[HTML][HTML] Synergism of TNF-α and IFN-γ triggers inflammatory cell death, tissue damage, and mortality in SARS-CoV-2 infection and cytokine shock syndromes

R Karki, BR Sharma, S Tuladhar, EP Williams… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
COVID-19 is characterized by excessive production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and acute
lung damage associated with patient mortality. While multiple inflammatory cytokines are …

Pyroptosis, inflammasome, and gasdermins in tumor immunity

X Ouyang, J Zhou, L Lin, Z Zhang, S Luo… - Innate …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The gasdermins (GSDM), a family of pore-forming proteins, consist of gasdermin A
(GSDMA), gasdermin B (GSDMB), gasdermin C (GSDMC), gasdermin D (GSDMD) …

Lipid-protein interactions regulating the canonical and the non-canonical NLRP3 inflammasome

M Pizzuto, P Pelegrin, JM Ruysschaert - Progress in lipid research, 2022 - Elsevier
The inflammatory response is a complex regulated effector mechanism of the innate immune
system that is initiated after tissue injury or infection. The NLRP3 inflammasome is an …

Infiltration of inflammatory macrophages and neutrophils and widespread pyroptosis in lung drive influenza lethality in nonhuman primates

J Corry, G Kettenburg, AA Upadhyay, M Wallace… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Severe influenza kills tens of thousands of individuals each year, yet the mechanisms
driving lethality in humans are poorly understood. Here we used a unique translational …

The non-canonical inflammasome activators Caspase-4 and Caspase-5 are differentially regulated during immunosuppression-associated organ damage

M Ghait, SN Duduskar, M Rooney, N Häfner… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The non-canonical inflammasome, which includes caspase-11 in mice and caspase-4 and
caspase-5 in humans, is upregulated during inflammatory processes and activated in …

COVID-19 cytokines and the hyperactive immune response: Synergism of TNF-α and IFN-γ in triggering inflammation, tissue damage, and death

R Karki, BR Sharma, S Tuladhar, EP Williams… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant morbidity and mortality. Currently, there is a
critical shortage of proven treatment options and an urgent need to understand the …

Role of gasdermin family proteins in cancers

X Yang, Z Tang - International Journal of Oncology, 2023 - spandidos-publications.com
The gasdermin (GSDM) family comprises six proteins, including GSDMA‑GSDME and
Pejvakin. Most of these proteins have a crucial role in inducing pyroptosis; in particular …

Inflammasome activation in pulmonary arterial hypertension

A Foley, BE Steinberg, NM Goldenberg - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Inflammasomes are multi-protein complexes that sense both infectious and sterile
inflammatory stimuli, launching a cascade of responses to propagate danger signaling …

Position-specific secondary acylation determines detection of lipid A by murine TLR4 and caspase-11

EM Harberts, D Grubaugh, DC Akuma… - Infection and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Immune sensing of the Gram-negative bacterial membrane glycolipid lipopolysaccharide
(LPS) is both a critical component of host defense against bacterial infection and a …

Shigella OspC3 suppresses murine cytosolic LPS sensing

C Oh, A Verma, M Hafeez, B Hogland, Y Aachoui - IScience, 2021 - cell.com
Shigella flexneri, a cytosol-invasive gram-negative pathogen, deploys an array of type III-
secreted effector proteins to evade host cell defenses. Caspase-11 and its human ortholog …