A dRAStic RHOAdblock of Pyrin inflammasome activation.

Nat Immunol

Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Interdepartmental Immunobiology Center and Skin Disease Research Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Published: July 2016

The Pyrin inflammasome guard is disabled if the activity of small cellular GTPase is compromised, in response to defects in the mevalonate pathway and directly by mutations in Pyrin, resulting in the IL-1β-driven autoinflammatory diseases MKD and FMF.

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