作者: Seidel, Martin ; Latz, Eicke ; Lu, Xiaokang ; Katz, Jason ; Shen, Dong-Ming ; Kitanovic, Igor ; Dean, Dennis ; Venkatraman, Shankar ; Opipari, Anthony ; Glick, Gary ; Braams, Simona ; Roush, William ; Trippner, Pascal ; Franchi, Luigi ; Ghosh, Shomir ; Olhava, Edward ; Sanchez, Brian ; Byth, Kate ; Stutz, Andrea ; Kitanovic, Ana ; Bertheloot, Damien ; Winkler, David
Danger signals appear in many common inflammatory diseases and can lead to activation of the cytosolic innate signaling receptor NLRP3.Active NLRP3 induces the assembly of an inflammasome which triggers caspase-1 mediated activation of IL-1β family cytokines and induces inflammatory pyroptotic cell death.Pharmacol. interference with NLRP3 activation has proven to be successful in a variety of preclin. models of inflammatory diseases, validating NLRP3 as an attractive target for drug development.In this presentation, an overview of recent advances in the development of small-mol. antagonists targeting NLRP3 for treatment of inflammatory diseases will be provided.