Unlocking the novel activation mechanism of human IL-18

Fundings

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFA1303900 to S.Y.), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 32270921 and 82070567 to S.Y., and 82204354 to Y.H.), the Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine of Nanjing Medical University (Grant No. SKLRM-2023A2 to S.Y.), the Talent Cultivation Project of "Organized Scientific Research" of Nanjing Medical University (Grant No. NJMURC20220014 to S.Y.), the Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Postdoctoral Program (Grant No. 2022ZB419 to Y.H.), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2023T160329 to Y.H.).

Acknowledgments

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