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IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 246, Issue -, Pages 95-106Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2012.01108.x
Keywords
ubiquitin; IKK; NF-?B; TAK1; RIG-I; MAVS
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- NIH
- Welch Foundation
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
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A role for polyubiquitination in the activation of inhibitor of NF-?B (I?B) kinase (IKK) through a proteasome-independent mechanism was first reported in 1996, but the physiological significance of this finding was not clear until 2000 when TRAF6 was found to be a ubiquitin E3 ligase that catalyzes lysine-63 (K63) polyubiquitination. Since then, several proteins known to regulate IKK have been linked to the ubiquitin pathway. These include the deubiquitination enzymes CYLD and A20 that inhibit IKK, and the ubiquitin binding proteins NEMO and TAB2 which are the regulatory subunits of IKK and TAK1 kinase complexes, respectively. Now accumulating evidence strongly supports a central role of K63 polyubiquitination in IKK activation by multiple immune and inflammatory pathways. Interestingly, recent research suggests that some alternative ubiquitin chains such as linear or K11 ubiquitin chains may also play a role in certain pathways such as the TNF pathway. Here I present a historical narrative of the discovery of the role of ubiquitin in IKK activation, review recent advances in understanding the role and mechanism of ubiquitin-mediated IKK activation, and raise some questions to be resolved in future research.
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