Inflammasomes and pyroptosis as therapeutic targets for COVID-19

JKY Yap, M Moriyama, A Iwasaki - The Journal of Immunology, 2020 - journals.aai.org
… Thus, the impairment in antiviral resistance and unregulated inflammasome activation
may underlie the perfect storm for the severe disease we observe in the COVID-19 patients. …

Inflammasome activation at the crux of severe COVID-19

SM Vora, J Lieberman, H Wu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
… indirect inflammasome activation and the critical role of inflammasomes in severe COVID-19. …
Nonetheless, overactivation of inflammasome signalling and pyroptosis are increasingly …

Inflammasome activation and pyroptosis in lymphopenic liver patients with COVID-19

A Kroemer, K Khan, M Plassmeyer… - Journal of …, 2020 - journal-of-hepatology.eu
Pyroptotic T-cell depletion in patients with COVID-19 may not … critical role of the inflammasome
in COVID-19 have therapeutic … prevention of pyroptosis in COVID-19 may be beneficial. …

NLRP3 inflammasome: the stormy link between obesity and COVID-19

A Lopez-Reyes, C Martinez-Armenta… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… clinical symptoms in COVID-19, we aimed to suggest the possible role of NLRP3 inflammasome
as a … cell pyroptosis in COVID-19 may be linked to obesity. In individuals with obesity, …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome activation in infected macrophages drives COVID-19 pathology

E Sefik, R Qu, C Junqueira, E Kaffe, H Mirza, J Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… Morphological analysis of sorted mNG + cells revealed the appearance of membrane
bubbles—a characteristic of pyroptosis—prompting us to investigate inflammasome activation as …

Impaired NLRP3 inflammasome activation/pyroptosis leads to robust inflammatory cell death via caspase-8/RIPK3 during coronavirus infection

M Zheng, EP Williams, RKS Malireddi, R Karki… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
… by coronavirus infection and that impaired NLRP3 inflammasome function or pyroptosis can
… These findings may have important implications for studies of coronavirus-induced disease. …

An evidence that SARS-Cov-2/COVID-19 spike protein (SP) damages hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in the mechanism of pyroptosis in Nlrp3 inflammasome …

M Kucia, J Ratajczak, K Bujko, M Adamiak… - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
… Thus, SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 may directly impair the viability and proliferative potential of
inflammasome leading to pyroptosis. On the other hand, activation of Nlrp3 inflammasome in …

The inflammasome in times of COVID-19

JC de Rivero Vaccari, WD Dietrich, RW Keane… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… ASC, and ORF8b interacts with NLRP3, resulting in inflammasome activation and pyroptosis.
IL-1β is released through the GSDM-DN pore during pyroptosis, while Na + and H 2 O …

The NLRP3 inflammasome and COVID-19: Activation, pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies

N Zhao, B Di, L Xu - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
… is one of the most important innate immune components, which facilitates inflammation by
producing IL-1β/18 and causing pyroptosis. With the development of the inflammatory cascade…

The hidden role of NLRP3 inflammasome in obesity‐related COVID19 exacerbations: lessons for drug repurposing

I Bertocchi, F Foglietta, D Collotta, C Eva… - British journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis as one of the key mechanisms involved in COVID-19
(… Consequently, a further exacerbation of symptoms may derive from the pyroptosis-induced …