NLRs at the intersection of cell death and immunity

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 372-379

  Ting, Jenny P Y ^a,b   Willingham, Stephen B ^a   Bergstralh, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSOME; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN SIGNALING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 18 BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MAITOTOXIN; POTASSIUM; PROCASPASE 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE DELETION; GLYCATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; OSTEOBLAST; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 1; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HMGB1 PROTEIN; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NECROSIS; PROTEINS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 42649101995     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2296     Document Type: Review

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