Although this pathway was initially described following infection by gram-negative bacteria via lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the metabolic pathway of caspase-4/11 and GSDMD is also described in many pathologies with an inflammatory component, notably diabetes (Cheng et al., 2021) but also pulmonary arterial hypertension (Wu et al., 2022) or atherosclerosis (Jiang et al., 2021). The gene discussed is GSDMD; the disease is infection.