Tripping the Wire: Sensing of Viral Protease Activity by CARD8 and NLRP1 Inflammasomes

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Immunol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2023 Jun 13

PMID 37311351

Authors

Lennice K Castro

Matthew D Daugherty

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Abstract

Host innate immune sensors are vital for the initial detection of pathogen infection. Such sensors thus need to constantly adapt in escalating evolutionary arms races with pathogens. Recently, two inflammasome-forming proteins, CARD8 and NLRP1, have emerged as innate immune sensors for the enzymatic activity of virus-encoded proteases. When cleaved within a rapidly evolving 'tripwire' region, CARD8 and NLRP1 assemble into inflammasomes that initiate pyroptotic cell death and pro-inflammatory cytokine release as a form of effector-triggered immunity. Short motifs in the CARD8 and NLRP1 tripwires mimic the protease-specific cleavage sites of picornaviruses, coronaviruses, and HIV-1, providing virus-specific sensing that can rapidly change between closely related hosts and within the human population. Recent work highlights the evolutionary arms races between viral proteases and NLRP1 and CARD8, including insights into the mechanisms of inflammasome activation, host diversity of viral sensing, and means that viruses have evolved to avoid tripping the wire.

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