| 1997 |
TACE/ADAM17 was purified and partially cloned as the metalloprotease responsible for cleaving the Ala76-Val77 bond of the 26 kDa pro-TNF-α precursor to generate the mature 17 kDa soluble TNF-α. |
Protein purification and partial cloning; in vitro cleavage assay |
Journal of neuroimmunology |
High |
9042103
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| 1999 |
TACE-deficient mice (lacking proteolytically active TACE) release 80-90% less soluble TNF-α than wild-type cells, and irradiated mice reconstituted with TACE-knockout hematopoietic stem cells have markedly reduced serum TNF-α after LPS challenge, establishing TACE as the major TNF-α converting enzyme in vivo. |
Genetic knockout mouse model; bone marrow reconstitution; ELISA for soluble TNF-α |
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
High |
10415747
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| 2002 |
TACE/ADAM17 cleaves pro-TGF-α at both N- and C-terminal processing sites to release soluble TGF-α; TACE-deficient primary keratinocytes shed dramatically less TGF-α, and TACE re-expression rescued shedding. TACE also cleaves peptide substrates corresponding to processing sites of amphiregulin and HB-EGF and increases their shedding when transfected into TACE-deficient cells. |
In vitro cleavage assay with purified TACE; TACE-deficient cells + adenoviral TACE rescue; co-transfection; Western blot |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
11823465
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| 2003 |
Genetic reduction of functional TACE dosage greatly exacerbates the open-eye defect of Egfr(wa-2/wa-2) newborns, placing TACE upstream of EGFR ligand availability in vivo during eye development. |
Epistasis in compound mutant mice (TACE heterozygous × EGFR hypomorphic wa-2 allele); phenotype scoring |
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
High |
12814936
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| 2003 |
TACE/ADAM17 null mutant mice exhibit markedly enlarged fetal hearts with increased myocardial trabeculation, larger cardiomyocyte size, and increased proliferation. Molecular analysis showed reduced EGFR expression, attenuated ErbB4 cleavage, and altered MAPK activation in knockout hearts, indicating TACE-mediated ectodomain shedding is required for normal cardiac development. |
Genetic knockout mouse model (TACE ΔZn/ΔZn); histology; Western blot; immunostaining |
Developmental biology |
High |
14499647
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| 2005 |
Aspirin induces dose-dependent shedding of platelet surface GPIbα and GPV via ADAM17; shedding was completely blocked in mouse platelets expressing an inactive form of ADAM17 and by a broad-range metalloproteinase inhibitor, but occurred normally in COX-1-deficient platelets. |
FACS on whole blood; immunoprecipitation; Western blot; ADAM17-inactive knock-in mice; COX-1 knockout mice |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
16179345
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| 2006 |
The TACE zymogen cysteine-switch motif in the prodomain is not required for maintaining the inactive precursor state or for secretion; the prodomain maintains latency and aids secretion by preventing the catalytic domain from adopting its native active conformation, resembling a molecular chaperone mechanism. |
Site-directed mutagenesis of prodomain; cell-based zymogen activity assays |
Cell biochemistry and biophysics |
Medium |
16679521
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| 2008 |
In Drosophila, TACE (dTACE) can activate Notch in a ligand-independent manner when overexpressed, whereas Kuzbanian (Kuz) requires Delta stimulation; TACE-dependent Notch cleavage in the developing nervous system can thus bypass ligand engagement. |
In vitro Drosophila cell model; overexpression and genetic manipulation; Notch reporter assays |
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS |
Medium |
18535782
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| 2008 |
HDLs activate ADAM17-dependent shedding of TNFR1, TNFR2, and TNF by reducing cholesterol content of lipid rafts, displacing ADAM17 from rafts to non-raft membrane regions where it cleaves substrates; apoA1 mediates this through ABCA1-dependent cholesterol efflux. |
Cell-based shedding assays; lipid raft fractionation; cell-free isolated membrane assays; ADAM17 inhibitors; ABCA1 knockdown |
Journal of cellular physiology |
Medium |
17786981
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| 2008 |
ADAM17-mediated release of amphiregulin (AREG) from mammary ductal epithelial cells activates EGFR on stromal cells to drive ductal development; tissue recombination and transplantation showed that ADAM17 and AREG must be on epithelial cells and EGFR on stromal cells, and soluble AREG rescues ADAM17-deficient transplants. |
Mammary tissue recombination and transplantation; local AREG administration rescue experiment |
Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia |
Medium |
18470483
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| 2010 |
TACE/ADAM17 mediates physiological germ cell apoptosis during the first wave of spermatogenesis by cleaving the extracellular domain of the KIT receptor; pharmacological inhibition of TACE/ADAM17 (but not ADAM10) significantly prevented germ cell apoptosis, and PMA-induced TACE activation triggered KIT ectodomain cleavage and apoptosis in ex vivo testis culture. |
Pharmacological inhibition in vivo/ex vivo; PMA stimulation; immunostaining; Western blot; rat testis culture |
Reproduction (Cambridge, England) |
Medium |
20501791
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| 2011 |
TACE/ADAM17 cleaves neuregulin-1 (NRG1) type III in the EGF domain, inactivating it (assessed by loss of PI3K pathway activation), and thereby negatively regulates peripheral nervous system myelination. Lentiviral TACE knockdown in DRG neurons accelerates myelination onset and causes hypermyelination; motor neuron-specific TACE knockout mice are hypermyelinated and show aberrant myelination of small-caliber fibers. |
Lentiviral knockdown in DRG neuron co-cultures; conditional knockout mice (motor neuron-specific); electrophysiology; electron microscopy; PI3K pathway assays |
Nature neuroscience |
High |
21666671
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| 2011 |
The tetraspanin CD9 directly associates with ADAM17 on the cell surface (shown by co-immunoprecipitation, crosslinking, proximity ligation, and pull-down) and negatively regulates ADAM17 sheddase activity; CD9 antibody treatment or overexpression reduces TNF-α and ICAM-1 shedding, whereas CD9 silencing increases ADAM17 activity. |
Co-immunoprecipitation; crosslinking; proximity ligation assay; pull-down; CD9 siRNA knockdown; overexpression; shedding assays |
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS |
High |
21365281
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| 2011 |
TrkA and TrkB receptor tyrosine kinases induce MEK-dependent phosphorylation of ADAM17 at intracellular threonine 735, activating ADAM17 to cleave p75NTR and produce its intracellular domain (p75NTR-ICD), which is required for neurotrophin-dependent Erk/Akt activation and neuronal survival. |
Phosphorylation site identification; MEK inhibitors; ADAM17 depletion; overexpression of p75NTR-ICD rescue; PC12 cell survival assays; primary cerebellar granule neurons |
FASEB journal |
High |
21411748
|
| 2011 |
A selective cross-domain human antibody was developed that inhibits cell-surface TACE activity by targeting an epitope outside the metalloprotease active site, demonstrating that TACE ectodomain regions beyond the catalytic site can allosterically control activity. |
Two-step phage display antibody selection; cell-surface TACE activity assays; epitope mapping |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Medium |
21415364
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| 2012 |
p53 transcriptionally activates TACE/ADAM17 as a previously unidentified target gene; TACE then activates NOTCH1 signaling to induce epidermal differentiation and suppress squamous cell carcinoma. FOS negatively regulates this p53/TACE/NOTCH1 differentiation axis. |
Conditional knockout mice; pharmacological p53/AP-1 manipulation; human SCC cell lines; ChIP/transcriptional assays; rescue experiments |
The Journal of clinical investigation |
High |
22772468
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| 2013 |
ADAM17 is expressed by NK cells and its selective inhibition abrogates CD16 and CD62L shedding from activated NK cells; ADAM17 inhibition enhances interferon-γ production, particularly when NK cells are triggered through CD16. |
ADAM17-selective inhibitor; FACS for CD16/CD62L surface expression; NK cell stimulation assays; IFN-γ ELISA |
Blood |
Medium |
23487023
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| 2013 |
HIV Nef recruits paxillin and Eed to activate TACE/ADAM17 and ADAM10; Pak2 phosphorylates paxillin at Ser272/274 to promote TACE-paxillin association and shuttling into extracellular vesicles via lipid rafts, whereas Pak1 phosphorylates Ser258 to inhibit this association. Activated TACE in EVs cleaves proTNFα. |
Co-immunoprecipitation; phospho-specific mutagenesis; lipid raft fractionation; EV isolation; proTNFα cleavage assay; Pak1/2 kinase assays |
Molecular cell |
High |
23317503
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| 2013 |
ADAM17 inhibition or knockdown in diabetic mouse kidney cortex reduces Nox4 expression and NADPH oxidase activity, as well as type IV collagen and fibronectin accumulation, placing ADAM17 upstream of Nox4-mediated oxidative stress in diabetic nephropathy. |
ADAM17-selective inhibitor (TMI-005) in vivo; siRNA knockdown in cultured proximal tubular cells; Western blot; NADPH oxidase activity assay |
American journal of physiology. Renal physiology |
Medium |
23678045
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| 2014 |
TACE/ADAM17 genetic deletion in oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPs) impairs EGFR ligand (TGFα and HB-EGF) shedding, reduces EGFR signaling, causes premature cell cycle exit and reduced OL survival, and leads to deficits in CNS myelination and motor behavior. EGFR overexpression in TACE-deficient OPs rescues OL survival and myelination. |
Conditional knockout mice (NG2-Cre); EGFR overexpression rescue; immunohistochemistry; electron microscopy; behavioral tests; EGFR hypomorphic mouse epistasis |
The Journal of neuroscience |
High |
25186737
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| 2014 |
ADAM17 mediates CXCR2 shedding from neutrophil surfaces in response to non-ligand stimuli (but not chemokine ligand-induced internalization); ADAM17 inhibitor, blocking antibody, and ADAM17 gene-targeted mice all block CXCR2 down-regulation, and ADAM17 blockade enhances neutrophil recruitment during acute inflammation. |
ADAM17-selective inhibitor; function-blocking antibody; ADAM17 gene-targeted mice; FACS; intravital microscopy/acute inflammation model |
Journal of leukocyte biology |
High |
25412626
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| 2015 |
TACE/ADAM17 is required for oligodendrocyte regeneration and CNS remyelination following demyelination; TACE depletion in OPs abrogates EGFR activation in OL lineage cells and impairs cell expansion and survival. EGFR overexpression in TACE-deficient OPs restores OL regeneration and CNS remyelination. |
Conditional knockout mice; demyelination model; EGFR overexpression rescue; immunohistochemistry; electron microscopy |
The Journal of neuroscience |
High |
26338334
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| 2016 |
ADAM17 activity is controlled by subcellular localization: it is constitutively internalized via clathrin-coated pits, with only a small fraction at the cell surface. Physiological GPCR-ligand stimulation activates ADAM17 shedding without altering cell-surface abundance, whereas PMA/PKC activation causes rapid increase of mature ADAM17 at the cell surface followed by its internalization and degradation. |
Live-cell imaging; cell surface biotinylation; clathrin inhibitors; FACS; pulse-chase |
Scientific reports |
Medium |
27731361
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| 2016 |
In the IL-6 receptor (IL-6R), deletion of a triple serine motif (Ser-359 to Ser-361) adjacent to the cleavage site prevents ADAM17-mediated cleavage but not ADAM10-mediated cleavage, because it reduces the distance between the cleavage site and the plasma membrane below the threshold required for ADAM17. |
Site-directed mutagenesis of IL-6R stalk; cell-based shedding assays; chimeric receptor constructs with altered juxtamembrane spacing |
Scientific reports |
High |
27151651
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| 2016 |
Adam17 deficiency (hypomorphic mice) leads to increased membrane-resident TNFα and TNFR2 protein levels, constitutive TNFR2 signaling activation, and proatherosclerotic cellular functions (increased macrophage/VSMC proliferation, reduced apoptosis, increased adhesion); siRNA knockdown of TNFR2 rescues aberrant proliferation in Adam17-depleted cells, placing TNFR2 downstream of ADAM17 in this pathway. |
Adam17 hypomorphic mice crossed to Ldlr-/- background; siRNA TNFR2 rescue; cell proliferation/apoptosis assays; Western blot; atherosclerosis lesion analysis |
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology |
High |
28062509
|
| 2016 |
ADAM17 substrate release in kidney proximal tubule (particularly pro-TNFα and amphiregulin) drives persistent EGFR activation leading to macrophage/neutrophil ingress and fibrosis; proximal tubule-specific inducible ADAM17 KO (Slc34a1-Cre), ADAM17 hypomorphic mice, and pharmacological ADAM17 inhibition all protect against kidney fibrosis. |
Conditional knockout mice; ADAM17 hypomorphic mice; ADAM17 inhibitor; EGFR phosphorylation assays; histology; urine AREG ELISA; human kidney biopsy analysis |
JCI insight |
High |
27642633
|
| 2018 |
iNOS/NO activates TACE/ADAM17 through a soluble guanylyl cyclase/cGMP/PKG-dependent pathway and up-regulates iRhom2, leading to Notch1 cleavage and activation specifically in CD24+CD133+ liver cancer stem cells (LCSCs), promoting stemness and HCC aggressiveness. |
In vitro signaling pathway dissection (sGC/cGMP/PKG inhibitors); iRhom2 expression analysis; xenograft tumor model; patient HCC correlation |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Medium |
30297396
|
| 2019 |
HIF-1α directly transcriptionally activates ADAM17 in macrophages (identified as a novel HIF-1α target gene by ChIP), and macrophage HIF-1α/ADAM17 signaling drives vascular inflammation and extracellular matrix degradation in aortic dissection. |
ChIP assay; ELISA; immunofluorescence; metabolomics; macrophage-specific HIF-1α inhibition (acriflavine); mouse aortic dissection models |
EBioMedicine |
Medium |
31640947
|
| 2019 |
ADAM17 colocalizes with angiotensin-II type 1 receptors on Sim1 neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; selective neuronal ADAM17 knockdown reduces FosB expression, increases vagal tone, and prevents acute pressor response to centrally administered angiotensin-II, placing neuronal ADAM17 as a regulator of sympathetic outflow and blood pressure. |
Neuron-specific conditional knockdown mouse models; photoactivation; neuronal culture; angiotensin-II central injection; blood pressure telemetry |
Hypertension |
Medium |
31564162
|
| 2019 |
ADAM17 is required for oncogenic HPV16 entry: ADAM17 proteinase activity sheds growth factors, activating ERK1/2 signaling that triggers formation of an endocytic entry platform consisting of enlarged CD151 domains containing EGFR. |
ADAM17 inhibitor; ERK1/2 pathway inhibitors; live-cell imaging; proximity assays for CD151/EGFR complex; virus infection assays |
eLife |
Medium |
31107240
|
| 2020 |
ADAM10 and ADAM17 cleave PD-L1 from the surface of tumor cells and extracellular vesicles to produce a soluble active sPD-L1 fragment that induces CD8+ T cell apoptosis and impairs tumor cell killing by CD8+ T cells. |
ADAM10/17 inhibitor; cell-based shedding assay; CD8+ T cell apoptosis assay; tumor cell killing assay; correlation of PD-L1 protein-to-mRNA ratios with ADAM expression |
Oncoimmunology |
Medium |
32363112
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| 2020 |
The transmembrane domain (TMD) and extracellular juxtamembrane domain (JMD) of ADAM17 interact functionally with the TMD and JMD of iRhom2 to control ADAM17 stimulation and substrate selectivity. A point mutation in the ADAM17 JMD from a Tetralogy of Fallot patient specifically alters ADAM17 substrate selectivity toward HB-EGF. |
ADAM17 TMD chimeric/mutant constructs; Adam17-/- and iRhom1/2-/- cell rescue experiments; substrate-selective shedding assays; patient variant analysis |
FASEB journal |
High |
32103528
|
| 2020 |
Endogenous iRhom2 protein stability requires the presence of ADAM17: iRhom2 is barely detectable in ADAM17-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts and macrophages, whereas iRhom1 levels are not reduced (slightly increased) without ADAM17, indicating iRhom2 and ADAM17 are obligate binding partners. |
Cell surface biotinylation; Western blot in Adam17-/- cells; LPS-stimulated bone marrow-derived macrophages |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
Medium |
32060096
|
| 2020 |
NNK (tobacco carcinogen) upregulates p38 MAPK-dependent threonine phosphorylation of ADAM17, activating shedding of soluble IL-6 receptor (sIL-6R) which drives ERK MAPK trans-signaling; ADAM17 deficiency abrogates sIL-6R shedding and downstream ERK signaling in lung adenocarcinoma cells, and NNK-treated hypomorphic Adam17 mice show markedly reduced lung tumorigenesis. |
Adam17 hypomorphic mice in NNK carcinogenesis model; CRISPR KO and pharmacological inhibition in human lung cancer cells; p38 inhibitor; threonine phosphorylation assays; sIL-6R ELISA; ERK phosphorylation Western blot |
Carcinogenesis |
High |
31257400
|
| 2021 |
ADAM17 on endothelial cells mediates TNFR1 ectodomain shedding, and subsequent processing of the remaining stub by γ-secretase is required for TNF-induced necroptosis; genetic ablation of ADAM17 in endothelial cells prevents tumor cell-induced endothelial necroptosis, extravasation, and lung metastasis. |
Endothelial-specific ADAM17 conditional KO mice; pharmacological ADAM17 inhibition; necroptosis assays; metastasis lung colonization model |
The Journal of experimental medicine |
High |
34919140
|
| 2021 |
ADAM17 on classical swine fever virus (CSFV)-permissive cells directly binds the viral envelope protein E2 via its metalloproteinase domain in a zinc-dependent manner; ADAM17 loss eliminates E2 binding and viral entry, and re-expression of pig, human, or mouse ADAM17 rescues infection. |
Pull-down assay with soluble E2; ADAM17 KO cell line; ADAM17 cDNA rescue; domain mapping; CSFV infection assays |
PLoS pathogens |
High |
33684175
|
| 2021 |
ADAM17 blockade with a monoclonal antibody markedly increases human NK cell proliferation driven by IL-15 both in vitro and in xenograft mice; this proliferative boost is dependent on CD62L, whose surface levels are increased by ADAM17 blockade, revealing a negative feedback loop in which IL-15-activated ADAM17 limits NK cell proliferation by shedding CD62L. |
ADAM17-blocking monoclonal antibody; in vitro proliferation assay; xenograft mouse model; CD62L blocking antibody epistasis |
Frontiers in immunology |
Medium |
34367174
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| 2021 |
Loss-of-function mutations in RHBDF2 (iRHOM2) cause defective ADAM17-dependent cleavage and release of TNF and amphiregulin in human patients, leading to immune dysregulation; Rhbdf2-/- mice show more severe pneumonia after P. aeruginosa challenge and worse colitis after Citrobacter infection than wild-type mice. |
Human genetic disease study with functional validation; Rhbdf2-/- mouse infection models; cytokine release assays |
Nature immunology |
High |
34937930
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| 2022 |
Active ADAM17 directly cleaves the insulin receptor (IR) beta subunit ectodomain from endothelial cells; ADAM17 overexpression or PMA-induced ADAM17 activation reduces IRα surface levels and impairs insulin signaling, which is rescued by ADAM17 inhibition (TAPI-0), and IR shedding is increased in arteries from T2D patients. |
In vitro cleavage assay with recombinant ADAM17 and IR; ADAM17 overexpression; TAPI-0 inhibitor rescue; cell surface biotinylation; human artery vasodilation assay |
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology |
Medium |
36018759
|
| 2022 |
ADAM17 knockdown reduces, while ADAM17 overexpression aggravates, cardiac fibrosis in diabetic mice by regulating ACE2 shedding and cardiac fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transformation through the TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling pathway. |
Adenovirus-mediated shRNA knockdown and ADAM17 overexpression in diabetic mouse hearts; echocardiography; histology; TGF-β1/Smad3 pathway Western blot; primary cardiofibroblasts |
Frontiers in pharmacology |
Medium |
36313337
|
| 2022 |
ADAM17 mediates experimental pancreatitis by shedding TNFα and soluble IL-6R (sIL-6R), activating IL-6 trans-signaling/STAT3 axis; genetic (Adam17ex/ex hypomorphic mice) and pharmacological (ADAM17 prodomain inhibitor A17pro) ADAM17 targeting ameliorates acute and chronic pancreatitis. |
Adam17ex/ex hypomorphic mice; ADAM17 prodomain inhibitor; cerulein and NNK pancreatitis models; IL-6/STAT3 pathway assays; histology; human pancreatitis biopsy correlation |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
High |
36215509
|
| 2024 |
In lupus, IFN-I signaling inhibits Langerhans cell (LC) ADAM17 sheddase activity (without consistently reducing ADAM17 protein expression or LC numbers), leading to reduced EGFR ligand release and impaired keratinocyte survival after UV radiation; IFNAR blockade in lupus model mice restores LC ADAM17 sheddase activity via restoration of UVR-induced cytoplasmic reactive oxygen species, and this restoration reduces photosensitive responses in an LC ADAM17-dependent manner. |
Transcriptomic analysis; IFN-I treatment of murine and human LCs; IFNAR blocking antibody in three lupus mouse models; ROS measurement; ADAM17 sheddase activity assay; LC-specific ADAM17 genetic ablation epistasis |
eLife |
High |
38860651
|