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ReviewMolecular cell2026

The landscape of regulated cell death: It's all downhill from here.

Andreas Aufschnaiter, Teak-Jung Oh, Andrew Oberst

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Review in Molecular cell, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cuproptosis and the bioinorganic basis of copper-induced cell death.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2026
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  2. The gasdermin family: from pyroptosis mechanisms to therapeutic targets.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Andreas AufschnaiterDepartment of Internal Medicine V, Haematology & Oncology, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria; VIT-Lab, Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute (TKFI), 6020 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria; Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: andreas.aufschnaiter@i-med.ac.at.
Teak-Jung OhDepartment of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: tjoh2@uw.edu.
Andrew OberstDepartment of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: andrew.oberst@uw.edu.

Funding

ZBP1 activationR01AI153246 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI OBERST, ANDREW ATWELL · 2021 to 2025
$3.1M
Innate Immunity to West Nile VirusR01AI179722 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Michael Gale, Andrew Atwell Oberst · 2024 to 2026
$2.6M
Promotion of metastasis by apoptotic cellsU01CA289564 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Mark Bryan Headley, Andrew Atwell Oberst · 2024 to 2026
$2.1M
Cell lysis-induced leukotriene synthesis activates type-2 immunity in the lungR01HL172817 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Andrew Atwell Oberst, Jakob H. von Moltke · 2025 to 2026
$1.7M
Global analysis of hnRNPLL-mediated alternative pre-mRNA splicing in lymphocytes.K99AI083793 · NIAID · IMMUNE DISEASE INSTITUTE, INC. · PI OBERDOERFFER, SHALINI · 2009 to 2009
$97k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA289564NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL172817NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI083793NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI153246NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI179722
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells can die via any of several forms of regulated cell death (RCD), including apoptosis, pyroptosis, and necroptosis. We now appreciate that there is substantial crosstalk between them, allowing for a high degree of plasticity downstream of cell death triggers. Understanding this is essential to delineate roles of RCD in development, homeostasis, tumor biology, and immunity; however, this crosstalk can make the fate of individual cells difficult to visualize. Here, we present a conceptual framework that builds on Waddington's landscape model of lineage commitment. On the landscape of RCD, live cells begin atop a "mountain," from which they roll down via "valleys" representing different cell death programs, potentially being diverted or even raised back to the summit by regulators of these processes. While acknowledging that, like any conceptual framework, this visualization is imperfect, we hope it presents a succinct approach to understand the complexities and interconnections of cell death regulation.

Indexed as

ApoptosisNecroptosisPyroptosisRegulated Cell DeathAnimalsCell DeathCell LineageHumansSignal Transductionapoptosisnecroptosisprogrammed cell deathpyroptosisregulated cell death

Identifiers

PMID41344328
PMCPMC12695058

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