“…The receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) and 3 (RIPK3), as well as their target, the mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL), are required to initiate necroptosis [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Necroptosis is associated with various human diseases including ischemic reperfusion injury, inflammatory, neurodegenerative, infectious, autoimmune diseases and cancer [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. Recently, necroptosis has been also involved in mediating organ rejection in cardiac and renal allografts [ 8 , 12 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”