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ReviewThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2021

Structures and functions of the inflammasome engine.

Longfei Wang, Humayun Sharif, Setu M Vora, Yumei Zheng, Hao Wu

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Review in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. A structural atlas of death domain fold proteins reveals their versatile roles in biology and function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. [Recent research on pyroptosis in sepsis-induced myocardial depression].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2024
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  13. Mechanistic insights from inflammasome structures.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2024
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  15. New prospects of cancer therapy based on pyroptosis and pyroptosis inducers.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Longfei WangDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Humayun SharifDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Setu M VoraDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Yumei ZhengDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Hao WuDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: wu@crystal.harvard.edu.

Funding

MOLECULAR BASIS OF ALLERGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASET32AI007512 · NIAID · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Janet Chou, Peter A Nigrovic · 1996 to 2026
$13.1M
NLRP1 and CARD8 Inflammasomes: Assembly, Regulation and Stress SensingR01AI124491 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI WU, HAO · 2016 to 2025
$5.1M
SMOCs: Novel Signal Transduction Complexes as New Targets for Drug DiscoveryDP1HD087988 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI WU, HAO · 2015 to 2019
$4.4M
Elucidating the structural mechanism of pore formation by the (GSDM) Gasdermin familyR01AI139914 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI WU, HAO · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124491NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139914NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007512NICHD NIH HHS DP1 HD087988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammasomes are molecular machines that carry out inflammatory responses on challenges by pathogens and endogenous dangers. Dysregulation of inflammasome assembly and regulation is associated with numerous human diseases from autoimmunity to cancer. In recent years, significant advances have been made in understanding the mechanism of inflammasome signaling using structural approaches. Here, we review inflammasomes formed by the NLRP1, NLRP3, and NLRC4 sensors, which are well characterized structurally, and discuss the structural and functional diversity among them.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomarkersCalcium-Binding ProteinsCARD Signaling Adaptor ProteinsDisease SusceptibilityHumansInflammasomesNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinNLR ProteinsPyroptosisSignal TransductionBiomarkersCalcium-Binding ProteinsCARD Signaling Adaptor ProteinsInflammasomesNLRC4 protein, humanNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinNLRP1 protein, humanNLR Proteinscaspase-1IL-1InflammasomeNLRC4NLRP1NLRP3pyroptosis

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PMID34092352
PMCPMC8597577

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