NALPs: A novel protein family involved in inflammation

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-104

  Tschopp, Jürg ^a   Martinon, Fabio ^a   Burns, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE; CASPASE 9; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NALP; PROTEIN NALP1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 0037312509     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1019     Document Type: Review

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