IRAK2 mediated activation of TAK1 complex

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R-HSA-937042
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Although IRAK-1 was originally thought to be a key mediator of TRAF6 activation in the IL1R/TLR signaling (Dong W et al. 2006), recent studies showed that IRAK-2, but not IRAK-1, led to TRAF6 polyubiquitination (Keating SE et al 2007). IRAK-2 loss-of-function mutants, with mutated TRAF6-binding motifs, could no longer activate NF-kB and could no longer stimulate TRAF-6 ubiquitination (Keating SE et al 2007). Furthermore, the proxyvirus protein A52 - an inhibitor of all IL-1R/TLR pathways to NF-kB activation, was found to interact with both IRAK-2 and TRAF6, but not IRAK-1. Further work showed that A52 inhibits IRAK-2 functions, whereas association with TRAF6 results in A52-induced MAPK activation. The strong inhibition effect of A52 was also observed on the TLR3-NFkB axis and this observation led to the discovery that IRAK-2 is recruited to TLR3 to activate NF-kB (Keating SE et al 2007). Thus, A52 possibly inhibits MyD88-independent TLR3 pathways to NF-kB via targeting IRAK-2 as it does for other IL-1R/TLR pathways, although it remains unclear how IRAK-2 is involved in TLR3 signaling.

IRAK-2 was shown to have two TRAF6 binding motifs that are responsible for initiating TRAF6 signaling transduction (Ye H et al 2002).

Literature References
PubMed ID Title Journal Year
21606490 Human interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-2 is essential for Toll-like receptor-mediated transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha

Szymak, J, Keating, SE, Bowie, AG, Flannery, SM

J. Biol. Chem. 2011
17878161 IRAK-2 participates in multiple toll-like receptor signaling pathways to NFkappaB via activation of TRAF6 ubiquitination

Maloney, GM, Bowie, AG, Keating, SE, Moran, EM

J Biol Chem 2007
16831874 The IRAK-1-BCL10-MALT1-TRAF6-TAK1 cascade mediates signaling to NF-kappaB from Toll-like receptor 4

Zou, T, Liu, Z, Liu, Y, Xiao, H, Peng, J, Chen, L, Bu, Y, Dong, W, Qi, Y, Li, W

J Biol Chem 2006
12140561 Distinct molecular mechanism for initiating TRAF6 signalling

Vologodskaia, M, Kobayashi, T, Wu, H, Cirilli, M, Lamothe, B, Arron, JR, Pike, JW, Ye, H, Shevde, NK, Choi, Y, Yim, M, Darnay, BG, Du, K, Dzivenu, OK, Segal, D, Singh, S

Nature 2002
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