ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Illuminating the structural mechanism of non-canonical inflammasomes
Inflammasomes are essential components of the innate immune system that form cytosolic multi-protein complexes restricting pathogen growth and coordinating inflammatory signalling. Among these, non-canonical inflammasomes are unique lipid-protein assemblies where inflammatory caspases directly sense and oligomerise on bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), triggering a response that ultimately induces lytic cell death. Despite the critical role of non-canonical inflammasomes, the transient and heterogeneous nature of their assembly on the complex Gram-negative bacterial membrane has left the structural mechanisms underlying their specificity, assembly, and activation largely undefined. In this…
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