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Inflammasome-mediated disease animal models reveal roles for innate but not adaptive immunity.
Immunity - 19 Jun 2009
Brydges Susannah D, Mueller James L, McGeough Matthew D, Pena Carla A, Misaghi Amirhossein, Gandhi Chhavi, Putnam Chris D, Boyle David L, Firestein Gary S, Horner Anthony A, Soroosh Pejman, Watford Wendy T, O'Shea John J, Kastner Daniel L, Hoffman Hal M
Abstract excerpt
NLRP3 nucleates the inflammasome, a protein complex responsible for cleavage of prointerleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) to its active form. Mutations in the NLRP3 gene cause the autoinflammatory disease spectrum cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS). The central role of IL-1beta in CAPS is supported by the response to IL-1-targeted therapy. We developed two Nlrp3 mutant knockin mouse strains to model CAPS to...
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