An update on autoinflammatory diseases: relopathies
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Publication Year 2018-05-30,Volume 20,Issue #7,Page 39
Journal Title
Current Rheumatology Reports
Publication Type
Journal Article
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) pathway is tightly regulated through multiple posttranslational mechanisms including ubiquitination. Mutations in these regulatory pathways can cause disease and are the focus of this review. RECENT FINDINGS: The linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex (LUBAC) is a trimer made up of HOIL-1L, SHARPIN, and the catalytic subunit HOIP. Loss of function mutations in HOIL-1L and HOIP result in largely overlapping phenotypes, characterized by multi-organ autoinflammation, immunodeficiency, and amylopectinosis. Interestingly, patient fibroblasts exhibited diminished IL-1beta- and TNF-induced NF-kappaB activation, yet monocytes were hyper-responsive to IL-1beta, hinting at cell type or target specific roles of LUBAC-mediated ubiquitination. Ubiquitin-driven signaling is counterbalanced by deubiquitinase enzymes (DUBs), such as OTULIN and A20. Hypomorphic mutations in OTULIN result in elevated NF-kappaB signaling causing an autoinflammatory syndrome. Similarly, patients with high-penetrance heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding A20 (haploinsufficiency of A20 (HA20)) display excessive ubiquitination and increased activity of NF-kappaB and of NLRP3 inflammasome activation. HA20 patients present with Behcet-like characteristics or an autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS)-like phenotype, indicating diverse protein functions. This review summarizes recent discoveries in the field of NF-kB-related autoinflammatory diseases (relopathies) within the past 3 years and points to several questions that still remain unanswered.
Publisher
Springer
Research Division(s)
Inflammation
PubMed ID
29846841
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