Inflammasomes as therapeutic targets in human diseases

Y Li, H Huang, B Liu, Y Zhang, X Pan, XY Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are protein complexes of the innate immune system that initiate
inflammation in response to either exogenous pathogens or endogenous danger signals …

[HTML][HTML] Age and age-related diseases: role of inflammation triggers and cytokines

IM Rea, DS Gibson, V McGilligan… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cytokine dysregulation is believed to play a key role in the remodeling of the immune
system at older age, with evidence pointing to an inability to fine-control systemic …

Ubiquitination in the regulation of inflammatory cell death and cancer

PE Cockram, M Kist, S Prakash, SH Chen… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
The ubiquitin system is complex, multifaceted, and is crucial for the modulation of a vast
number of cellular processes. Ubiquitination is tightly regulated at different levels by a range …

Oridonin is a covalent NLRP3 inhibitor with strong anti-inflammasome activity

H He, H Jiang, Y Chen, J Ye, A Wang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Oridonin (Ori) is the major active ingredient of the traditional Chinese medicinal herb
Rabdosia rubescens and has anti-inflammatory activity, but the target of Ori remains …

Inflammation, infection and venous thromboembolism

ME Colling, BE Tourdot, Y Kanthi - Circulation research, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
The association between inflammation, infection, and venous thrombosis has long been
recognized; yet, only in the last decades have we begun to understand the mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] The pyrin inflammasome in health and disease

O Schnappauf, JJ Chae, DL Kastner… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The pyrin inflammasome has evolved as an innate immune sensor to detect bacterial toxin-
induced Rho guanosine triphosphatase (Rho GTPase)-inactivation, a process that is similar …

Identification of a selective and direct NLRP3 inhibitor to treat inflammatory disorders

H Jiang, H He, Y Chen, W Huang, J Cheng… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
The NLRP3 inflammasome has been implicated in the pathogenesis of a wide variety of
human diseases. A few compounds have been developed to inhibit NLRP3 inflammasome …

Functional hallmarks of healthy macrophage responses: their regulatory basis and disease relevance

KM Sheu, A Hoffmann - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Macrophages are first responders for the immune system. In this role, they have both effector
functions for neutralizing pathogens and sentinel functions for alerting other immune cells of …

Tranilast directly targets NLRP 3 to treat inflammasome‐driven diseases

Y Huang, H Jiang, Y Chen, X Wang, Y Yang… - EMBO molecular …, 2018 - embopress.org
The dysregulation of NLRP 3 inflammasome can cause uncontrolled inflammation and drive
the development of a wide variety of human diseases, but the medications targeting NLRP 3 …

Innate immune pattern recognition: a cell biological perspective

SW Brubaker, KS Bonham, I Zanoni… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Receptors of the innate immune system detect conserved determinants of microbial and viral
origin. Activation of these receptors initiates signaling events that culminate in an effective …