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SUBMITTER: Schmidt RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3445464 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schmidt Rebecca L RL Lenz Laurel L LL
PloS one 20120918 9
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 responses is independently regulated following activation of NLRP3 inflammasomes by a "non-canonical" stimulus, the secreted Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) p60 protein. Primed murine dendritic cells (DCs) responded to p6 ...[more]