Receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 2 (RIPK2)

Serine/threonine/tyrosine kinase that plays an essential role in modulation of innate and adaptive immune responses. Upon stimulation by bacterial peptidoglycans, NOD1 and NOD2 are triggered, oligomerize and recruit RIPK2 through CARD-CARD domain names.

Contributes to the tyrosine phosphorylation of the guanine exchange factor ARHGEF2 via Src tyrosine kinase resulting in NF-kappaB activation by NOD2. The polyubiquitinated protein mediates the recruitment of MAP3K7/TAK1 into IKBKG/NEMO and induces'Lys-63'-linked polyubiquitination of IKBKG/NEMO and subsequent activation of IKBKB/IKKB.