CARD8 senses pathogen-associated protease activity and assembles a pyroptosis-inducing inflammasome, but detailed regulatory mechanisms have remained elusive. In this issue of Immunity, Sharif et al. use cryo-EM and biochemical assays to unveil how DPP9 sequesters the inflammasome-forming C-terminal fragment of CARD8 to suppress its activation.
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