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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 213, Issue 5, Pages 647-656Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20160006
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China Program for Distinguished Young Scholars [31225002]
- Program for International Collaborations [31461143006]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB08020202]
- National Basic Research Program of China 973 Program [2012CB518700, 2014CB849602]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Beijing Scholar Program
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Biochemical studies suggest that the NAIP family of NLR proteins are cytosolic innate receptors that directly recognize bacterial ligands and trigger NLRC4 inflammasome activation. In this study, we generated Naip5(-/-), Naip1(-/-), and Naip2(-/-) mice and showed that bone marrow macrophages derived from these knockout mice are specifically deficient in detecting bacterial flagellin, the type III secretion system needle, and the rod protein, respectively. Naip1(-/-), Naip2(-/-), and Naip5(-/-) mice also resist lethal inflammasome activation by the corresponding ligand. Furthermore, infections performed in the Naip-deficient macrophages have helped to define the major signal in Legionella pneumophila, Salmonella Typhimurium and Shigella flexneri that is detected by the NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome. Using an engineered S. Typhimurium infection model, we demonstrate the critical role of NAIPs in clearing bacterial infection and protecting mice from bacterial virulence-induced lethality. These results provide definitive genetic evidence for the important physiological function of NAIPs in antibacterial defense and inflammatory damage-induced lethality in mice.
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