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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2021

From pyroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis to PANoptosis: A mechanistic compendium of programmed cell death pathways.

Yaqiu Wang, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 342 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
342citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
24.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

342 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 487 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. How to recognize if a cell dies from pyroptosis?Molecular biology reports · 2026
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282 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yaqiu WangDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Thirumala-Devi KannegantiDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · US

Funding

Innate immune sensors, inflammasomes, and inflammasome-mediated processes in cancerR35CA253095 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti · 2020 to 2026
$7.0M
Role of NLR Inflammasomes in Autoinflammatory Diseases and Host DefenseR01AR056296 · NIAMS · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI KANNEGANTI, THIRUMALA-DEVI · 2008 to 2022
$5.9M
The Non-Inflammasome NLRs in Immunity and Host defenseR01AI124346 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti · 2016 to 2026
$5.8M
Inflammatory Caspases in Innate Immunity and InflammationR37AI101935 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti · 2017 to 2026
$4.9M
Targeting innate immune pathways, and inflammatory cell death in cytokine-mediated diseasesR01AI160179 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI KANNEGANTI, THIRUMALA-DEVI · 2021 to 2025
$4.2M
Inflammatory Caspases in Innate Immunity and InflammationR01AI101935 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI KANNEGANTI, THIRUMALA-DEVI · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA253095NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI101935NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124346NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI160179NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI101935NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR056296
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis are the most genetically well-defined programmed cell death (PCD) pathways, and they are intricately involved in both homeostasis and disease. Although the identification of key initiators, effectors and executioners in each of these three PCD pathways has historically delineated them as distinct, growing evidence has highlighted extensive crosstalk among them. These observations have led to the establishment of the concept of PANoptosis, defined as an inflammatory PCD pathway regulated by the PANoptosome complex with key features of pyroptosis, apoptosis and/or necroptosis that cannot be accounted for by any of these PCD pathways alone. In this review, we provide a brief overview of the research history of pyroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis. We then examine the intricate crosstalk among these PCD pathways to discuss the current evidence for PANoptosis. We also detail the molecular evidence for the assembly of the PANoptosome complex, a molecular scaffold for contemporaneous engagement of key molecules from pyroptosis, apoptosis, and/or necroptosis. PANoptosis is now known to be critically involved in many diseases, including infection, sterile inflammation and cancer, and future discovery of novel PANoptotic components will continue to broaden our understanding of the fundamental processes of cell death and inform the development of new therapeutics.

Indexed as

ApoptosisASCCaspase-1Caspase-3Caspase-7Caspase-8Cell deathGasdermin DGasdermin EInflammasomeMLKLNecroptosisNLRP3PANoptosisPANoptosomePyroptosisRIPK3ZBP1

Identifiers

PMID34504660
PMCPMC8405902
OpenAlexW3193190854

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