A 360 view of the inflammasome: Mechanisms of activation, cell death, and diseases

KC Barnett, S Li, K Liang, JPY Ting - Cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Inflammasomes are critical sentinels of the innate immune system that respond to threats to
the host through recognition of distinct molecules, known as pathogen-or damage …

The NLR family of innate immune and cell death sensors

B Sundaram, RE Tweedell, SP Kumar, TD Kanneganti - Immunity, 2024‏ - cell.com
Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors, also known as nucleotide-
binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs), are a family of cytosolic pattern recognition …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammasome activation in infected macrophages drives COVID-19 pathology

E Sefik, R Qu, C Junqueira, E Kaffe, H Mirza, J Zhao… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Severe COVID-19 is characterized by persistent lung inflammation, inflammatory cytokine
production, viral RNA and a sustained interferon (IFN) response, all of which are …

Advances in mechanism and regulation of PANoptosis: prospects in disease treatment

P Zhu, ZR Ke, JX Chen, SJ Li, TL Ma… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
PANoptosis, a new research hotspot at the moment, is a cell death pattern in which
pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis all occur in the same cell population. In essence …

Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2: pathogenesis and host responses in the respiratory tract

T Flerlage, DF Boyd, V Meliopoulos… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics and occasional pandemics of respiratory tract
infections that produce a wide spectrum of clinical disease severity in humans. The novel …

The 'cytokine storm': molecular mechanisms and therapeutic prospects

R Karki, TD Kanneganti - Trends in immunology, 2021‏ - cell.com
Cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) has generally been described as a collection of clinical
manifestations resulting from an overactivated immune system. Cytokine storms (CSs) are …

Immune cell profiling of COVID-19 patients in the recovery stage by single-cell sequencing

W Wen, W Su, H Tang, W Le, X Zhang, Y Zheng, X Liu… - Cell discovery, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has recently affected over 1,200,000 people
and killed more than 60,000. The key immune cell subsets change and their states during …

[HTML][HTML] The NLRP3 inflammasome: an overview of mechanisms of activation and regulation

N Kelley, D Jeltema, Y Duan, Y He - International journal of molecular …, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
The NLRP3 inflammasome is a critical component of the innate immune system that
mediates caspase-1 activation and the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β/IL-18 in …

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 …

The PANoptosome: a deadly protein complex driving pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necroptosis (PANoptosis)

P Samir, RKS Malireddi, TD Kanneganti - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Programmed cell death is regulated by evolutionarily conserved pathways that play critical
roles in development and the immune response. A newly recognized pathway for …