Caspase-8 protein cuts a brake on immune defences

Brodsky, Igor E.

doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02994-y

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Caspase-8 protein cuts a brake on immune defences

The enzyme caspase-8 can induce cell death or promote survival and the expression of inflammatory proteins. The discovery of a previously unknown caspase-8 target solves one mystery about immune-defence regulation.

Igor E. Brodsky⁰

Igor E. Brodsky
1. Igor E. Brodsky is in the Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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Activation of the protein caspase-8 can have consequences that include triggering a type of cell death called apoptosis, preventing another type of cell death termed necroptosis, and promoting gene expression that leads to inflammation. How the activity of this single protein regulates these distinct functions is unclear. Writing in Nature, Gitlin et al.¹ shed light on how caspase-8 drives pro-inflammatory responses in mammalian cells (Fig. 1).

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Nature 587, 201-203 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02994-y

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