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SUBMITTER: Rahuman S Malik-Sheriff
PROVIDER: MODEL1712240002 | biostudies-other |
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): 29688381
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

Nature 20101201 7329
An inflammatory response initiated by the NLRP3 inflammasome is triggered by a variety of situations of host 'danger', including infection and metabolic dysregulation. Previous studies suggested that NLRP3 inflammasome activity is negatively regulated by autophagy and positively regulated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) derived from an uncharacterized organelle. Here we show that mitophagy/autophagy blockade leads to the accumulation of damaged, ROS-generating mitochondria, and this in turn act ...[more]