Noncanonical NF-κB in Cancer
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Curriculum of Genetics and Molecular Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Biomedicines 2018, 6(2), 66; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines6020066
Received: 10 May 2018
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Revised: 31 May 2018
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Accepted: 4 June 2018
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Published: 5 June 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Roles of NF-κB in Cancer and Their Therapeutic Approaches)
The NF-κB pathway is a critical regulator of immune responses and is often dysregulated in cancer. Two NF-κB pathways have been described to mediate these responses, the canonical and the noncanonical. While understudied compared to the canonical NF-κB pathway, noncanonical NF-κB and its components have been shown to have effects, usually protumorigenic, in many different cancer types. Here, we review noncanonical NF-κB pathways and discuss its important roles in promoting cancer. We also discuss alternative NF-κB-independent functions of some the components of noncanonical NF-κB signaling. Finally, we discuss important crosstalk between canonical and noncanonical signaling, which blurs the two pathways, indicating that understanding the full picture of NF-κB regulation is critical to deciphering how this broad pathway promotes oncogenesis.
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Keywords:
noncanonical NF-κB; cancer; cellular signaling; inflammation; tumor initiating cells; NIK; RelB; p52
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Tegowski, M.; Baldwin, A. Noncanonical NF-κB in Cancer. Biomedicines 2018, 6, 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines6020066
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Tegowski M, Baldwin A. Noncanonical NF-κB in Cancer. Biomedicines. 2018; 6(2):66. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines6020066
Chicago/Turabian StyleTegowski, Matthew, and Albert Baldwin. 2018. "Noncanonical NF-κB in Cancer" Biomedicines 6, no. 2: 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines6020066
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