Yersiania YopJ protein has been shown to drive caspase-8-mediated pyroptosis. Here the authors show a precise mechanism of this non-canonical cell death pathway that is controlled by a TRIF-dependent complex of FADD, RIPK1, caspase-8 and ZBP1.
- Hayley I. Muendlein
- Wilson M. Connolly
- Alexander Poltorak