Pyroptosis: Caspase-11 Unlocks the Gates of Death
2015
How inflammatory caspases trigger pyroptotic cell death is mostly unexplained. In this issue of Immunity, Nunez and colleagues report that caspase-11 cleaves the transmembrane channel pannexin-1, causing an efflux of cellular ATP that promotes a P2X7 receptor-dependent pyroptosis.
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