Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

N4BP1 negatively regulates NF-κB by binding and inhibiting NEMO oligomerization

  • Hexin Shi,
  • Lei Sun,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Aijie Liu,
  • Xiaoming Zhan,
  • Xiaohong Li,
  • Miao Tang,
  • Priscilla Anderton,
  • Sara Hildebrand,
  • Jiexia Quan,
  • Sara Ludwig,
  • Eva Marie Y. Moresco,
  • Bruce Beutler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21711-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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NF-κB signalling is critical to TLR mediated cytokine release in various immune responses. Here the authors show how N4BP1 inhibits NEMO signalling and subsequent NF-κB activation and how this pathway is negatively regulated by caspase-8 cleavage of N4BP1.