A licence to kill during inflammation

Kengo Nozaki and Edward A. Miao ()

Nature, 2019, vol. 570, issue 7761, 316-317

Abstract: Inflammasomes are protein complexes that fight infection by driving inflammation or cell death. It now seems that the protein NEK7 provides a ‘licence’ for the formation of inflammasomes containing the protein NLRP3.

Keywords: Immunology; Structural biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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