ジャーナル: Nat Commun / 年: 2021 タイトル: Cryo-EM structural analysis of FADD:Caspase-8 complexes defines the catalytic dimer architecture for co-ordinated control of cell fate. 著者: Joanna L Fox / Michelle A Hughes / Xin Meng / Nikola A Sarnowska / Ian R Powley / Rebekah Jukes-Jones / David Dinsdale / Timothy J Ragan / Louise Fairall / John W R Schwabe / Nobuhiro Morone ...著者: Joanna L Fox / Michelle A Hughes / Xin Meng / Nikola A Sarnowska / Ian R Powley / Rebekah Jukes-Jones / David Dinsdale / Timothy J Ragan / Louise Fairall / John W R Schwabe / Nobuhiro Morone / Kelvin Cain / Marion MacFarlane / 要旨: Regulated cell death is essential in development and cellular homeostasis. Multi-protein platforms, including the Death-Inducing Signaling Complex (DISC), co-ordinate cell fate via a core FADD: ...Regulated cell death is essential in development and cellular homeostasis. Multi-protein platforms, including the Death-Inducing Signaling Complex (DISC), co-ordinate cell fate via a core FADD:Caspase-8 complex and its regulatory partners, such as the cell death inhibitor c-FLIP. Here, using electron microscopy, we visualize full-length procaspase-8 in complex with FADD. Our structural analysis now reveals how the FADD-nucleated tandem death effector domain (tDED) helical filament is required to orientate the procaspase-8 catalytic domains, enabling their activation via anti-parallel dimerization. Strikingly, recruitment of c-FLIP into this complex inhibits Caspase-8 activity by altering tDED triple helix architecture, resulting in steric hindrance of the canonical tDED Type I binding site. This prevents both Caspase-8 catalytic domain assembly and tDED helical filament elongation. Our findings reveal how the plasticity, composition and architecture of the core FADD:Caspase-8 complex critically defines life/death decisions not only via the DISC, but across multiple key signaling platforms including TNF complex II, the ripoptosome, and RIPK1/RIPK3 necrosome.