| Literature DB >> 26482951 |
Si Ming Man1, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti1.
Abstract
Inflammatory caspases drive a lytic form of cell death called pyroptosis in response to microbial infection and endogenous damage-associated signals. Two studies now demonstrate that cleavage of the substrate gasdermin D by inflammatory caspases necessitates eventual pyroptotic demise of a cell.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26482951 PMCID: PMC4650426 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2015.124
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617