Inflammasomes: Mechanism of assembly, regulation and signalling

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 407-420

  Broz, Petr ^a   Dixit, Vishva M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIM2 PROTEIN; CARD16 PROTEIN; CARD17 PROTEIN; CARD18 PROTEIN; CRYOPYRIN; CYTOKINE; INFLAMMASOME; INTERFERON; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS INHIBITORY PROTEIN; NLRC4 PROTEIN; NLRP1 PROTEIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PYRIN PROTEIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYTOKINE RELEASE; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROPTOSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFLAMMASOMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84976516826     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.58     Document Type: Review

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