Nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) represents a family of inducible transcription factors. The transcription factor NF-κB regulates multiple aspects of innate and adaptive immune functions. NF-κB serves as a pivotal mediator of…
Proinflammatory stimuli induce rapid transcriptional responses. They are essential for host defense from infection. An inflammatory response involves a variety of cell types and expression of inflammatory mediators such as…
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a kind of destructive systemic autoimmune disease. Many different inflammatory cells invade the joint synovium. In addition, the destruction of cartilage and bone is due to…
Proteasomes control several cellular processes. They regulate protein degradation, mediate protein homeostasis. Proteasome function is tuned between a ubiquitously expressed constitutive proteasome and an immuno-optimized form, or immunoproteasome. The constitutive…
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease, affecting many people in the industrialized world. Synoviolin (Syvn1) is highly expressed in synoviocytes of patients with RA. Overexpression…