The NAIP-NLRC4 inflammasome in innate immune detection of bacterial flagellin and type III secretion apparatus

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-102

  Zhao, Yue ^a   Shao, Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Flagellin; Inflammasome; Innate immunity; NLRs; NOD like receptor; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; INFLAMMASOME; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS INHIBITORY PROTEIN; NLRC4 PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN SIGNALING PROTEIN; NLRC4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

AUTOINFLAMMATORY DISEASE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CYTOSOL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEGIONELLA; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARD SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMASOMES; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS-INHIBITORY PROTEIN; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84927774890     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12293     Document Type: Review

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