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ReviewWIREs mechanisms of disease

The noncanonical NFκB pathway: Regulatory mechanisms in health and disease.

Benancio N Rodriguez, Helen Huang, Jennifer J Chia, Alexander Hoffmann

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Review in WIREs mechanisms of disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. UBE2L6 drives ulcerative colitis progression by promoting BIRC2 degradation and activating non-canonical NF-κB signalling.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  18. Development of RelB-targeting small-molecule inhibitors of non-canonical NF-κB signaling with antitumor efficacy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Benancio N RodriguezDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8247-882X
Helen HuangDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6308-346X
Jennifer J ChiaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5060-9442
Alexander HoffmannDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5607-3845
QB3 · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Cell decision underlying B-cell immune responsesR01AI132731 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOFFMANN, ALEXANDER · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
The NFkB System in Dendritic CellsR01AI127867 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOFFMANN, ALEXANDER · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
NFkB Signaling in MacrophagesR01AI127864 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOFFMANN, ALEXANDER · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
The impact of Aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling on Toll like receptor-mediated inflammationR01ES032827 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CHRISTOPH F A VOGEL · 2022 to 2026
$1.7M
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI127864National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI127867National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI132731NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127864NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127867NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132731NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES032827
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The noncanonical NFκB signaling pathway mediates the biological functions of diverse cell survival, growth, maturation, and differentiation factors that are important for the development and maintenance of hematopoietic cells and immune organs. Its dysregulation is associated with a number of immune pathologies and malignancies. Originally described as the signaling pathway that controls the NFκB family member RelB, we now know that noncanonical signaling also controls NFκB RelA and cRel. Here, we aim to clarify our understanding of the molecular network that mediates noncanonical NFκB signaling and review the human diseases that result from a deficient or hyper-active noncanonical NFκB pathway. It turns out that dysregulation of RelA and cRel, not RelB, is often implicated in mediating the resulting pathology. This article is categorized under: Immune System Diseases > Molecular and Cellular Physiology Cancer > Molecular and Cellular Physiology Immune System Diseases > Stem Cells and Development.

Indexed as

NF-kappa BSignal TransductionAnimalsHumansNeoplasmsTranscription Factor RelATranscription Factor RelBNF-kappa BTranscription Factor RelATranscription Factor RelBimmune disordersinflammatory diseaselymphoid cancersNFκBRelB

Identifiers

PMID38634218
PMCPMC11486840
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