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BLOOD
卷 112, 期 5, 页码 1794-1803出版社
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-01-134932
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- National Institute of Arthritis and Muculoskeletal and Skill Diseases (Bethesda, MD)
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in MEFV which encodes a 781-amino acid protein denoted pyrin. We have previously shown that pyrin regulates caspase-1 activation and IL-1 beta production through interaction of its N-terminal PYD motif with the ASC adapter protein, and also modulates IL-1 beta production by interaction of its C-terminal B30.2 domain with the catalytic domains of caspase-1. We now asked whether pyrin might itself be a caspase-1 substrate, and found that pyrin is cleaved by caspase-1 at Asp330, a site remote from the B30.2 domain. Pyrin variants harboring FMF-associated B30.2 mutations were cleaved more efficiently than wild-type pyrin. The N-terminal cleaved fragment interacted with the p65 subunit of NF-kappa B and with I kappa B-alpha through its 15-aa bZIP basic domain and adjacent sequences, respectively, and translocated to the nucleus. The interaction of the N-terminal fragment with p65 enhanced entrance of p65 into the nucleus. The interaction of N-terminal pyrin with I kappa B-alpha induced calpain-mediated degradation of I kappa B-alpha, thus potentiating NF-kappa B activation. Absolute and relative quantities of cleaved pyrin and I kappa B-alpha degradation products were substantially increased in leukocytes from FMF patients compared with healthy controls. Our data support a new pyrin/caspase-1 pathway for NF-kappa B activation.
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