Pyroptosis: mechanisms and diseases

P Yu, X Zhang, N Liu, L Tang, C Peng… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Currently, pyroptosis has received more and more attention because of its association with
innate immunity and disease. The research scope of pyroptosis has expanded with the …

The regulation of the ZBP1‐NLRP3 inflammasome and its implications in pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis (PANoptosis)

M Zheng, TD Kanneganti - Immunological reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ZBP1 has been characterized as a critical innate immune sensor of not only viral RNA
products but also endogenous nucleic acid ligands. ZBP1 sensing of the Z‐RNA produced …

Emerging activators and regulators of inflammasomes and pyroptosis

Y Xue, DE Tuipulotu, WH Tan, C Kay, SM Man - Trends in immunology, 2019 - cell.com
The inflammasome is a cytosolic immune signaling complex that induces inflammation and
pyroptosis. Inflammasome complexes respond to a variety of pathogens, as well as danger …

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 …

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 …

Pyroptotic cell death defends against intracellular pathogens

I Jorgensen, EA Miao - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammatory caspases play a central role in innate immunity by responding to cytosolic
signals and initiating a twofold response. First, caspase‐1 induces the activation and …

Legionnaires' Disease: State of the Art Knowledge of Pathogenesis Mechanisms of Legionella

S Mondino, S Schmidt, M Rolando… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Legionella species are environmental gram-negative bacteria able to cause a severe form of
pneumonia in humans known as Legionnaires' disease. Since the identification of …

The NLRC4 inflammasome receptors for bacterial flagellin and type III secretion apparatus

Y Zhao, J Yang, J Shi, YN Gong, Q Lu, H Xu, L Liu… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are large cytoplasmic complexes that sense microbial infections/danger
molecules and induce caspase-1 activation-dependent cytokine production and …

Sensing and reacting to microbes through the inflammasomes

L Franchi, R Muñoz-Planillo, G Núñez - Nature immunology, 2012 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that activate caspase-1, which leads to
maturation of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin 1β (IL-1β) and IL-18 and the …

The flagellum in bacterial pathogens: for motility and a whole lot more

B Chaban, HV Hughes, M Beeby - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
The bacterial flagellum is an amazingly complex molecular machine with a diversity of roles
in pathogenesis including reaching the optimal host site, colonization or invasion …