“…Cav-3 KO mice are viable but subject to skeletal and cardiac myopathies (Monier et al, 1995, Hagiwara et al, 2000), and our laboratory and others have demonstrated a critical role for caveolin in protection from ischemia-reperfusion injury (Bromley et al, 2001, Galbiati et al, 2001, Chidlow and Sessa, 2010, Stary et al, 2012). MLR-mediated signal transduction is an important element in the activation of the immune system (Gargalovic and Dory, 2003, Ohnuma et al, 2004, 2009, Sawada et al, 2010, Fu et al, 2012) and inflammatory response (Oakley et al, 2009, Garrean et al, 2006, Feng et al, 2010, Xu et al, 2010, Hu et al, 2008), however this previous work has largely focused on the more ubiquitously expressed Cav-1 isoform. In contrast, the role of Cav-3 in immune system signaling has been relatively under-investigated.…”