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NATURE
Volume 535, Issue 7610, Pages 111-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature18590
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- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB08020202]
- China National Science Foundation Program for Distinguished Young Scholars [31225002]
- Program for International Collaborations [31461143006]
- National Basic Research Program of China 973 Program [2012CB518700, 2014CB849602]
- International Early Career Scientist grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Beijing Scholar Program
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Inflammatory caspases cleave the gasdermin D (GSDMD) protein to trigger pyroptosis, a lytic form of cell death that is crucial for immune defences and diseases. GSDMD contains a functionally important gasdermin-N domain that is shared in the gasdermin family. The functional mechanism of action of gasdermin proteins is unknown. Here we show that the gasdermin-N domains of the gasdermin proteins GSDMD, GSDMA3 and GSDMA can bind membrane lipids, phosphoinositides and cardiolipin, and exhibit membrane-disrupting cytotoxicity in mammalian cells and artificially transformed bacteria. Gasdermin-N moved to the plasma membrane during pyroptosis. Purified gasdermin-N efficiently lysed phosphoinositide/cardiolipin-containing liposomes and formed pores on membranes made of artificial or natural phospholipid mixtures. Most gasdermin pores had an inner diameter of 10-14 nm and contained 16 symmetric protomers. The crystal structure of GSDMA3 showed an autoinhibited two-domain architecture that is conserved in the gasdermin family. Structure-guided mutagenesis demonstrated that the liposome-leakage and pore-forming activities of the gasdermin-N domain are required for pyroptosis. These findings reveal the mechanism for pyroptosis and provide insights into the roles of the gasdermin family in necrosis, immunity and diseases.
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