Extracellular mitochondrial DNA promote NLRP3 inflammasome activation and induce acute lung injury through TLR9 and NF-κB
Author(s) -
Guannan Wu,
Qingqing Zhu,
Junli Zeng,
Xiaoling Gu,
Yingying Miao,
Wujian Xu,
Tangfeng Lv,
Yong Song
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.10.26
Subject(s) - inflammasome , inflammation , caspase 1 , mitochondrial dna , tlr9 , microbiology and biotechnology , extracellular , tumor necrosis factor alpha , nf κb , apoptosis , p38 mitogen activated protein kinases , caspase 3 , biology , mapk/erk pathway , medicine , immunology , programmed cell death , kinase , biochemistry , gene expression , gene , dna methylation
Extracellular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was demonstrated to be capable of inducing pulmonary inflammation through TLR9 while its role in NLRP3 inflammation activation remains unknown.
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