Cell Reports, 2017 Inflammasomes activate the protease caspase-1, which cleaves interleukin-1β and interleukin-18 to generate the mature cytokines and controls their secretion and a form of inflammatory cell death called pyroptosis.
Katharina S. Schneider +16 more
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Inflammasomes: caspase-1-activating platforms with critical roles in host defense [PDF]
, 2011 Activation of the inflammatory cysteine protease caspase-1 in inflammasome complexes plays a critical role in the host response to microbial infections.
Lieselotte eVande Walle +3 more
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Alpha 1-antitrypsin does not inhibit human monocyte caspase-1. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 BACKGROUND:Alpha 1-antitrypsin (A1AT) is a 52 kDa serine protease inhibitor produced largely by hepatocytes but also by mononuclear phagocytes. A1AT chiefly inhibits neutrophil elastase and proteinase-3 but has also been reported to have immune ...
Mohd Akhlakur Rahman +3 more
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Monocyte Caspase-1 Is Released in a Stable, Active High Molecular Weight Complex Distinct from the Unstable Cell Lysate-Activated Caspase-1. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Mononuclear phagocytes utilize caspase-1 activation as a means to respond to danger signals. Although caspase-1 was discovered using highly concentrated cell extracts that spontaneously activate caspase-1, it is now clear that in live cell models caspase-
Obada R Shamaa +3 more
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Caspase-1 Inhibitor Reduces Pyroptosis Induced by Brain Death in Kidney
Frontiers in Surgery, 2021 Brain death (BD) induces an organ-level inflammatory response. However, the underlying mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. Here, we investigated the role of caspase-1-mediated pyroptosis in BD-induced kidney injury in rats.
Weifeng Liu +21 more
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IKKα negatively regulates ASC-dependent inflammasome activation. [PDF]
, 2014 The inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that activate caspase-1 in response to infections and stress, resulting in the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Alnemri, Emad S +19 more
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Oligomerized CARD16 promotes caspase‐1 assembly and IL‐1β processing
FEBS Open Bio, 2015 Increasing evidence indicates that caspase recruitment domain (CARD)‐mediated caspase‐1 (CASP1) assembly is an essential process for its activation and subsequent interleukin (IL)‐1β release, leading to the initiation of inflammation.
Tadayoshi Karasawa +10 more
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Legionella pneumophila strain 130b evades macrophage cell death independent of the effector SidF in the absence of flagellin [PDF]
, 2017 International audienceThe human pathogen Legionella pneumophila must evade host cell death signaling to enable replication in lung macrophages and to cause disease. After bacterial growth, however, L.
Abraham, Gilu +10 more
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Inflammatory caspase substrate specificities
mBioCaspases are a family of cysteine proteases that act as molecular scissors to cleave substrates and regulate biological processes such as programmed cell death and inflammation.
Patrick M. Exconde +4 more
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Role and Association of Inflammatory and Apoptotic Caspases in Renal Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis
Kidney & Blood Pressure Research, 2016 Background/Aims: Caspases, an evolutionary conserved family of aspartate-specific cystein proteases, play pivotal roles in apoptotic and inflammatory signaling.
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