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Kettering University
Education•Flint, Michigan, United States•
About: Kettering University is a education organization based out in Flint, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: RNA & Antigen. The organization has 6842 authors who have published 7689 publications receiving 337503 citations. The organization is also known as: GMI Engineering & Management Institute & General Motors Institute.
Topics: RNA, Antigen, DNA, Cancer, Population
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TL;DR: The danger‐associated stimuli that have been reported to activate NLRP1 and/or CARD8 are reviewed, including anthrax lethal toxin, Toxoplasma gondii, Shigella flexneri and the small molecule DPP8/9 inhibitor Val‐boroPro, focusing on recent mechanistic insights and highlighting unresolved questions.
Abstract: Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that activate inflammatory cytokines and induce pyroptosis in response to intracellular danger-associated signals NLRP1 and CARD8 are related germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors that form inflammasomes, but their activation mechanisms and biological purposes have not yet been fully established Both NLRP1 and CARD8 undergo post-translational autoproteolysis to generate two non-covalently associated polypeptide chains NLRP1 and CARD8 activators induce the proteasome-mediated destruction of the N-terminal fragment, liberating the C-terminal fragment to form an inflammasome Here, we review the danger-associated stimuli that have been reported to activate NLRP1 and/or CARD8, including anthrax lethal toxin, Toxoplasma gondii, Shigella flexneri and the small molecule DPP8/9 inhibitor Val-boroPro, focusing on recent mechanistic insights and highlighting unresolved questions In addition, we discuss the recently identified disease-associated mutations in NLRP1 and CARD8, the potential role that DPP9's protein structure plays in inflammasome regulation, and the emerging link between NLRP1 and metabolism Finally, we summarize all of this latest research and consider the possible biological purposes of these enigmatic inflammasomes
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TL;DR: The data show that Gab2 via Shp-2 is critical for transmitting signals from Kit Tyr567 to activate the Rac/JNK pathway controlling mast cell proliferation, which likely contributes to mast cell development in specific tissues.
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TL;DR: Results in vitro are consistent with the proposal that vaccinia topoisomerase can catalyze sequence-specific strand transfer during genetic recombination in vivo and require the potential for base pairing to support intermolecular transfer.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the cellular immune response is essential for the ability of Drosophila to survive in their standard laboratory environment, and that Dif and Dorsal control crucial aspects of the cellularimmune response, including blood cell survival and the ability to fight off microbial infection.
Abstract: Studies on Drosophila immunity have focused on the humoral response, whereas less is known about the Drosophila cellular immunity. Here we show that mutants that lack the Drosophila Rel/NF-κB proteins Dorsal and Dif have very few blood cells, are constitutively infected by opportunistic microbes, and die from infection as larvae. When the double mutants are grown in microbe-free conditions, the animals are rescued from chronic infection and many survive to adult stages. Thus, Dif and Dorsal are required for survival because they protect the animal from infection by microbes from the environment. Specific expression of Dif or dorsal in the blood cell lineage is sufficient to restore blood cell number, clear microbes, and allow survival to the adult stage. These findings demonstrate that the cellular immune response is essential for the ability of Drosophila to survive in their standard laboratory environment, and that Dif and Dorsal control crucial aspects of the cellular immune response, including blood cell survival and the ability to fight off microbial infection.
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Joan Massagué | 189 | 408 | 149951 |
Chris Sander | 178 | 713 | 233287 |
Timothy A. Springer | 167 | 669 | 122421 |
Murray F. Brennan | 161 | 925 | 97087 |
Charles M. Rice | 154 | 561 | 83812 |
Lloyd J. Old | 152 | 775 | 101377 |
Howard I. Scher | 151 | 944 | 101737 |
Paul Tempst | 148 | 309 | 89225 |
Pier Paolo Pandolfi | 146 | 529 | 88334 |
Barton F. Haynes | 144 | 911 | 79014 |
Jedd D. Wolchok | 140 | 713 | 123336 |
James P. Allison | 137 | 483 | 83336 |
Harold E. Varmus | 137 | 496 | 76320 |
Scott W. Lowe | 134 | 396 | 89376 |
David S. Klimstra | 133 | 564 | 61682 |