NFkB is a family of transcription factors that play pivotal ...

created [InstanceEdit:9604478] Shamovsky, Veronica, 2018-04-03
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text NFkB is a family of transcription factors that play pivotal roles in immune, inflammatory, and antiapoptotic responses. There are five NF-kB/Rel family members, p65 (RelA), RelB, c-Rel, p50/p105 (NF-kappa-B1) and p52/p100 (NFkappa-B2), All members of the NFkB family contain a highly conserved DNA-binding and dimerization domain called Rel-homology region (RHR). The RHR is responsible for homo- or heterodimerization. Therefore, NF-kappa-B exists in unstimulated cells as homo or heterodimers; the most common heterodimer is p65/p50. NF-kappa-B is sequestered in the cytosol of unstimulated cells through the interactions with a class of inhibitor proteins called IkBs, which mask the nuclear localization signal of NF-kB and prevent its nuclear translocation. Various stimuli induce the activation of the IkB kinase (IKK) complex, which then phosphorylates IkBs. The phosphorylated IkBs are ubiquitinated and then degraded through the proteasome-mediated pathway. The degradation of IkBs releases NF-kappa-B and and it can be transported into nucleus where it induces the expression of target genes.

DExH/D-box helicase (DHX9)-mediated sensing of CpG-B trigger downstream signaling to NF-?appa B. Knockdown of DHX9 expression by RNA interference in the CpG-B-treated human plasmacytoid dendritic cell line Gen2.2 inhibited nuclear localization of p50 (NF-kappa-B1) subunit of NF-?appa B complex (Kim T et al. 2010).

DNA-dependent activator of IRFs/Z-DNA binding protein 1 (ZBP1 or DAI) recruits RIP1 and RIP3 through RIP homotypic interaction motifs to activate NF-kappaB (Rebsamen M et al. 2009).

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