We screened a series of metabolites and found that L-Arg strongly inhibits NLRP3 inflammasome assembly in vitro. Mechanistically, L-Arg directly binds the D31 site of NLRP3, blocking NLRP3-ASC interaction and subsequent inflammasome assembly. This discovery establishes NLRP3 as a direct sensor fo...
Drastic alteration in macronutrients causes large changes in gene expression in the photosynthetic unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Preliminary data suggested that cells follow a biphasic response to this change hinging on the initiation of lipid accumulation, and we hypothesized that ...