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Ribotoxic stress through p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activates in vitro the human pyrin inflammasome.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 19 Apr 2013
Yu Je-Wook, Farias Andrew, Hwang Inhwa, Fernandes-Alnemri Teresa, Alnemri Emad S
Abstract excerpt
Human pyrin with gain-of-function mutations in its B30.2/SPRY domain causes the autoinflammatory disease familial Mediterranean fever by assembling an ASC-dependent inflammasome that activates caspase-1. Wild-type human pyrin can also form an inflammasome complex with ASC after engagement by autoinflammatory PSTPIP1 mutants. How the pyrin inflammasome is activated in the absence of disease-associated mutations is...
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