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ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2022

Programming inflammatory cell death for therapy.

Shelbi Christgen, Rebecca E Tweedell, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti

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Review in Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 173 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
173citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.7field-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

173 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 271 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Metabolic cell death in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic potential.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2025
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  9. Programmed Cell Death in Chronic Rhinosinusitis.Clinical and translational allergy · 2026
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  16. Targeting PANoptosis in atherosclerosis: bridging cell death mechanisms and therapy.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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113 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shelbi ChristgenDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Rebecca E TweedellDepartment 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. Electronic address: Thirumala-Devi.Kanneganti@StJude.org.
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

Programmed cell death (PCD) is an essential part of organismal development and plays fundamental roles in host defense against pathogens and the maintenance of homeostasis. However, excess activation of PCD pathways has proven to be detrimental and can drive disease. Additionally, resistance to PCD can also contribute to disease development. Modulation of PCD, therefore, has great therapeutic potential in a wide range of diseases, including infectious, neurodegenerative, autoinflammatory, and metabolic diseases and cancer. Nevertheless, manipulation of cell death and inflammation for therapeutic intervention is a delicate process, highly specific to the context of the disease of interest, making the selection of the appropriate target molecule crucially important. Several PCD pathways are associated with innate immunity, including pyroptosis, apoptosis, necroptosis, and PANoptosis, which is defined as an inflammatory PCD pathway with key features of pyroptosis, apoptosis, and/or necroptosis that cannot be accounted for by any of these three PCD pathways alone. All of these PCD pathways are regulated by upstream sensors and signaling cascades that assemble multimeric complexes to serve as activation platforms for downstream molecules; these sensors and signaling molecules provide attractive target points for therapeutic intervention. Here, we discuss the molecular mechanisms of innate immune-mediated cell death in health and disease, with a particular focus on the molecules putatively involved in the formation of the PANoptosome and the induction of inflammatory cell death. Further, we discuss the implications and feasibility of targeting these molecules to improve disease outcomes, as well as current clinical approaches.

Indexed as

NecroptosisPyroptosisApoptosisCell DeathHumansImmunity, InnateApoptosisASCCaspase-1Caspase-3caspase-7Caspase-8IFNγIL-1InflammasomeInflammationMLKLNecroptosisNLRP3PANoptosisPANoptosomePyroptosisRIPK1RIPK3TNFαZBP1

Identifiers

PMID34619283
PMCPMC8930427
OpenAlexW3203623718

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