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Activation and assembly of the inflammasomes through conserved protein domain families.

ABSTRACT: Inflammasomes are oligomeric protein complexes assembled through interactions among the death domain superfamily members, in particular the CARD and PYD domains. Recent progress has shed lights on how the ASC PYD can polymerize to form filaments using multiple domain:domain interfaces, and how the caspase4 CARD can recognize LPS to activate the non-classical inflammasome pathway. Comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms of inflammasome activation and assembly require more extensive structural and biophysical dissection of the inflammasome components and complexes, in particular additional CARD or PYD filaments. Because of the variations in death domain structures and complexes observed so far, future work will undoubtedly shed lights on the mechanisms of inflammasome assembly as well as more surprises on the versatile structure and function of the death domain superfamily.

SUBMITTER: Jin T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4364414 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Activation and assembly of the inflammasomes through conserved protein domain families.

Jin Tengchuan T Xiao Tsan Sam TS

Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death 20150201 2

Inflammasomes are oligomeric protein complexes assembled through interactions among the death domain superfamily members, in particular the CARD and PYD domains. Recent progress has shed lights on how the ASC PYD can polymerize to form filaments using multiple domain:domain interfaces, and how the caspase4 CARD can recognize LPS to activate the non-classical inflammasome pathway. Comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms of inflammasome activation and assembly require more extensiv ...[more]

PMID: 25398536

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