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This Progress article describes recent studies showing that the human lipopolysaccharide sensor caspase-4 activates pro-IL-18 and causes vascular leakage by inducing pyroptosis in endothelial cells. Structural studies have uncovered allosteric sites of caspase-4 that might be effective drug targets to inhibit vascular leakage.
