Caspase-1 processes IFN-γ-inducing factor and regulates LPS-induced IFN-γ production

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6625, 1997, Pages 619-623

  Ghayur, Tariq ^a   Banerjee, Subhashis ^a   Hugunin, Margaret ^a   Butler, Deborah ^a   Herzog, Linda ^a   Carter, Adam ^a   Quintal, Lucia ^a   Sekut, Les ^a   Talanian, Robert ^a   Paskind, Michael ^a   Wong, Winnie ^a   Kamen, Robert ^a   Tracey, Daniel ^a   Allen, Hamish ^a  

^a BASF Bioresearch Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ARTICLE; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON INDUCTION; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CASPASE 1; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; INTERFERON INDUCERS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0031004174     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386619a0     Document Type: Article

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