pyroptosis

Summary

Summary: Type of programmed cell death associated with infection by intracellular pathogens. It is characterized by INFLAMMASOME formation; activation of CASPASE 1; and CYTOKINES mediated inflammation.

Top Publications

  1. Ding J, Wang K, Liu W, She Y, Sun Q, Shi J, et al. Pore-forming activity and structural autoinhibition of the gasdermin family. Nature. 2016;535:111-6 pubmed publisher
    Inflammatory caspases cleave the gasdermin D (GSDMD) protein to trigger pyroptosis, a lytic form of cell death that is crucial for immune defences and diseases...
  2. Palacios Macapagal D, Connor J, Mustelin T, Ramalingam T, Wynn T, Davidson T. Cutting Edge: Eosinophils Undergo Caspase-1-Mediated Pyroptosis in Response to Necrotic Liver Cells. J Immunol. 2017;199:847-853 pubmed publisher
    ..cell death with accompanying cytokine release is the hallmark of a novel form of cell death termed pyroptosis. To confirm this response in a disease model, we isolated eosinophils from the livers of Schistosoma mansoni
  3. Franz K, Kagan J. Innate Immune Receptors as Competitive Determinants of Cell Fate. Mol Cell. 2017;66:750-760 pubmed publisher
    ..Understanding the antagonistic antimicrobial activities of the innate immune system should provide insight into how cell fate decisions are made during infections and potentially during other environmental stresses. ..
  4. Jin X, Jin H, Shi Y, Guo Y, Zhang H. Long Non-Coding RNA KCNQ1OT1 Promotes Cataractogenesis via miR-214 and Activation of the Caspase-1 Pathway. Cell Physiol Biochem. 2017;42:295-305 pubmed publisher
    ..Knockdown of KCNQ1OT1 expression significantly suppressed H2O2-induced SRA01/04 cell pyroptosis in vitro, which is the critical step in cataract formation...
  5. Xing Y, Yao X, Li H, Xue G, Guo Q, Yang G, et al. Cutting Edge: TRAF6 Mediates TLR/IL-1R Signaling-Induced Nontranscriptional Priming of the NLRP3 Inflammasome. J Immunol. 2017;199:1561-1566 pubmed publisher
    ..Deficiency of TRAF6 specifically inhibited TLR/IL-1R priming-initiated caspase-1 cleavage, pyroptosis, and secretion of presynthesized IL-18...
  6. Luo M, Hu L, Li D, Wang Y, He Y, Zhu L, et al. MD-2 regulates LPS-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation and IL-1beta secretion by a MyD88/NF-?B-dependent pathway in alveolar macrophages cell line. Mol Immunol. 2017;90:1-10 pubmed publisher
    ..This study showed that NLRP3 expression, IL-1beta (IL-1?) secretion, and pyroptosis were up-regulated after LPS stimulation in the NR8383 AM cell-line...
  7. Olivier E, Dutot M, Regazzetti A, Laprevote O, Rat P. 25-Hydroxycholesterol induces both P2X7-dependent pyroptosis and caspase-dependent apoptosis in human skin model: New insights into degenerative pathways. Chem Phys Lipids. 2017;207:171-178 pubmed publisher
    ..are characterized by both cell death and inflammation, which involve different pathways such as apoptosis and pyroptosis. Oxysterols, oxidized derivatives of cholesterol, are known to act as key actors in degenerative disorders such ..
  8. Pfalzgraff A, Heinbockel L, Su Q, Brandenburg K, Weindl G. Synthetic anti-endotoxin peptides inhibit cytoplasmic LPS-mediated responses. Biochem Pharmacol. 2017;140:64-72 pubmed publisher
    ..by inflammatory caspases leads to non-canonical inflammasome activation and induction of IL-1 secretion and pyroptosis. The discovery of this novel mechanism has potential implications for the development of effective drugs to ..
  9. Li R, Zhang L, Sun W. Erythropoietin rescues primary rat cortical neurons from pyroptosis and apoptosis via Erk1/2-Nrf2/Bach1 signal pathway. Brain Res Bull. 2017;130:236-244 pubmed publisher
    ..We found that sevoflurane exposure increased cell pyroptosis, apoptosis, injury, and MDA (n=9, P<0.05), but decreased cell viability (n=9, P<0...

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  1. Liu Y, Chen J, Zhang Z, Ma X, Chen Y, Du X, et al. NLRP3 inflammasome activation mediates radiation-induced pyroptosis in bone marrow-derived macrophages. Cell Death Dis. 2017;8:e2579 pubmed publisher
    ..BMDM) and a mouse radiation model, we explored the role of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and the secondary pyroptosis underlying radiation-induced immune cell death...
  2. Lan P, Fan Y, Zhao Y, Lou X, Monsour H, Zhang X, et al. TNF superfamily receptor OX40 triggers invariant NKT cell pyroptosis and liver injury. J Clin Invest. 2017;127:2222-2234 pubmed publisher
    ..This OX40/NKT pyroptosis pathway also plays a key role in concanavalin A-induced murine hepatitis...
  3. Wang Y, Yin B, Li D, Wang G, Han X, Sun X. GSDME mediates caspase-3-dependent pyroptosis in gastric cancer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2018;495:1418-1425 pubmed publisher
    ..However, the mechanism of the chemotherapy drugs on gastric cancer is not completely understood. Pyroptosis is a form of programmed cell death and plays critical role in immunity...
  4. Lei X, Zhang Z, Xiao X, Qi J, He B, Wang J. Enterovirus 71 Inhibits Pyroptosis through Cleavage of Gasdermin D. J Virol. 2017;91: pubmed publisher
    ..Here, we report that EV71 induces degradation of gasdermin D (GSDMD), an essential component of pyroptosis. Remarkably, the viral protease 3C directly targets GSDMD and induces its cleavage, which is dependent on the ..
  5. Cheng K, Xiong S, Ye Z, Hong Z, Di A, Tsang K, et al. Caspase-11-mediated endothelial pyroptosis underlies endotoxemia-induced lung injury. J Clin Invest. 2017;127:4124-4135 pubmed publisher
    ..b>Pyroptosis is a form of programmed lytic cell death that is triggered by inflammatory caspases, but little is known about ..
  6. Rathkey J, Benson B, Chirieleison S, Yang J, Xiao T, Dubyak G, et al. Live-cell visualization of gasdermin D-driven pyroptotic cell death. J Biol Chem. 2017;292:14649-14658 pubmed publisher
    b>Pyroptosis is a form of cell death important in defenses against pathogens that can also result in a potent and sometimes pathological inflammatory response...
  7. Lim Y, Kumar S. A single cut to pyroptosis. Oncotarget. 2015;6:36926-7 pubmed publisher
  8. Wang H, Zhou X, Li H, Qian X, Wang Y, Ma L. Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 2 Negatively Regulates LPS-ATP-Induced Caspase-1-Dependent Pyroptosis of Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophage by Modulating ROS Production. Biomed Res Int. 2017;2017:2975648 pubmed publisher
    b>Pyroptosis, a new form of cell death, which has special morphological characteristics, depends on caspase-1 activation and occupies an important role in inflammatory immune diseases and ischemia-reperfusion injury...
  9. Liu N, Su H, Zhang Y, Liu Z, Kong J. Cholecalciterol cholesterol emulsion attenuates experimental autoimmune myocarditis in mice via inhibition of the pyroptosis signaling pathway. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017;493:422-428 pubmed publisher
    ..However, the therapeutic effect of cholecalciterol cholesterol emulsion (CCE) on myocarditis and the role of pyroptosis in the progress of myocarditis have not been determined...
  10. Kuri P, Schieber N, Thumberger T, Wittbrodt J, Schwab Y, Leptin M. Dynamics of in vivo ASC speck formation. J Cell Biol. 2017;216:2891-2909 pubmed publisher
    ..A toxic stimulus triggered speck formation and rapid pyroptosis in keratinocytes in vivo. Macrophages engulfed and digested that speck-containing, pyroptotic debris...
  11. Zhu S, Ding S, Wang P, Wei Z, Pan W, Palm N, et al. Nlrp9b inflammasome restricts rotavirus infection in intestinal epithelial cells. Nature. 2017;546:667-670 pubmed publisher
    ..proteins Asc and caspase-1 to promote the maturation of interleukin (Il)-18 and gasdermin D (Gsdmd)-induced pyroptosis. Conditional depletion of Nlrp9b or other inflammasome components in the intestine in vivo resulted in enhanced ..
  12. Domingo Fernández R, Coll R, Kearney J, Breit S, O Neill L. The intracellular chloride channel proteins CLIC1 and CLIC4 induce IL-1? transcription and activate the NLRP3 inflammasome. J Biol Chem. 2017;292:12077-12087 pubmed publisher
    ..activation of caspase-1 leading to the maturation of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1? and IL-18 and promoting pyroptosis. Classically, the NLRP3 inflammasome in murine macrophages is activated by the recognition of pathogen-..