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Jon Alan Hagar1, Youssef Aachoui1, Edward Axel Miao1.
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Inflammasomes are sensors that serve as activation platforms for caspase-1 - a mechanism that set the prevailing paradigm for inflammatory caspase activation. A recent Nature paper by Shi et al. upends this paradigm by describing an unprecedented model for caspase activation whereby caspase-4, -5, and -11 directly bind their agonist, cytosolic LPS, triggering auto-activation and subsequent pyroptotic cell death.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25267404 PMCID: PMC4650564 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2014.128
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617