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SUBMITTER: Vigano E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4640152 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viganò Elena E Diamond Catherine Emma CE Spreafico Roberto R Balachander Akhila A Sobota Radoslaw M RM Mortellaro Alessandra A
Nature communications 20151028
Monocytes promote the early host response to infection releasing key pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-1β. The biologically inactive IL-1β precursor is processed to active form by inflammasomes, multi-protein complexes activating caspase-1. Human monocytes exhibit an unconventional one-step pathway of inflammasome activation in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) alone. Although this lineage-restricted mechanism is likely to contribute to the pathology of endotoxin shock, signalling pathwa ...[more]