Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Ubiquitination of RIPK1 suppresses programmed cell death by regulating RIPK1 kinase activation during embryogenesis

  • Xixi Zhang,
  • Haiwei Zhang,
  • Chengxian Xu,
  • Xiaoming Li,
  • Ming Li,
  • Xiaoxia Wu,
  • Wenjuan Pu,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Haikun Wang,
  • Dali Li,
  • Qiurong Ding,
  • Hao Ying,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Haibing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11839-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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RIPK1 integrates signals that drive both NF-κB activation and cell death pathways. Here Zhang et al. generate RIPK1 knock-in mice lacking a major ubiquitination site and demonstrate that this modification is important to suppress cell death during embryogenesis and inflammation postnatally.