Lipopolysaccharide delivery systems in innate immunity

J Liu, R Kang, D Tang - Trends in Immunology, 2024 - cell.com
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a key component of the outer membrane in Gram-negative
bacteria (GNB), is widely recognized for its crucial role in mammalian innate immunity and …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing Pyroptosis for Cancer Immunotherapy

CM Bourne, CY Taabazuing - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cancer immunotherapy is a novel pillar of cancer treatment that harnesses the immune
system to fight tumors and generally results in robust antitumor immunity. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Caspase-5: Structure, Pro-Inflammatory Activity and Evolution

L Eckhart, H Fischer - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Caspase-5 is a protease that induces inflammation in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS),
a component of the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria. The expression level of the …

Inflammasome-independent pyroptosis

X Liu, J Lieberman - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2024 - Elsevier
Gasdermins are membrane pore–forming proteins that cause pyroptosis, an inflammatory
cell death in which cells burst and release cytokines, chemokines, and other host alarm …

Poking holes in the blood-brain barrier

X Ma, J Lieberman - Immunity, 2024 - Elsevier
Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is implicated in disrupting the blood-brain barrier (BBB).
In a recent issue of Nature, Wei et al. now show that LPS activates the inflammatory …

Inflammatory caspase substrate specificities

PM Exconde, CM Bourne, M Kulkarni, BM Discher… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases that act as molecular scissors to cleave
substrates and regulate biological processes such as programmed cell death and …