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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2009

The NF-kappaB family of transcription factors and its regulation.

Andrea Oeckinghaus, Sankar Ghosh

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,610 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,610 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 2,775 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrea OeckinghausDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Sankar Ghosh
Yale University · US

Funding

Regulation of NF-kB and IkB ProteinsR37AI033443 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GHOSH, SANKAR · 2001 to 2010
$3.4M
Understanding the Role of kB Ras Proteins in Signaling and DevelopmentR01AI093985 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GHOSH, SANKAR · 2011 to 2015
$2.1M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI093985NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI033443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) consists of a family of transcription factors that play critical roles in inflammation, immunity, cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival. Inducible NF-kappaB activation depends on phosphorylation-induced proteosomal degradation of the inhibitor of NF-kappaB proteins (IkappaBs), which retain inactive NF-kappaB dimers in the cytosol in unstimulated cells. The majority of the diverse signaling pathways that lead to NF-kappaB activation converge on the IkappaB kinase (IKK) complex, which is responsible for IkappaB phosphorylation and is essential for signal transduction to NF-kappaB. Additional regulation of NF-kappaB activity is achieved through various post-translational modifications of the core components of the NF-kappaB signaling pathways. In addition to cytosolic modifications of IKK and IkappaB proteins, as well as other pathway-specific mediators, the transcription factors are themselves extensively modified. Tremendous progress has been made over the last two decades in unraveling the elaborate regulatory networks that control the NF-kappaB response. This has made the NF-kappaB pathway a paradigm for understanding general principles of signal transduction and gene regulation.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsCell ProliferationCytosolDimerizationHumansImmune SystemModels, BiologicalNF-kappa BProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsNF-kappa BTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID20066092
PMCPMC2773619
OpenAlexW2124343538

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