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SUBMITTER: Moossavi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240225 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moossavi Maryam M Parsamanesh Negin N Bahrami Afsane A Atkin Stephen L SL Sahebkar Amirhossein A
Molecular cancer 20181117 1
Inflammasomes are large intracellular multi-protein signalling complexes that are formed in the cytosolic compartment as an inflammatory immune response to endogenous danger signals. The formation of the inflammasome enables activation of an inflammatory protease caspase-1, pyroptosis initiation with the subsequent cleaving of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and proIL-18 to produce active forms. The inflammasome complex consists of a Nod-like receptor (NLR), the adapter apopto ...[more]