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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages 1297-1302Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307981100
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Soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNFRs) are important modulators of TNF bioactivity. Proteolytic cleavage of the 28-kDa ectodomain of TNFR1 has been recognized as the mechanism by which soluble TNFR is shed. We now describe the release of exosome-like vesicles as a mechanism for the generation of soluble, full-length 55-kDa TNFR1. We found unexpectedly that the predominant form of soluble TNFR1 in human serum and lung epithelial lining fluid is a full-length 55-kDa protein. Furthermore, supernatants from human vascular endothelial cells contain only full-length 55-kDa TNFR1 that can be sedimented by high-speed centrifugation, floated on sucrose gradients at a density of 1.1 g/ml, and associated with vesicles that range in diameter from 20 nm to 50 nm. We conclude that the release of TNFR1 exosome-like vesicles represents a previously unrecognized mechanism by which constitutive production of soluble cytokine receptors may be regulated, independent of ectodomain cleavage by receptor sheddases.
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