Although kidney cell-type specific NF-κB functions remain unknown, an increasing body of evidence demonstrated the involvement of this transcription factor in the pathogenesis of renal diseases, such as ischemia/reperfusion AKI, sepsis-induced AKI, glomerulonephritis, or allogenic renal transplantation (Sanz et al., 2010). Here, NFKB1 is linked to acute kidney injury.