Table 1 Potential common mechanisms-of-action identified by new necroptosis regulators

From: CRISPR whole-genome screening identifies new necroptosis regulators and RIPK1 alternative splicing

Gene class

Gene (alias)

Gene functionsa

Protein class or domainsa

Inflammatory and apoptotic signaling

N4bp1

Substrate and inhibitor of pro-apoptotic and anti-inflammatory ITCH, which destabilizes RIPK1 (through A20) and TAK1 (through CYLD)

KH (RNA binding), UBA (ubiquitin interaction), and NYN (RNAse) domains

 

Traf1

Dimerizes with TRAF2 to mediate TNFR1 activation of JNK, NF-κB, and anti-apoptotic signals

Adaptor protein

 

Nfkbia (IκBα)

Blocks nuclear import of NF-κB/Rel, and Bax recruitment to VDAC1

Ankyrin repeats

 

Usp9x

Stabilizes ITCH, MCL1, and XIAP

Deubiquitinase

 

Ube2k (Hip2)

Promotes TNFα-mediated NF-κB activation; destabilizes Smac/DIABLO, p53, and Rb

Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme

WNK-OSR1/SPAK signaling

Oxsr1 (Osr1)

Activates Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransporters; inhibits K(+)-Cl(-) cotransporters; osmoregulation; ischemic neuronal cell death

Ser/Thr protien kinase

 

Wnk1

Activates OXSR1 and paralog STK39/SPAK; cell volume recovery during osmotic stress; inhibits autophagy

Ser/Thr protein kinase

Lysosome-endosome-Golgi-ER trafficking and function

C030046E11Rik (Ric1)

Retrograde transport from endosomes to Golgi; Ric1-Rgp1 complex is GEF for late Golgi Rab6A GTPase

WD40 repeat

 

Rgp1

Retrograde transport from endosomes to Golgi; Ric1-Rgp1 complex is GEF for late Golgi Rab6A GTPase

 
 

Cog1 (Ldlb)

Intra-Golgi vesicle, endosome-Golgi, and Golgi-ER retrograde transport to maintain Golgi structure and function

 
 

Cog3 (Sec34)

Intra-Golgi vesicle, endosome-Golgi, and Golgi-ER retrograde transport to maintain Golgi structure and function

 
 

Cog4 (Cod1)

Intra-Golgi vesicle, endosome-Golgi, and Golgi-ER retrograde transport to maintain Golgi structure and function

 
 

Cog6 (Cod2, Cdg2l)

Intra-Golgi vesicle, endosome-Golgi, and Golgi-ER retrograde transport to maintain Golgi structure and function

 
 

Arfrp1 (Arp1, rl18)

Retrograde transport from endosomes to Golgi; Golgi-to-plasma membrane transport

Plasma membrane-associated GTPase

 

Vps29

Retrograde transport from endosomes to Golgi or plasma membrane; retromer complex component

Metallophosphatase superfamily (inactive)

 

Tmed9 (Gmp25, p24alpha2)

Cargo receptor for Golgi-ER retrograde transport (COPI complex component); promotes ER exit of proteins

 
 

Sec23ip (p125A)

ER-Golgi anterograde transport (COPII complex component)

Phospholipase A1 family; SAM domain

 

Atp6ap2 (prorenin receptor)

Stabilizes V-ATPase; acidification of endodomes and lysosomes; endolysosomal protein sorting and degradation; adaptor between V-ATPase and Wnt receptor complex

 
 

Atp6ap1 (Ac45)

Promotes V-ATPases activity; acidification of endodomes and lysosomes; calcium-dependent membrane fusion

 

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD)

Smg7

NMD; stabilizes p53 (promotes ATM phosphorylation of MDM2)

Est1 DNA/RNA binding domain

 

Smg8

NMD

 
 

Upf2

NMD; mRNA nuclear export

 
 

Xrn1

Decapped mRNA degradation; NMD

Exonuclease

 

Ddx6 (Rck)

DCP1 mRNA decapping complex activator; mRNA degradation, translation, and/or translational repression

DEAD-box helicase

mRNA splicing

Ptbp1

Alternative splicing factor; binds mRNA polypyrimidine tracts

RRM (RNA binding) domains

 

Pcbp1

mRNA processing; binds mRNA poly(rC); iron chaperone for metalloproteins

KH (RNA binding) domains

 

Mettl3

N6-methyladenosine [m(6)A]:RNA methyltransferase; regulates splicing and mRNA export, translation, and decay

 
 

Ythdc1 (Yt521)

mRNA methylation [m(6)A] reader protein; alternative splicing factor

YTH [m(6)A-binding] domain

  1. aAnnotations are derived from references cited in the text, or from Gene [Internet] (Bethesda, M): National Library of Medicine, US, National Center for Biotechnology Information; 2017 Jul 09. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/)