe a new ligand in this family, designated TWEAK. The mouse … receptor
binding domain. The protein was efficiently secreted from cells indicating that, like TNF, TWEAK

TWEAK/Fn14 signaling in tumors

G Hu, W Zeng, Y Xia - Tumor Biology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… These findings demonstrated that FGF-2, VEGF-A, and TWEAK might cooperate during
tumor angiogenesis via binding to their respective receptors on the endothelial cell surface (…