lmmol · Proteins

Nuclear factor NF-kappa-B p100 subunit

UniProt Q00653 Organism Homo sapiens Gene LYT10, NFKB2

Also known as: LYT10, NFKB2

Function

NF-kappa-B is a pleiotropic transcription factor present in almost all cell types and is the endpoint of a series of signal transduction events that are initiated by a vast array of stimuli related to many biological processes such as inflammation, immunity, differentiation, cell growth, tumorigenesis and apoptosis. NF-kappa-B is a homo- or heterodimeric complex formed by the Rel-like domain-containing proteins RELA/p65, RELB, NFKB1/p105, NFKB1/p50, REL and NFKB2/p52. The dimers bind at kappa-B sites in the DNA of their target genes and the individual dimers have distinct preferences for different kappa-B sites that they can bind with distinguishable affinity and specificity. Different dimer combinations act as transcriptional activators or repressors, respectively. NF-kappa-B is controlled by various mechanisms of post-translational modification and subcellular compartmentalization as well as by interactions with other cofactors or corepressors. NF-kappa-B complexes are held in the cytoplasm in an inactive state complexed with members of the NF-kappa-B inhibitor (I-kappa-B) family. In a conventional activation pathway, I-kappa-B is phosphorylated by I-kappa-B kinases (IKKs) in response to different activators, subsequently degraded thus liberating the active NF-kappa-B complex which translocates to the nucleus. In a non-canonical activation pathway, the MAP3K14-activated CHUK/IKKA homodimer phosphorylates NFKB2/p100 associated with RelB, inducing its proteolytic processing to NFKB2/p52 and the formation of NF-kappa-B RelB-p52 complexes. The NF-kappa-B heterodimeric RelB-p52 complex is a transcriptional activator. The NF-kappa-B p52-p52 homodimer is a transcriptional repressor. NFKB2 appears to have dual functions such as cytoplasmic retention of attached NF-kappa-B proteins by p100 and generation of p52 by a cotranslational processing. The proteasome-mediated process ensures the production of both p52 and p100 and preserves their independent function. p52 binds to the kappa-B consensus sequence 5'-GGRNNYYCC-3', located in the enhancer region of genes involved in immune response and acute phase reactions. p52 and p100 are respectively the minor and major form; the processing of p100 being relatively poor. Isoform p49 is a subunit of the NF-kappa-B protein complex, which stimulates the HIV enhancer in synergy with p65. In concert with RELB, regulates the circadian clock by repressing the transcriptional activator activity of the CLOCK-BMAL1 heterodimer.

Classification

Family (Pfam)
PF00023 Ank, PF12796 Ank_2, PF00531 Death, PF16179 RHD_dimer, PF00554 RHD_DNA_bind
InterPro
Ankyrin_rpt, Ankyrin_rpt-contain_sf, DEATH-like_dom_sf, Death_dom, Ig-like_fold, Ig_E-set, IPT_dom, IPT_NFkappaB, NFkB/Dor, NFkB_p100_RHD_N, p53-like_TF_DNA-bd_sf, RHD_CS, RHD_dimer, RHD_DNA_bind_dom, RHD_DNA_bind_dom_sf
Functional cluster
Eukaryotic Transcription Factors & related

Experimental structures · PDB · 11

A predicted model is available from AlphaFold.

Gene Ontology · 19

Disease associations

Drugs targeting this protein · 1

Neighborhood · nearest proteins

LYT10Nfkb2NFKB2NFKB1Map3k14BCL3Trim55
Nearest neighbours of Nuclear factor NF-kappa-B p100 subunit: 3 by sequence/function similarity (left); 3 co-cited in the literature (right).

Related proteins · sequence + function similarity

Co-cited proteins · studied together in the literature

Literature · 30 cited papers

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