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The Inflammasomes: Guardians of the Body
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The role of NLRs, and in particular the inflammasomes, in the recognition of microbial and danger components and the role they play in health and disease are discussed.Abstract:
The innate immune system relies on its capacity to rapidly detect invading pathogenic microbes as foreign and to eliminate them. The discovery of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) provided a class of membrane receptors that sense extracellular microbes and trigger antipathogen signaling cascades. More recently, intracellular microbial sensors have been identified, including NOD-like receptors (NLRs). Some of the NLRs also sense nonmicrobial danger signals and form large cytoplasmic complexes called inflammasomes that link the sensing of microbial products and metabolic stress to the proteolytic activation of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. The NALP3 inflammasome has been associated with several autoinflammatory conditions including gout. Likewise, the NALP3 inflammasome is a crucial element in the adjuvant effect of aluminum and can direct a humoral adaptive immune response. In this review, we discuss the role of NLRs, and in particular the inflammasomes, in the recognition of microbial and danger components and the role they play in health and disease.read more
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The role of pattern-recognition receptors in innate immunity: update on Toll-like receptors
Taro Kawai,Shizuo Akira +1 more
TL;DR: Recent advances that have been made by research into the role of TLR biology in host defense and disease are described.
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NLRP3 inflammasomes are required for atherogenesis and activated by cholesterol crystals
Peter Duewell,Hajime Kono,Katey J. Rayner,Katey J. Rayner,Cherilyn M. Sirois,Gregory I. Vladimer,Franz Bauernfeind,George S. Abela,Luigi Franchi,Guillermo Gabriel Nuñez,Max Schnurr,Terje Espevik,Egil Lien,Katherine A. Fitzgerald,Kenneth L. Rock,Kathryn J. Moore,Kathryn J. Moore,Samuel D. Wright,Veit Hornung,Eicke Latz,Eicke Latz +20 more
TL;DR: It is shown that cholesterol crystals activate the NLRP3 inflammasome in phagocytes in vitro in a process that involves phagolysosomal damage and that crystalline cholesterol acts as an endogenous danger signal and its deposition in arteries or elsewhere is an early cause rather than a late consequence of inflammation.
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Reactive Oxygen Species in Inflammation and Tissue Injury
TL;DR: The current review compiles the past and current research in the area of inflammation with particular emphasis on oxidative stress-mediated signaling mechanisms that are involved in inflammation and tissue injury.
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Cutting edge: NF-kappaB activating pattern recognition and cytokine receptors license NLRP3 inflammasome activation by regulating NLRP3 expression.
Franz Bauernfeind,Gabor Horvath,Andrea Stutz,Emad S. Alnemri,Kelly S. MacDonald,David P. Speert,Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri,Jianghong Wu,Brian G. Monks,Katherine A. Fitzgerald,Veit Hornung,Eicke Latz +11 more
TL;DR: It is shown that cell priming through multiple signaling receptors induces NLRP3 expression, which is identified to be a critical checkpoint for NLRP2 activation and signals provided by NF-κB activators are necessary but not sufficient forNLRP3 activation.
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Thioredoxin-interacting protein links oxidative stress to inflammasome activation
TL;DR: The participation of TXNIP in the NLRP3 inflammasome activation may provide a mechanistic link to the observed involvement of IL-1β in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes.
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