Mistuned NF-κB signaling in lymphocytes: lessons from relevant inborn errors of immunity.

Gina Dabbah-Krancher, Andrew L Snow

Clinical and experimental immunology 2023 Apr 25

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Inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) continuously remind us that multiple checks and balances are built into the adaptive immune system to maintain homeostasis, ensuring effective pathogen defense without causing inadvertent immunopathology, autoimmunity, or lymphomagenesis. The nuclear factor of κB (NF-κB) family of transcription factors serve a vital role in the immune system, inducing scores of genes responsible for lymphocyte survival, proliferation, differentiation and effector function. In recent years, the discovery and characterization of IEIs that impact NF-κB activity have illuminated the importance of carefully tuning this pathway to ensure effective immune defense without hyperinflammation and immune dysregulation. Here we examine several illustrative cases of IEIs that arise from pathogenic mutations encoding NF-κB inducers, regulators, and NF-κB family components themselves, illuminating how these genes ensure normal adaptive immune system function by maintaining a "Goldilocks effect" state in NF-κB pathway activity. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Immunology 2023.

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Gina Dabbah-Krancher, Andrew L Snow. Mistuned NF-κB signaling in lymphocytes: lessons from relevant inborn errors of immunity. Clinical and experimental immunology. 2023 Apr 25;212(2):117-128