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Neutrophil IL-1? processing induced by pneumolysin is mediated by the NLRP3/ASC inflammasome and caspase-1 activation and is dependent on K+ efflux.

ABSTRACT: Although neutrophils are the most abundant cells in acute infection and inflammation, relatively little attention has been paid to their role in inflammasome formation and IL-1? processing. In the present study, we investigated the mechanism by which neutrophils process IL-1? in response to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Using a murine model of S. pneumoniae corneal infection, we demonstrated a requirement for IL-1? in bacterial clearance, and we showed that Nod-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3), apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase activation and recruitment domain (ASC), and caspase-1 are essential for IL-1? production and bacterial killing in the cornea. Neutrophils in infected corneas had multiple specks with enzymatically active caspase-1 (YVAD-FLICA 660), and bone marrow neutrophils stimulated with heat-killed S. pneumoniae (signal 1) and pneumolysin (signal 2) exhibited multiple specks when stained for NLRP3, ASC, or Caspase-1. High-molecular mass ASC complexes were also detected, consistent with oligomer formation. Pneumolysin induced K(+) efflux in neutrophils, and blocking K(+) efflux inhibited caspase-1 activation and IL-1? processing; however, neutrophils did not undergo pyroptosis, indicating that K(+) efflux and IL-1? processing is not a consequence of cell death. There was also no role for lysosomal destabilization or neutrophil elastase in pneumolysin-mediated IL-1? processing in neutrophils. Taken together, these findings demonstrate an essential role for neutrophil-derived IL-1? in S. pneumoniae infection, and they elucidate the role of the NLRP3 inflammasome in cleavage and secretion of IL-1? in neutrophils. Given the ubiquitous presence of neutrophils in acute bacterial and fungal infections, these findings will have implications for other microbial diseases.

SUBMITTER: Karmakar M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4369676 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neutrophil IL-1β processing induced by pneumolysin is mediated by the NLRP3/ASC inflammasome and caspase-1 activation and is dependent on K+ efflux.

Karmakar Mausita M Katsnelson Michael M Malak Hesham A HA Greene Neil G NG Howell Scott J SJ Hise Amy G AG Camilli Andrew A Kadioglu Aras A Dubyak George R GR Pearlman Eric E

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20150121 4

Although neutrophils are the most abundant cells in acute infection and inflammation, relatively little attention has been paid to their role in inflammasome formation and IL-1β processing. In the present study, we investigated the mechanism by which neutrophils process IL-1β in response to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Using a murine model of S. pneumoniae corneal infection, we demonstrated a requirement for IL-1β in bacterial clearance, and we showed that Nod-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3), apopt ...[more]

PMID: 25609842

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Neutrophil IL-1? processing induced by pneumolysin is mediated by the NLRP3/ASC inflammasome and caspase-1 activation and is dependent on K+ efflux.

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Neutrophil IL-1β processing induced by pneumolysin is mediated by the NLRP3/ASC inflammasome and caspase-1 activation and is dependent on K+ efflux.

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