Of inflammasomes and pathogens - sensing of microbes by the inflammasome

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 814-826

  Bauernfeind, Franz ^a,b   Hornung, Veit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caspase 1; Inflammasome; NLRC4; NLRP3; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

AIM2 PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CASPASE 11; CRYOPYRIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYTOKINE; ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; FUNGAL DNA; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; NLRC4 PROTEIN; NLRP1 PROTEIN; NLRP12 PROTEIN; NLRP6 PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MATURATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOSOL; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA A; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYROPTOSIS; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARD SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 1; HUMANS; INFLAMMASOMES; MACROPHAGES; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS-INHIBITORY PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84878740998     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201201771     Document Type: Review

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