A 360 view of the inflammasome: Mechanisms of activation, cell death, and diseases

KC Barnett, S Li, K Liang, JPY Ting - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Inflammasomes are critical sentinels of the innate immune system that respond to threats to
the host through recognition of distinct molecules, known as pathogen-or damage …

The NLR family of innate immune and cell death sensors

B Sundaram, RE Tweedell, SP Kumar, TD Kanneganti - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors, also known as nucleotide-
binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs), are a family of cytosolic pattern recognition …

NLRP12-PANoptosome activates PANoptosis and pathology in response to heme and PAMPs

B Sundaram, N Pandian, R Mall, Y Wang, R Sarkar… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cytosolic innate immune sensors are critical for host defense and form complexes, such as
inflammasomes and PANoptosomes, that induce inflammatory cell death. The sensor …

Protein folding stress potentiates NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasome activation

EL Orth-He, HC Huang, SD Rao, Q Wang, Q Chen… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
NLRP1 and CARD8 are related pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) that detect intracellular
danger signals and form inflammasomes. Both undergo autoproteolysis, generating N …

The NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasomes detect reductive stress

Q Wang, JC Hsiao, N Yardeny, HC Huang, CM O'Mara… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The danger signals that activate the related nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat
pyrin domain-containing 1 (NLRP1) and caspase activation and recruitment domain …

Reductive stress in cancer: coming out of the shadows

M Ge, T Papagiannakopoulos, L Bar-Peled - Trends in Cancer, 2024 - cell.com
Redox imbalance is defined by disruption in oxidative and reductive pathways and has a
central role in cancer initiation, development, and treatment. Although redox imbalance has …

The hydrophobicity of the CARD8 N-terminus tunes inflammasome activation

LP Tsamouri, JC Hsiao, Q Wang, MB Geeson… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Mounting evidence indicates that proteotoxic stress is a primary activator of the CARD8
inflammasome, but the complete array of signals that control this inflammasome have not yet …