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SUBMITTER: Zhong X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5833731 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhong Xiaoming X Chen Bin B Yang Liang L Yang Zhiwen Z
Cell death & disease 20180119 2
CARD9 is a caspase recruitment domain-containing signaling protein that plays a critical role in innate and adaptive immunity. It has been widely demonstrated that CARD9 adaptor allows pattern recognition receptors to induce NF-κB and MAPK activation, which initiates a "downstream" inflammation cytokine cascade and provides effective protection against microbial invasion, especially fungal infection. Here our aim is to update existing paradigms and summarize the most recent findings on the CARD9 ...[more]