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IMMUNITY
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 566-575Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2009.02.006
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- National Institutes of Health [AR056296, A1065097, A1170251]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [HHSN266200700005C]
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Virus-induced interlukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and IL-18 production in macrophages are mediated via caspase-1 pathway. Multiple microbial components, including viral RNA, are thought to trigger assembly of the cryopyrin inflammasome resulting in caspase-1 activation. Here, we demonstrated that NIrp3(-/-) and Casp1(-/-) mice were more susceptible than wildtype mice after infection with a pathogenic influenza A virus. This enhanced morbidity correlated with decreased neutrophil and monocyte recruitment and reduced cytokine and chemokine production. Despite the effect on innate immunity, cryopyrin-deficiency was not associated with any obvious defect in virus control or on the later emergence of the adaptive response. Early epithelial necrosis was, however, more severe in the infected mutants, with extensive collagen deposition leading to later respiratory compromise. These findings reveal a function of the cryopyrin inflammasome in healing responses. Thus, cryopyrin and caspase-1 are central to both innate immunity and to moderating lung pathology in influenza pneumonia.
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