Discovery of a caspase cleavage motif antibody reveals insights into noncanonical inflammasome function

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Inflammasomes sense a number of pathogen and host damage signals to initiate a signaling cascade that triggers inflammatory cell death, termed pyroptosis. The inflammatory caspases (1/4/5/11) are the key effectors of this process through cleavage and activation of the pore-forming protein gasdermin D. Caspase-1 also activates proinflammatory interleukins, IL-1β and IL-18, via proteolysis. However, compared to the...

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