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. 2020 Mar 17;6:14. doi: 10.1038/s41420-020-0249-4

Fig. 1. KRAS-mediated rewiring of TRAIL signaling.

Fig. 1

Cancer cell-produced TRAIL can bin TRAIL-R2 leading to autocrine cell-autonomous stimulation of Rac1-dependent migration. This signal is independent of the death domain (DD) but requires the membrane-proximal domain (MPD) of TRAIL-R2. Rac1 activity is normally inhibited by ROCK. Upon oncogenic activation of KRAS, KRAS inhibits ROCK, thereby releasing Rac1 to be fully activated by TRAIL-R2.