PANoptosome Human Antibodies Starter Set

The PANoptosome Human Antibodies Starter Set is an all-in-one solution to study the three key modes of programmed cell death, including pyroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis using Western blotting application. This antibody starter set comprises our KO extract validated STANDARD antibodies against the key components of the NLRP3 inflammasome including NLRP3, Asc and Caspase-1, the cytosolic RNA/DNA sensor ZBP1 and the apoptosis target caspase-8. These antibodies are used and published by the experts in inflammasome and cell death research. This economic starter set contains enough primary antibodies to perform at least 3 western blot experiments. Each antibody is available in 100µg catalog sizes for further experiments. Protein function: Thiol protease involved in a variety of inflammatory processes by proteolytically cleaving other proteins, such as the precursors of the inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL1B) and interleukin 18 (IL18) as well as the pyroptosis inducer Gasdermin-D (GSDMD), into active mature peptides (PubMed:15326478, PubMed:1574116, PubMed:7876192, PubMed:15498465, PubMed:26375003). Plays a key role in cell immunity as an inflammatory response initiator: once activated through formation of an inflammasome complex, it initiates a proinflammatory response through the cleavage of the two inflammatory cytokines IL1B and IL18, releasing the mature cytokines which are involved in a variety of inflammatory processes (PubMed:1574116, PubMed:7876192, PubMed:15498465, PubMed:15326478). Cleaves a tetrapeptide after an Asp residue at position P1 (PubMed:1574116, PubMed:7876192, PubMed:15498465). Also initiates pyroptosis, a programmed lytic cell death pathway, through cleavage of GSDMD (PubMed:26375003). In contrast to cleavage of interleukins IL1B and IL1B, recognition and cleavage of GSDMD is not strictly dependent on the consensus cleavage site but depends on an exosite interface on CASP1 that recognizes and binds the Gasdermin-D, C-terminal (GSDMD-CT) part (PubMed:32109412, PubMed:32553275). Upon inflammasome activation, during DNA virus infection but not RNA virus challenge, controls antiviral immunity through the cleavage of CGAS, rendering it inactive (PubMed:28314590). In apoptotic cells, cleaves SPHK2 which is released from cells and remains enzymatically active extracellularly (PubMed:20197547). [The UniProt Consortium]