cryopyrin

NLRP3

A gene located on chromosome 1q44 that encodes a pyrin-like protein that interacts with the apoptosis-associated speck-like protein PYCARD/ASC. NLRP3 has a caspase recruitment domain, and belongs to the NALP3 inflammasome complex; it plays a role in regulating inflammation and apoptosis.
 
Molecular pathology
NLRP3 mutations are associated with chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and articular (CINCA) syndrome, familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), Muckle-Wells syndrome and neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID).

cryopyrin

A protein coded for by the cold-induced auto-inflammatory syndrome 1 gene. Cryopyrin gene mutations cause three rare hereditary periodic-fever disorders. But the protein has more recently (2006) been found to be importantly involved in the production of INFLAMMATION in innate immunity. See also INFLAMMASOME.