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Review
. 2015 Mar:39:106-14.
doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2014.03.035. Epub 2014 Apr 6.

IAPs, regulators of innate immunity and inflammation

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IAPs, regulators of innate immunity and inflammation

Yann Estornes et al. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

As indicated by their name, members of the Inhibitor of APoptosis (IAP) family were first believed to be functionally restricted to apoptosis inhibition. It is now clear that IAPs have a much wider spectrum of action, and recent studies even suggest that some of its members primarily regulate inflammatory responses. Inflammation, the first response of the immune system to infection or tissue injury, is highly regulated by ubiquitylation - a posttranslational modification of proteins with various consequences. In this review, we focus on the recently reported functions of XIAP, cIAP1 and cIAP2 as ubiquitin ligases regulating innate immunity and inflammation.

Keywords: IAP; NOD; RIG-I; TLR; TNF.

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