Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways, which in patients with mild to moderate symptoms is adequately controlled by either beta(2)-adrenoceptor agonists or corticosteroids, or a combination of both.
Thus, our data uncover a previously unappreciated antagonism between different F-BAR domain assemblies that determines the threshold of actin polymerization for the formation of functional podosomes and may explain how the absence of PSTPIP2 causes auto-inflammatory disorder.