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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Geoffrey Neale
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-30769 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature immunology 20110904 10
The adaptor ASC contributes to innate immunity through the assembly of inflammasome complexes that activate the cysteine protease caspase-1. Here we demonstrate that ASC has an inflammasome-independent, cell-intrinsic role in cells of the adaptive immune response. ASC-deficient mice showed defective antigen presentation by dendritic cells (DCs) and lymphocyte migration due to impaired actin polymerization mediated by the small GTPase Rac. Genome-wide analysis showed that ASC, but not the cytopla ...[more]