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. 2017 Mar 13;14(6):482–487. doi: 10.1038/cmi.2017.4

Regulation of inflammation and tumorigenesis by the TIPE family of phospholipid transfer proteins

Jason R Goldsmith 1,*, Youhai H Chen 1,*
PMCID: PMC5518821  PMID: 28287114

Abstract

The TIPE (tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein 8-like) family are newly described regulators of immunity and tumorigenesis consisting of four highly homologous mammalian proteins: TNFAIP8 (tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein 8), TIPE1 (TNFAIP8-like 1, or TNFAIP8L1), TIPE2 (TNFAIP8L2) and TIPE3 (TNFAIP8L3). They are the only known transfer proteins of the lipid secondary messengers PIP2 (phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate) and PIP3 (phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate). Cell-surface receptors, such as G-protein-coupled receptors and receptor tyrosine kinases, regulate inflammation and cancer via several signaling pathways, including the nuclear factor (NF)-κB and phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) pathways, the latter of which is upstream of both Akt and STAT3 activation. An expression analysis in humans demonstrated that the TIPE family is dysregulated in cancer and inflammation, and studies both in mice and in vitro have demonstrated that this family of proteins plays a critical role in tumorigenesis and inflammatory responses. In this review, we summarize the current literature for all four family members, with a special focus on the phenotypic manifestations present in the various knockout murine strains, as well as the related cell signaling that has been elucidated to date.

Keywords: inflammation, PI3K, TIPE, TNFAIP8, tumorigenicity

Introduction

The linkage between inflammation and cancer has long been appreciated,1 and recent data have elucidated some of the mechanisms underlying this linkage.2 Specifically, NF-κB and STAT3 signaling are central pathways that link these two biological processes.3, 4, 5, 6, 7 G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), responsible for a large share of cell-surface signaling, are central to this relationship and exhibit a diverse range of functions: they couple with heterotrimeric G-proteins, and the activation of the receptors leads to Gα- and Gβγ-mediated signaling, which exerts several receptor- and cell-specific signaling effects.

Gβγ-mediated signaling has been noted to be important for inflammation and cancer. For example, GPCR signaling extensively regulates NF-κB signaling via this complex8 and is associated with tumor metastasis through the regulation of cell migration. Dissociated (active) Gβγ activates the small G-protein Ras, predominately at the leading edge of migrating cells. Ras activates phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K), which converts phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2 or PIP2) to PI(3,4,5)P3 (PIP3).9 In addition to GPCRs, tyrosine kinases, such as the Janus kinase (JAK) family and growth factor receptors, activate PI3K signaling.10

Once PIP2 has been converted to PIP3, it can recruit proteins with Pleckstrin homology domains to the plasma membrane at the leading edge, including AKT11 (which has a central role in oncogenesis, often via mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin)12) and polybasic domain-containing proteins, such as the RAC and Cdc42 members of the Rho family of small GTPases.13 During cell migration, active RAC-GTP preferentially localizes to the leading edge (lamellipodia) at the front of the cell, where it drives the polymerization of actin. PI3K activation can also activate the STAT3 pathway, which is strongly linked to both inflammation and cancer14, 15 and engages in significant crosstalk with NF-κB signaling.16

The TIPE (tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein 8-like, or TNFAIP8L) family are newly described regulators of immunity and tumorigenesis17, 18 that are the only known transfer proteins of the lipid second messengers PIP2 and PIP319 which are central to Gβγ signaling. Four highly homologous mammalian family members have been identified: TNFAIP8 (tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein 8); TIPE1 (TNFAIP8L1); TIPE2 (TNFAIP8L2); and TIPE3 (TNFAIP8L3). TNFAIP8 expression is induced by TNF,20 promotes tumor metastasis and is a risk factor for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans and bacterial infection in mice.21, 22 Similarly, TIPE2 regulates both carcinogenesis and inflammation, and its germline deletion leads to leukocytosis and systemic inflammatory disorders in aged, 129-strain mice.18, 23 Moreover, TIPE1 has been reported to regulate cell death,24 whereas the oncogenic role of TIPE3 has just been characterized by us.19

To date, the TIPE family has exhibited significant overlap in signaling with the molecules involved in chemotaxis, and perturbations in TIPE signaling alter inflammation, tumorigenicity and wound healing. This review focuses on the phenotypic manifestations of perturbations in TIPE signaling, the known signaling cascades that the TIPE family is involved in, and the known structural biology of TIPE proteins.

TNFAIP8 (TIPE0), the original TIPE family member, is a negative regulator of apoptosis and is oncogenic

TNFAIP8 was the first TIPE family protein to be discovered. It was originally known as SCC-C2, as it was found in a cell line derived from metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer and was determined to be a negative regulator of apoptosis in overexpression assays.17, 20, 25 Its expression levels correlate with the tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) staging of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma,26 and a similar pattern has been observed in pancreatic cancer,27 gastric adenocarcinoma28 and endometrial cancer.29 It is also a risk factor for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and high levels of TNFAIP8 expression are associated with more aggressive forms of epithelial ovarian cancer with poor survival rates22, 30 as well as with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).31 Furthermore, the overexpression of TNFAIP8 protein in the MDA-MB 435 human breast cancer cell line resulted in increased cell proliferation and cell migration,17 which was demonstrated to enhance tumorgenicity32 when injected in athymic mice. In contrast, antisense inhibition in athymic mice resulted in a decreased incidence of pulmonary metastasis.32 TNFAIP8 expression is also increased in diabetic kidneys, and it is upregulated in mesangial cells in response to high glucose levels, with concordant mesangial cell proliferation enhancement.33 Moreover, TNFAIP8 protein is known to be induced by NF-κB activation,34 a central pro-proliferative, anti-apoptotic transcription factor.35

Mechanistic studies have shown that decreased TNFAIP8 expression led to concomitant decreases in the levels of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) and matrix metalloprotease (MMP) 1 and 9.32 In addition, TNFAIP8 has been shown to be directly coupled to Gαi g-proteins; this interaction does not appear to be involved in Gαi3-mediated cAMP inhibition but is involved in Gi-mediated inhibition of cell death, presumably via the Gβγ subunit.36 TNFAIP8 protein has also been found to associate with activated RAC1-GTP at the cell membrane,37 and the knockout of this protein resulted in resistance to lethal Listeria monocytogenes infection via decreased RAC1-mediated cell invasion and increased apoptosis.37 Knocking out the TNFAIP8 gene also exacerbated disease in a dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) model of murine colitis, and the data suggested that this effect was due to decreased epithelial cell survival in the face of the chemical insult.38 Knocking down TNFAIP8 also excacerbates oxidative stress-mediated autophagic cell death in a manner involving decreased mTOR activation.39 In contrast to the aforementioned studies, the downregulation of TNFAIP8 has also been shown to prevent glucocorticoid-mediated apoptosis in thymocytes.40

TIPE1 is an enhancer of apoptosis

TIPE1, also known as Oxi-β, was first characterized in 2011 after the development of a specific antibody to this protein. In mice, TIPE1 was found to be expressed in a wide variety of tissues, including neurons, hepatocytes, muscle tissue, intestinal epithelial cells and germ cells, but surprisingly, it was absent from mature B and T cells.41 TIPE1 is known to be downregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues in a manner that correlates with TNM staging and patient death.42

In HCC cell cultures, TIPE1 was found to interact with Rac1, inhibiting activation of downstream p65 and c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling, which increased caspase-mediated apoptosis.42 In a dopaminergic neuronal cell line and in rats, oxidative stress increased TIPE1 transcription and translation, with downstream increases in autophagy and cell death, whereas knocking down the TIPE1 gene decreased this phenomenon. This effect was mediated, at least in part, by TIPE1-dependent mTOR inhibition.43 Further studies demonstrated that TIPE1 was able to compete with TSC2 (tuberous sclerosis complex 2) for binding to FBXW5, and the overexpression of TIPE1 led to the accumulation of TSC2, which is a negative regulator of mTOR.43 Moreover, TIPE1 was found to only weakly interact with Gαi as compared with TNFAIP8.36

TIPE2 is a negative regulator of immunity and inflammation

We first reported TIPE2 in 2008, which was found to be widely expressed in lymphoid tissues; its knockout in mice resulted in the development of spontaneous multi-organ inflammation, splenomegaly and premature death, and these mice were hypersensitive to Toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation.18 Follow-up expression studies in mice have found that TIPE2 is preferentially expressed in hematopoietic cells, particularly T cells (including regulatory T cells),44 whereas it is almost absent from B cells and the B cell zones of lymphoid tissues.45 In human studies, TIPE2 was found to be much more widely expressed; notably, it was found to be expressed only in differentiated, not progenitor, squamous epithelial cells.46

TIPE2 has been investigated in the setting of several human diseases. In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, TIPE2 mRNA expression was found to be decreased in peripheral blood monocytes (PMBCs) compared with healthy controls, and its expression levels inversely correlated with disease activity.47 Similarly, patients with childhood asthma exhibited decreased levels of TIPE2 expression compared with healthy controls, and the levels of TIPE2 inversely correlated with mediators of asthma, namely eosinophils, IgE, and IL-4. This pattern was also present in the PMBCs of patients with myasthenia gravis, with increased levels of IL-6, IL-17 and IL-21 correlating with decreased TIPE2 expression.48

Patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection were also shown to have decreased levels of TIPE2, and its expression was negatively associated with viral load and serum markers of liver inflammation. Moreover, the PMBCs of these patients were preferentially decreased in cytotoxic T cells with an accompanying increase in disease activity.49 A similar pattern was observed in the PMBCs of patients with hepatitis C virus infection.50 In contrast, patients with acute-on-chronic hepatitis B liver failure (ACHBLF) were found to have increased levels of TIPE2 expression, and ex vivo studies suggested that the cellular immune response was decreased in patients with ACHBLF, as evidenced by diminished cytokine production upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation and the associated upregulation of TIPE2 expression. Increased levels of TIPE2 expression have also been found to correlate with mortality in patients with ACHBLF.51 In contrast, the TIPE2 protein levels are decreased in the PMBCs of patients with primary biliary sclerosis, and inflammatory cytokine production was found to be inversely related to TIPE2 expression; furthermore, TIPE2 expression is upregulated by ursodeoxycholic acid.52

In neoplastic studies, TIPE2 expression has been found to be decreased or completely lost in human hepatic cancer,23 and reduced TIPE2 expression is associated with metastasis. It is also downregulated in gastric cancer tissues,53 NSCLC tumors54 and small cell lung cancer tumors,55 and the levels of TIPE2 inversely correlate with NSCLC TNM staging.54 Moreover, reduced TIPE2 expression is associated with metastasis of hepatic cancer.56 In contrast, TIPE2 expression was increased in the tumor tissues of patients with renal cell carcinoma and positively correlated with TNM staging.57 Similarly, TIPE2 expression is increased in colon cancer tissues and is associated with lymph node metastases and the Duke stage of the cancer.58

In mouse models, TIPE2 ablation exacerbated cerebral ischemia,59 whereas ablation decreased colonic inflammation and cell death in DSS colitis, an effect attributed to enhanced killing of the commensal microbiota that invade the gut wall during DSS colitis.60 In an injury-induced restenosis models in mice, the loss of TIPE2 increased vascular smooth muscle proliferation with increased restenosis.61 Furthermore, TIPE2 overexpression reduced disease severity and polarized macrophages to an M2 phenotype in a murine lupus model.62

Mechanistically, TIPE2 has been found to bind to and activate caspase-8, promote Fas-induced apoptosis and inhibit NF-κB activating protein-1.18, 58 It is also a negative regulator of NOD2 inflammatory signaling.63 Similar to TIPE1, it only weakly interacts with Gαi,36 Knockdown of TIPE2 in regulatory T cells (Tregs) decreases the expression levels of the cell-surface molecules CTLA-4 and Foxp3 and anti-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-10 and TGF-β. These modified cells result in the upregulation of IL-2 expression and increased nuclear factor of activated T cells activation as well as T-cell proliferation and differentiation.44 Similarly, dsRNA signaling via polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid [Poly (I:C)] is hyperactive in TIPE2 knockout myeloid cells, and Poly (I:C) signaling leads to the downstream cytokine-mediated downregulation in TIPE2 expression.64 TIPE2 has also been shown to induce Foxp3 in Tregs65 and through dendritic cells can inhibit T-cell proliferation and differentiation.66 Furthermore, TIPE2 has recently been implicated as the molecular bridge for the microRNA (miRNA)-21-mediated suppression of T-cell apoptosis; miRNA-21 was found to be a direct target of NF- κB and to decrease TIPE2 expression, which results in apoptosis resistance.67

TIPE2 has also been found to bind to and inhibit Rac, inhibiting downstream activation of AKT and Ral; deficiency in TIPE2 protein increased the activation of Ral and AKT, with associated resistance to cell death and increased cell migration as well as the dysregulation of exocyst complex formation. In vascular smooth muscle cells, TIPE2 was found to inhibit Rac1-mediated STAT3 activation, nuclear translocation and Erk1/2 activation.23 In HCC, TIPE2 reduces Rac-mediated F-actin polymerization and the expression of MMP-9 and urokinase plasminogen activator, and a loss of TIPE2 in this setting is associated with metastasis.56 It also inhibits the TNF-mediated activation of Erk1/2 and NF-κB in an HCC cell line.68 In contrast, TIPE2 overexpression induced cell death and inhibited Ras-mediated tumorigenesis in mice.23 In gastric cell lines, increased TIPE2 expression decreased cell proliferation by upregulating N-ras and p27 expression,53 the latter of which is mediated by interferon regulatory factor 4 via NF-κB;69 TIPE2 has also been found to regulate AKT and ERK1/2 signaling in these cells70 as well as GSK3β and downstream β-catenin translocation.71 Finally, TIPE appears to regulate angiogenesis in retinal pigment epithelium by inhibiting VEGF.72

TIPE2 is also a negative regulator of phagocytosis and oxidative burst induced by TLRs, and knockout mice were found to be resistant to bacterial infections.73 Similarly, the loss of TIPE2 led to increased induced nitric oxide production by macrophages upon LPS stimulation.74 TIPE2 may also be a negative inhibitor of atherosclerosis formation because TIPE2 inhibited smooth muscle proliferation and differentiation, whereas TIPE2 deficiency accelerated neointima formation.75 In addition, TIPE2 regulates macrophage responses to oxidized low-density lipoproteins (ox-LDL); TIPE2-deficient macrophages produced more oxidative stress and inflammatory cytokines, with associated increases in JNK, NF- κB, and p38 signaling.76 In conjunction with this finding, TIPE2 deficiency in the bone marrow increased atherosclerosis formation in Ldlr−/− mice fed a high-fat diet, and ox-LDL was found to downregulate TIPE2 mRNA expression.76 Interestingly, atorvastatin seems to potentiate the LPS-mediated expression of TIPE2, with downstream decreases in inflammatory mediators, including NO synthase and NF- κB.77

TIPE3 is an oncogenic transfer protein of lipid second messengers

TIPE3 is the most recently investigated TIPE family member, and only a few articles have been published regarding this protein. Human cancers (cervical, colon, lung and esophageal) exhibit marked increases in TIPE3 expression,19, 78 and TIPE3 protein is preferentially expressed in secretory epithelial tissues, with nearly identical murine and human expression profiles.78 It potentiates PI3K signaling and downstream Akt (but not Erk) signaling, and knocking down TIPE3 diminishes tumorigenesis in animal models, whereas enforced expression increases tumorigenesis.19 Structure/function studies (discussed below) suggest that it shuttles PIP2 and PIP3 to the plasma membrane to potentiate PI3K-related signaling.19

Structure/function studies of the TIPE family members provide key insights into their functional differences

The crystal structures of TIPE2 and TIPE3 both demonstrate a hydrophobic pocket that, based on structural analysis, may bind phospholipids.19, 79 All TIPE members share a common TIPE2-homology (TH) domain and are able to interact with an array of phospholipids, namely PtdIns(4,5)P2, PtdIns(3,5)P2, PtdIns(3,4)P2, PtdIns4P, PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 and PA.19 Mutation studies in the binding pockets of TIPE3 demonstrated that the introduction of electrostatic charge resulted in a loss of phospholipid binding, supporting the role of the pockets as phospholipid binding sites.19 The disruption of this binding site also inhibited TIPE3 function. In addition, TIPE3 contains a unique N-terminal domain that is required for its activating functions; the deletion of this domain preserves phosphoinositide binding but results in a dominant negative, inhibitory phenotype akin to TIPE2 function.19

Conclusions

The TIPE family of proteins represents a novel protein group discovered just over a decade ago. Tissue expression studies show some variability among the proteins, with TNFAIP8 and TIPE1 being the most widely expressed family members and TIPE2 and TIPE3 being found preferentially in hematopoietic and secretory epithelial cells, respectively.19, 78 On the basis of structure/function studies of TIPE2 and TIPE3 and the homology of their shared TH domain, the TIPE family of proteins appears to be involved in phosphoinositide signaling to regulate PI3K and shuttle phospholipids to and from the plasma membrane (Figure 1).19 By regulating PI3K and downstream mediators, including AKT, Rac1, GSK3β, Erk1/2, NF-κB23, 37, 42 and other pathways discussed in this review (summarized in Table 1), the TIPE family modulates critical cellular functions, including regulating immune function, cell migration and the proliferation/apoptosis axis. TIPE1 and TIPE2 appear to be largely inhibitory, that is, they are pro-apoptotic and anti-proliferative. Unlike TIPE1,41 TIPE2, which is expressed in mature T cells,45, 46 also has an important role in immune regulation. In contrast, TNFAIP8 and TIPE3 appear to be largely anti-apoptotic, pro-proliferative and pro-migratory.19, 36 Accordingly, increases in the expression of the anti-apoptotic and pro-migratory TIPE members are associated with a variety of cancers, whereas the expression of pro-apoptotic and anti-migratory family members is decreased in this setting.

Figure 1.

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The TIPE family of proteins regulates a wide array of cellular functions. In this figure and caption, 'TIPE' indicates any TIPE family member. Members of the TIPE family of proteins exert a variety of regulatory functions by acting as phospholipid transfer proteins. Specifically, TIPE3 appears to potentiate PI3K signaling, although all family members potentiate signaling downstream of PI3K to some extent. The TIPE family also appears to act as a negative regulator of signaling by directly binding to specific targets, such as Rac1. PI3K, phosphoinositide-3 kinase; TIPE, tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein 8-like.

Table 1. Human cancer and signaling pathways with known associations with the various TIPE proteins.

TIPE protein Associated human cancers Associated signaling pathways
TNFAIP8 (TIPE0) Endometrial, gastric, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, NSCLC, ovarian, pancreatic, squamous cell Gαi/Gβγ Rac1 mTOR MMP 1 and 9 VEGFR-2
TIPE1 HCC Rac1/mTOR
TIPE2 Colon, gastric, HCC, NSCLC, renal cell, SCLC Caspase-8, Erk1/2, JNK, MMP-9, NF-AT, NF-κB, NF-κB activating protein-1, NOD2, p38, Rac1, STAT3
TIPE3 Cervical, colon, esophageal, lung PI3K, Akt
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Abbreviations: HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; NA-FT, nuclear factor of activated T cells; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; SCLC, small cell lung cancer.

However, the body of literature on these proteins is relatively sparse, and their functional roles largely remain to be determined. TIPE2 has been the subject of the most intensive studies to date, perhaps partly due to the initial observation of its preferential lymphoid expression in mice.45 This observation led to a series of studies that have somewhat elucidated its role in immune system regulation. Despite these studies, the total body of work on all these proteins remains small; based on a PubMed search through 15 June 2016, the number of publications addressing the function of this family of proteins stands as follows: 25, four, 50 and two publications discuss TNFAIP8, TIPE1, TIPE2 and TIPE3, respectively. Consequently, much more is unknown than is known about these proteins. They all seem to have an important role in carcinogenesis and metastasis (Table 1) via either their up- or downregulation, but their exact molecular functions and the existence of any interactions or crosstalk between family members remain unknown.

Given the critical cellular roles members of the TIPE family are involved in, the aforementioned molecular functions and interactions are expected to be elucidated as more investigators enter the field. Given the current state of knowledge, specifically regarding the novel function of these proteins as secondary messenger phospholipid transporters, a better understanding of the function of the TIPE family of proteins could provide key insights into chemotaxis, proliferation and metastasis, with implications for the treatment of a wide array of human diseases, including malignancies and auto-immune diseases. The current era of research is an exciting time for TIPE researchers because this protein family remains on the frontier of molecular and cellular biology.

Footnotes

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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