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Open AccessThe immunological function of familial Mediterranean fever disease protein Pyrin
Pyrin, encoded by MEFV gene, is conserved in humans and mice. Mutations in the MEFV gene are associated with the human autoinflammatory disease familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). Pyrin can interact with the infl...
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Innate immune sensing of bacterial modifications of Rho GTPases by the Pyrin inflammasome
The Pyrin inflammasome detects the presence of a pathogen not through recognition of a microbial molecule but by the activity of a bacterial toxin that modifies host Rho activity.
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The NLRC4 inflammasome receptors for bacterial flagellin and type III secretion apparatus
The inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes involved in innate immunity, and induce an immune response to pathogenic microbes by activating the caspase 1 protease. Two groups now report that the intracellular...
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Chemical probing reveals insights into the signaling mechanism of inflammasome activation
Caspase-1-mediated IL-1β production is generally controlled by two pathways. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize pathogen-derived products and induce NF-κB-dependent pro-IL-1β transcription; NOD-like receptor...