The ASC inflammasome adapter governs SAA-derived protein aggregation in inflammatory amyloidosis
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ABSTRACT: Extracellularly released molecular inflammasome assemblies (ASC specks) cross-seed Aβ amyloid in Alzheimer's disease. Here we show that ASC governs the extent of inflammation-induced amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis, a systemic disease caused by the aggregation and peripheral deposition of the acute-phase reactant serum amyloid A (SAA) in chronic inflammatory conditions. Using superresolution microscopy, we found that ASC colocalized tightly with SAA in human AA amyloidosis. Recombinant ASC specks accelerated SAA fibril formation and mass spectrometry after limited proteolysis showed that ASC interacts with SAA via its pyrin domain (PYD). In a murine model of inflammatory AA amyloidosis, splenic amyloid load was conspicuously decreased in Pycard-/- mice which lack ASC. Treatment with anti-ASC(PYD) antibodies decreased amyloid loads in wildtype mice suffering from AA amyloidosis. The prevalence of natural anti-ASC IgG (-logEC50{greater than or equal to}2) in 19,334 hospital patients was <0.01%, suggesting that anti-ASC antibody treatment modalities would not be confounded by natural autoimmunity. These findings expand the role played by ASC and IL-1 independent inflammasome employments to extraneural proteinopathies and suggest that anti-ASC immunotherapy may contribute to resolving such diseases.
SUBMITTER: Marco Losa
PROVIDER: S-SCDT-10_1038-S44321-024-00107-0 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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