“…P2X7-mediated activation of cPLA2 and iPLA2 has been reported in immune and epithelial cells (Alzola et al, 1998; Chaib et al, 2000; Andrei et al, 2004; Kahlenberg and Dubyak, 2004; Garcia-Marcos et al, 2006b; Costa-Junior et al, 2011) and has been associated with various downstream effects such as PLD activation, kallikrein secretion, bioactive lipid generation, and pore formation as well as IL-1β processing, blebbing, and PS-flip (Garcia-Marcos et al, 2006b; Anrather et al, 2011; Costa-Junior et al, 2011; Norris et al, 2014; Wan et al, 2014; Alarcon-Vila et al, 2019; Janks et al, 2019). Janks et al (2019) recently reported an involvement of undefined chloride channels downstream of PLA2 in some of these processes. The mechanism of PLA2 activation by P2X7 remains unclear but was suggested to involve MAP kinases, P-I4 kinase/PIP2 (Garcia-Marcos et al, 2006b; Wan et al, 2014) and/or n-SMase activation in lipid rafts (Garcia-Marcos et al, 2006a).…”