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. 2015 Nov 20;6:588. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00588

Table 2.

Danger signaling pathways characterized as traffickers of DAMPs.

DAMPs Role of ROS Role of ER stress Role of autophagy Role of chaperone-mediated autophagy Role of secretory pathway Caspase activity Role of lysosomes Comments Reference
Secreted ATP + +/0 +/0 0 +/0 + +/0 Underlying pathway is highly inducer dependent (34, 35, 111113)
Released HMGB1 0 0 + ? 0 ? Mostly released passively on account of necrosis; only DT-EGF reported to cause active secretion so far (73, 114, 115)
Secreted or surface HSP70 ? ? ? ? ? + + ABC transporters help in endolysosomal-secretion; HSP70 has also been reported to be secreted in an exosome surface-bound format (116122)
Surface CRT + + −/0 + + +/0 ? LRP1/lipid rafts mediate surface tethering; components that positively regulate surface-CRT in an inducer-dependent fashion: ERp57, PI3K p110α, BAX/BAK, cytosolic ER-Ca2+, BAP31; of note, anthracycline-induced pathway of surface CRT induction has been found to be conserved from yeast to mammals (34, 35, 111, 112, 116, 123, 124)
Surface HSP90 + + ? + + ? (30, 125)

“+” denotes ability to positively regulate trafficking; “−” denotes ability to negatively regulate trafficking; “0” denotes confirmation of no role in regulation of trafficking and “?” denotes that the role in regulating the trafficking is unknown; “+/0” denotes positive or no role in regulation of trafficking in an inducer-dependent fashion; “−/0” denotes negative or no role in regulation of trafficking in an inducer-dependent fashion.

ATP, adenosine triphosphate; CRT, calreticulin; DT-EGF, epidermal growth factor receptor-targeted diphtheria toxin; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; HMGB1, high-mobility group box 1 protein; HSP, heat shock protein; LRP1, low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1; ROS, reactive oxygen species.