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IRAK1 (Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1) is a protein kinase, an enzyme that switches other proteins on by adding phosphate groups. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a tumour suppressor, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Myeloproliferative neoplasms and Multiple myeloma. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Serine/threonine-protein kinase that plays a critical role in initiating innate immune response against foreign pathogens. Involved in Toll-like receptor (TLR) and IL-1R signalling pathways. Is rapidly recruited by MYD88 to the receptor-signalling complex upon TLR activation. Association with MYD88 leads to IRAK1 phosphorylation by IRAK4 and subsequent autophosphorylation and kinase activation. Phosphorylates E3 ubiquitin ligases Pellino proteins (PELI1, PELI2 and PELI3) to promote pellino-mediated polyubiquitination of IRAK1. Then, the ubiquitin-binding domain of IKBKG/NEMO binds to polyubiquitinated IRAK1 bringing together the IRAK1-MAP3K7/TAK1-TRAF6 complex and the NEMO-IKKA-IKKB complex. Location: Cytoplasm; Nucleus; Lipid droplet (UniProt). Locus Xq28 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Myeloproliferative neoplasms: Open Targets association 0.58 with myeloproliferative neoplasm (MONDO_0020076)
  • Multiple myeloma: IntOGen driver in 1 cohort (PCM)
Class: kinase · Gene: IRAK1 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"IRAK1" OR ABSTRACT:"IRAK1" OR TITLE:"interleukin 1 receptor associated kinase 1" OR ABSTRACT:"interleukin 1 receptor associated kinase 1" OR TITLE:"Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1" OR ABSTRACT:"Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 1" OR TITLE:"pelle" OR ABSTRACT:"pelle") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about IRAK1, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/irak1.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.