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. 2022 Mar 25;10:832114. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.832114

TABLE 1.

The history of the discovery of pyroptosis and its related research developments.

Year Stimulators Pathway Results References
1992 Shigella flexneri Apoptosis in infected macrophages Zychlinsky et al. (1992)
1997 Shigella dysenteriae Activate caspase-1 in host cells Hilbi et al. (1997)
1999 Salmonella Caspase-1 The cell death Hersh et al. (1999)
2001 A programmed cell death occurs through caspase-1 dependent mechanism Boise and Collins (2001)
2015 Caspases 1/4/5/11 GSDMD Pyroptotic cell death Shi et al. (2015)
2017 Chemotherapy drug Caspase-3/GSDME apoptosis Wang et al. (2017)
2018 Caspase-8 GSDMD Pyroptosis Sarhan et al. (2018)
2020 GSDME CAR T cell Cytokine release syndrome Liu Y et al. (2020)
2020 GAZA GSDMB Pyroptosis Zhou et al. (2020)
2020 Caspase-8 GSDMC Pyroptosis in cancer cells Hou et al. (2020)