Inflammasomes: mechanism of assembly, regulation and signalling

P Broz, VM Dixit - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are multiprotein signalling platforms that control the inflammatory response
and coordinate antimicrobial host defences. They are assembled by pattern-recognition …

Inflammasome activation and assembly at a glance

A Malik, TD Kanneganti - Journal of cell science, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Inflammasomes are multimeric protein complexes that typically comprise a sensor, an
adaptor and the zymogen procaspase-1. An inflammasome assembles in response to a …

Phase separation drives RNA virus-induced activation of the NLRP6 inflammasome

C Shen, R Li, R Negro, J Cheng, SM Vora, TM Fu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
NLRP6 is important in host defense by inducing functional outcomes including
inflammasome activation and interferon production. Here, we show that NLRP6 undergoes …

The cell biology of inflammasomes: Mechanisms of inflammasome activation and regulation

D Sharma, TD Kanneganti - Journal of Cell Biology, 2016 - rupress.org
Over the past decade, numerous advances have been made in the role and regulation of
inflammasomes during pathogenic and sterile insults. An inflammasome complex comprises …

The role of inflammasomes in human diseases and their potential as therapeutic targets

J Yao, K Sterling, Z Wang, Y Zhang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are large protein complexes that play a major role in sensing inflammatory
signals and triggering the innate immune response. Each inflammasome complex has three …

NLR members NLRC4 and NLRP3 mediate sterile inflammasome activation in microglia and astrocytes

L Freeman, H Guo, CN David, WJ Brickey… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
Inflammation in the brain accompanies several high-impact neurological diseases including
multiple sclerosis (MS), stroke, and Alzheimer's disease. Neuroinflammation is sterile, as …

The NLRC 4 inflammasome

JA Duncan, SW Canna - Immunological reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 15 years ago, the fundamental biology of an inflammatory signaling complex
eventually dubbed “the inflammasome” began to unravel in chronologic parallel with the …

Mechanisms governing inflammasome activation, assembly and pyroptosis induction

S Kesavardhana, TD Kanneganti - International Immunology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Inflammasomes are multimeric protein complexes that regulate inflammatory responses and
pyroptotic cell death to exert host defense against microbes. Intracellular pattern-recognition …

The structural basis of flagellin detection by NAIP5: A strategy to limit pathogen immune evasion

JL Tenthorey, N Haloupek, JR López-Blanco, P Grob… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Robust innate immune detection of rapidly evolving pathogens is critical for host defense.
Nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins function as cytosolic innate …

A comparative overview of the intracellular guardians of plants and animals: NLRs in innate immunity and beyond

Z Duxbury, C Wu, P Ding - Annual review of plant biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) play important roles in the
innate immune systems of both plants and animals. Recent breakthroughs in NLR …