Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Major vault protein suppresses obesity and atherosclerosis through inhibiting IKK–NF-κB signaling mediated inflammation

  • Jingjing Ben,
  • Bin Jiang,
  • Dongdong Wang,
  • Qingling Liu,
  • Yongjing Zhang,
  • Yu Qi,
  • Xing Tong,
  • Lili Chen,
  • Xianzhong Liu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xudong Zhu,
  • Xiaoyu Li,
  • Hanwen Zhang,
  • Hui Bai,
  • Qing Yang,
  • Junqing Ma,
  • Erik A. C. Wiemer,
  • Yong Xu,
  • Qi Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09588-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Metabolic diseases are associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation. Here the authors show that major vault protein (MVP) suppresses NF-κB signalling in macrophages via an IRAK1–TRAF6 axis and that loss of MVP in myeloid cells exacerbates the inflammatory response in mice fed a high fat diet.