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Identification of bacterial muramyl dipeptide as activator of the NALP3/cryopyrin inflammasome

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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 14, 期 21, 页码 1929-1934

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.027

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Activation of caspase-1 and subsequent processing and secretion of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1beta is triggered upon assembly of the inflammasome complex [1]. It is generally believed that bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LIPS) are activators of the inflammasome through stimulation of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) [2]. Like TLRs, NALP3/Cryopyrin, which is a key component of the inflammasome [3), contains Leucine-Rich-Repeats (LRRs). LRRs are frequently used to sense bacterial components [1, 4, 5], thus raising the possibility that bacteria directly activate the inflammasome. Here, we show that bacterial peptidoglycans (PGN), but surprisingly not LIPS, induce NALP3-mediated activation of caspase-1 and maturation of proIL-1beta. Activation is independent of TLRs because the PGN degradation product muramyl dipeptide (MDP), which is not sensed by TLRs, is the minimal-activating structure. Macrophages from a patient with Muckle-Wells syndrome, an autoinflammatory disease associated with mutations in the NALP3/Cryopyrin gene, show increased IL-1beta secretion in the presence of MDP. The activation of the NALP3-inflammasome by MDP may be the basis of the potent adjuvant activity of MDP.

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