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Apoptosis in prostate carcinoma tissue: The role of caspase-3, caspase-1, and alkaline DNase activity [PDF]
Journal of Medical BiochemistryBackground: Prostate glandular tissue maintains a delicate balance between cellular proliferation and programmed cell death (apoptosis), ensuring the preservation of normal glandular architecture in healthy individuals.
Veljkovic Andrej +6 more
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Caspase-1 activates gasdermin A in non-mammals. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 Gasdermins oligomerize to form pores in the cell membrane, causing regulated lytic cell death called pyroptosis. Mammals encode five gasdermins that can trigger pyroptosis: GSDMA, B, C, D, and E. Caspase and granzyme proteases cleave the linker regions of and activate GSDMB, C, D, and E, but no endogenous activation pathways are yet known for GSDMA ...
Billman ZP +5 more
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Cell Reports, 2021 Summary: Zoonotic pathogens, such as COVID-19, reside in animal hosts before jumping species to infect humans. The Carnivora, like mink, carry many zoonoses, yet how diversity in host immune genes across species affect pathogen carriage is poorly ...
Zsofi Digby +13 more
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Caspase-1: The inflammasome and beyond [PDF]
Innate Immunity, 2013 Caspase-1 plays a fundamental role in innate immunity and in several important inflammatory diseases as the protease activates the pro-inflammatory cytokines proIL-1β and proIL-18. Caspase-1 itself is activated in different inflammasome complexes, which assemble in response to a variety of exogenous and endogenous stressors. More recently, pyroptosis,
Sollberger, Gabriel +4 more
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Increased expression of caspase 1 during active phase of connective tissue disease [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Key factors of pyroptosis play an important role in the inflammatory response to connective tissue disease (CTD). However, information on active and stable stages of CTD is scarce.
Rentian Cai +4 more
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Pyroptosis- What We Know and the Road Ahead! [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Pyroptosis, a type of cell death, initiated by proinflammatory signals, is classically associated with inflammation. It was thought to occur mainly in macrophages and leukocytes during inflammatory conditions and involves the activation of caspase 1 ...
Anitha Krishnan Pandarathodiyil +3 more
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An Allosteric Circuit in Caspase-1 [PDF]
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2008 Structural studies of caspase-1 reveal that the dimeric thiol protease can exist in two states: in an on-state, when the active site is occupied, or in an off-state, when the active site is empty or when the enzyme is bound by a synthetic allosteric ligand at the dimer interface approximately 15 A from the active site.
Debajyoti Datta +3 more
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Autophagy May Allow a Cell to Forbear Pyroptosis When Confronted With Cytosol-Invasive Bacteria
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Inflammatory caspases detect cytosol-invasive Gram-negative bacteria by monitoring for the presence of LPS in the cytosol. This should provide defense against the cytosol-invasive Burkholderia and Shigella species by lysing the infected cell via ...
Carissa K. Harvest +6 more
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Obesity Science & Practice, 2023 Mechanisms underlying the negative effects of obesity on the brain are still unknown. Obesity is associated with oxidative stress in the brain and neuroinflammation that promotes neurodegenerative diseases.
Erick Gómez‐Apo +4 more
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Haplotypes of the Caspase-1 Gene, Plasma Caspase-1 Levels, and Cardiovascular Risk [PDF]
Circulation Research, 2006 Caspase-1 processes the interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18 inactive precursors to the biologically active cytokines that are known to have proatherogenic effects. The present study investigated the genetic variability of the CASP1 gene and plasma levels of caspase-1 in relation to cardiovascular risk. In Europeans, 3 tag
Blankenberg, S. +15 more
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