Distinct licensing of IL-18 and IL-1β secretion in response to NLRP3 inflammasome activation.

Inflammasome activation permits processing of interleukins (IL)-1β and 18 and elicits cell death (pyroptosis). Whether these responses are independently licensed or are "hard-wired" consequences of caspase-1 (casp1) activity has not been clear. Here, we show that that each of these respons...

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Main Authors: Rebecca L Schmidt, Laurel L Lenz
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/02e6d419abd14e099be3524052466c63
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