Caspase-1 Interdomain Linker Cleavage is Required for Pyroptosis

Overview

Journal Life Sci Alliance

Specialties Biochemistry
Biology
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 2020 Feb 14

PMID 32051255

Citations 62

Authors

Daniel P Ball

Cornelius Y Taabazuing

Andrew R Griswold

Elizabeth L Orth

Sahana D Rao

Ilana B Kotliar

Lauren E Vostal

Darren C Johnson

Daniel A Bachovchin

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Abstract

Pathogen-related signals induce a number of cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) to form canonical inflammasomes, which activate pro-caspase-1 and trigger pyroptotic cell death. All well-studied inflammasome-forming PRRs oligomerize with the adapter protein ASC (apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD) to generate a large structure in the cytosol, which induces the dimerization, autoproteolysis, and activation of the pro-caspase-1 zymogen. However, several PRRs can also directly interact with pro-caspase-1 without ASC, forming smaller "ASC-independent" inflammasomes. It is currently thought that little, if any, pro-caspase-1 autoproteolysis occurs during, and is not required for, ASC-independent inflammasome signaling. Here, we show that the related human PRRs NLRP1 and CARD8 exclusively form ASC-dependent and ASC-independent inflammasomes, respectively, identifying CARD8 as the first canonical inflammasome-forming PRR that does not form an ASC-containing signaling platform. Despite their different structures, we discovered that both the NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasomes require pro-caspase-1 autoproteolysis between the small and large catalytic subunits to induce pyroptosis. Thus, pro-caspase-1 self-cleavage is a required regulatory step for pyroptosis induced by human canonical inflammasomes.

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