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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 185, 期 10, 页码 6277-6285出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1002330
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- National Institutes of Health [1R01DK60151]
- Scripps Translational Science Institute [1UL1RR025774]
- Renal Research Collaborative/Price Charities
Cytoplasmic innate immune receptors are important therapeutic targets for diseases associated with overproduction of proinflammatory cytokines. One cytoplasmic receptor complex, the Nlrp3 inflammasome, responds to an extensive array of molecules associated with cellular stress. Under normal conditions, Nlrp3 is autorepressed, but in the presence of its ligands, it oligomerizes, recruits apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain (Asc), and triggers caspase 1 activation and the maturation of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-1 beta and IL-18. Because ischemic tissue injury provides a potential source for Nlrp3 ligands, our study compared and contrasted the effects of renal ischemia in wild-type mice and mice deficient in components of the Nlrp3 inflammasome (Nlrp3(-/-) and Asc(-/-) mice). To examine the role of the inflammasome in renal ischemiareperfusion injury (IRI) we also tested its downstream targets caspase 1, IL-1 beta, and IL-18. Both Nlrp3 and Asc were highly expressed in renal tubular epithelium of humans and mice, and the absence of Nlrp3, but not Asc or the downstream inflammasome targets, dramatically protected from kidney IRI. We conclude that Nlrp3 contributes to renal IRI by a direct effect on renal tubular epithelium and that this effect is independent of inflammasome-induced proinflammatory cytokine production. The Journal of Immunology, 2010, 185: 6277-6285.
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