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Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 17

Encoded byTNFRSF17Q02223Homo sapiensSwiss-Prot
Clinically validated
Therapeutic maturity
5
Approved medicines
Open Targets target-level
View by indication →
30
Clinical trials
Antibody-tractable
Druggability
Approved Drug

Protein at a glance

Biological role

Signaling receptor

Strongest disease association

Gastric carcinoma

Via encoding gene TNFRSF17 · Genetic evidence · score 0.57

Therapeutic position

Established drug target

Antibodies

Research activity

Emerging research

10 papers · latest 2024

Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.

Protein profile

UniProt 2026_02

Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.

Function overview

Receptor for TNFSF13B/BLyS/BAFF and TNFSF13/APRIL.

View complete UniProt function annotation

Receptor for TNFSF13B/BLyS/BAFF and TNFSF13/APRIL. Promotes B-cell survival and plays a role in the regulation of humoral immunity. Activates NF-kappa-B and JNK

Subcellular location

Cell membraneEndomembrane system
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (7)

Gene Ontology

  • Cendomembrane system
  • Cmembrane
  • Cplasma membrane
  • Fsignaling receptor activity
  • Padaptive immune response
  • Psignal transduction
  • Ptumor necrosis factor-mediated signaling pathway

184 aa · 20 kDa · 2 isoforms

Biological roles

Reactome v97

What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.

Cell proliferation & survivalUniProt
View supporting evidence

Cell proliferation & survival

  • ·Receptor for TNFSF13B/BLyS/BAFF and TNFSF13/APRIL. Promotes B-cell survival and plays a…
View underlying pathways (1)

Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.

Interaction neighbourhood

STRING v12.0

Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.

TNFSF1…MZB1TNFSF13TNFRSF…TNFRSF…CD40LGJCHAINPOU2AF1CD27CD40TNFRSF17

10 strongest partners — larger node and heavier line mean higher confidence

Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.

Approved medicines with mapped indications

5 medicines · 8 areas

Approved therapies targeting this protein, grouped by what they are approved to treat — the disease-first view of the medicines below. Relationships come from the canonical approved-indication graph (ChEMBL phase-4), the same source as the drug cards.

Hematologic Diseases1 medicine
Immune System Diseases1 medicine
Infectious Mononucleosis1 medicine
Paraproteinemias1 medicine
Vascular Diseases1 medicine
Broader indication categories (2)

Broad umbrella indications (e.g. “Neoplasms”). Shown here because every medicine also appears under a more specific disease above — kept for completeness, de-emphasised for clarity.

Approved indications from ChEMBL (phase-4), via the canonical drug→disease graph.

Drugs targeting this protein

5

How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.

idecabtagene vicleucel
Narrow target profileApprovedBinding agent

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 17 binding agent

Indicated for Hematologic Diseases, Immune System Diseases, Infectious Mononucleosis, Multiple Myeloma

Direct interaction with this protein · Only this protein recorded as a target

ciltacabtagene autoleucel
Narrow target profileApprovedBinding agent

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 17 binding agent

Indicated for Multiple Myeloma

Direct interaction with this protein · Only this protein recorded as a target

belantamab mafodotin
ApprovedBinding agent

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 17 binding agent

Indicated for Multiple Myeloma, Neoplasms

Direct interaction with this protein · 1 of 16 recorded protein targets — broad pharmacology

elranatamab
ApprovedBinding agent

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 17 binding agent

Indicated for Multiple Myeloma, Neoplasms

Direct interaction with this protein · 1 of 4 recorded protein targets

teclistamab
ApprovedBinding agent

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 17 binding agent

Indicated for Multiple Myeloma, Neoplasms

Direct interaction with this protein · 1 of 4 recorded protein targets

ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.

Translational evidence

Open Targets 26

Why this target matters therapeutically, strongest evidence first. Disease associations are gene-level (via the gene that encodes this protein) and open into the full confidence synthesis; the development universe, tractability and safety annotations are target-level, from Open Targets.

Strongest disease associations · via encoding gene TNFRSF17

Gene-level evidence surfaced through the gene TNFRSF17that encodes this protein — not a direct protein–disease relationship. Ranked by Forefront's causal-directness weighting, so genetically- and clinically-evidenced diseases lead over ones that merely share the literature.

Multiple Myeloma
0.84Well supported

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.68

Gastric carcinoma
0.71Moderately supported

Genetic evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.42

Neoplasms
0.70Moderately supported

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.55

Plasma cell neoplasm
0.47Limited support

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.37

Paraproteinemias
0.46Limited support

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.37

View evidence synthesis (5)
Multiple MyelomaWell supported
0.84
agreement 0.720.96
Clinical63%Somatic mutation25%Literature12%

Open Targets aggregate 0.68 · 3 independent evidence families

Gastric carcinomaModerately supported
0.71
agreement 0.600.82
Genetic64%Somatic mutation33%RNA expression3%

Open Targets aggregate 0.42 · 3 independent evidence families

NeoplasmsModerately supported
0.70
agreement 0.540.85
Clinical82%Literature18%

Open Targets aggregate 0.55 · 2 independent evidence families

Plasma cell neoplasmLimited support
0.47
agreement 0.310.62
Clinical96%Literature4%

Open Targets aggregate 0.37 · 2 independent evidence families

ParaproteinemiasLimited support
0.46
agreement 0.310.62
Clinical97%Literature3%

Open Targets aggregate 0.37 · 2 independent evidence families

The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the per-type scores above show the calculation.

Show all associations
Multiple Myeloma0.68
Neoplasms0.55
Gastric carcinoma0.42
Neurodegenerative Diseases0.38
Plasma cell neoplasm0.37
Paraproteinemias0.37
Cardiovascular Diseases0.37
Immune System Diseases0.37
Exocrine pancreatic carcinoma0.37

Drug development

5 compounds recorded · 5 approved

Open Targets' development universe — every compound recorded against the target at any stage, not all approved medicines. Distinct from the 5 drugs that target this protein in Forefront's canonical graph (5 with a mapped approved indication, shown above): these count different sets and are not a subset relation.

View all recorded compounds (5)
IDECABTAGENE VICLEUCELApproval
BELANTAMAB MAFODOTINApproval
CILTACABTAGENE AUTOLEUCELApproval
ELRANATAMABApproval
TECLISTAMABApproval

Open Targets known-drugs universe. Drug name and highest clinical stage only — the disease relationship is NOT read from this slice (it carries trial-context noise); approved indications come from the canonical graph above.

Tractability

AntibodiesStrong

Approved Drug and GO CC high conf support this modality.

Protein degradersEmerging

Feasibility evidence (database ubiquitination) — no clinical-stage drug of this modality recorded.

Other modalitiesStrong

Approved Drug support this modality.

View underlying tractability evidence (6)
AB · Approved DrugAB · GO CC high confAB · UniProt loc med confAB · UniProt SigP or TMHMMPR · Database UbiquitinationOC · Approved Drug

Raw Open Targets tractability assessment buckets, by modality.

Clinical trials

30

Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.

View all trials (26)

ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.

What's happening now

10

Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for 5 drugs that target this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.

  1. Trial status changed2026-07-30

    64407564MMY3009: A Phase 3 Randomized Study Comparing Talquetamab in Combination With Pomalidomide (Tal-P), Talquetamab in Combination With Teclistamab (Tal-Tec), and Investigator's Choice of Either Elotuzumab, Pomalidomide, and Dexamethasone (EPd) or Pom

    Status changed to Active, not recruiting · ClinicalTrials.gov · via teclistamab

  2. Trial status changed2026-07-20

    A Phase II Trial of Teclistamab in Participants With Previously Treated Immunoglobulin Light-chain (AL) Amyloidosis

    Status changed to Active, not recruiting · ClinicalTrials.gov · via teclistamab

  3. Regulatory approval2025-07-23

    Approval: Blenrep (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via belantamab mafodotin

  4. Withdrawn from market2024-02-23

    Market withdrawal: Blenrep (EMA)

    ema · market · ema · via belantamab mafodotin

  5. Regulatory approval2023-12-07

    Approval: Elrexfio (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via elranatamab

  6. Regulatory approval2022-08-23

    Approval: Tecvayli (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via teclistamab

  7. Regulatory approval2022-05-25

    Approval: Carvykti (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via ciltacabtagene autoleucel

  8. Regulatory approval2021-08-18

    Approval: Abecma (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via idecabtagene vicleucel

  9. New publication2021-02-01
    Idecabtagene Vicleucel in Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma.

    The New England journal of medicine · 2021 · 1,903 citations · Europe PMC · via idecabtagene vicleucel

  10. New publication2020-09-17
    BCMA-targeted immunotherapy for multiple myeloma.

    Journal of hematology & oncology · 2020 · 165 citations · Europe PMC · via belantamab mafodotin

Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.

Research activity

10 papers · to 2024

Papers linked directly to this protein. This is the protein's own literature — descriptor-derived papers are kept separate below.

Most cited

Recent

Long-term outcomes following CAR T cell therapy: what we know so far.

Cappell KM · Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2023

GPRC5D-Targeted CAR T Cells for Myeloma.

Mailankody S · The New England journal of medicine · 2022

BCMA-targeted immunotherapy for multiple myeloma.

Yu B · Journal of hematology & oncology · 2020

Anti-BCMA CAR T-Cell Therapy bb2121 in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma.

Raje N · The New England journal of medicine · 2019

Europe PMC papers linked directly to this protein.