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Immunity ; 55(3): 423-441.e9, 2022 03 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35139355

RESUMO

Cell death plays an important role during pathogen infections. Here, we report that interferon-γ (IFNγ) sensitizes macrophages to Toll-like receptor (TLR)-induced death that requires macrophage-intrinsic death ligands and caspase-8 enzymatic activity, which trigger the mitochondrial apoptotic effectors, BAX and BAK. The pro-apoptotic caspase-8 substrate BID was dispensable for BAX and BAK activation. Instead, caspase-8 reduced pro-survival BCL-2 transcription and increased inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), thus facilitating BAX and BAK signaling. IFNγ-primed, TLR-induced macrophage killing required iNOS, which licensed apoptotic caspase-8 activity and reduced the BAX and BAK inhibitors, A1 and MCL-1. The deletion of iNOS or caspase-8 limited SARS-CoV-2-induced disease in mice, while caspase-8 caused lethality independent of iNOS in a model of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. These findings reveal that iNOS selectively licenses programmed cell death, which may explain how nitric oxide impacts disease severity in SARS-CoV-2 infection and other iNOS-associated inflammatory conditions.


Assuntos
COVID-19/imunologia , Caspase 8/metabolismo , Interferon gama/metabolismo , Linfo-Histiocitose Hemofagocítica/imunologia , Macrófagos/imunologia , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , SARS-CoV-2/fisiologia , Animais , Caspase 8/genética , Células Cultivadas , Citotoxicidade Imunológica , Humanos , Interferon gama/genética , Ativação de Macrófagos , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Óxido Nítrico Sintase Tipo II/metabolismo , Moléculas com Motivos Associados a Patógenos/imunologia , Transdução de Sinais , Proteína Killer-Antagonista Homóloga a bcl-2/genética , Proteína Killer-Antagonista Homóloga a bcl-2/metabolismo , Proteína X Associada a bcl-2/genética , Proteína X Associada a bcl-2/metabolismo
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Nature ; 575(7784): 683-687, 2019 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31748744

RESUMO

Caspase-8 is the initiator caspase of extrinsic apoptosis1,2 and inhibits necroptosis mediated by RIPK3 and MLKL. Accordingly, caspase-8 deficiency in mice causes embryonic lethality3, which can be rescued by deletion of either Ripk3 or Mlkl4-6. Here we show that the expression of enzymatically inactive CASP8(C362S) causes embryonic lethality in mice by inducing necroptosis and pyroptosis. Similar to Casp8-/- mice3,7, Casp8C362S/C362S mouse embryos died after endothelial cell necroptosis leading to cardiovascular defects. MLKL deficiency rescued the cardiovascular phenotype but unexpectedly caused perinatal lethality in Casp8C362S/C362S mice, indicating that CASP8(C362S) causes necroptosis-independent death at later stages of embryonic development. Specific loss of the catalytic activity of caspase-8 in intestinal epithelial cells induced intestinal inflammation similar to intestinal epithelial cell-specific Casp8 knockout mice8. Inhibition of necroptosis by additional deletion of Mlkl severely aggravated intestinal inflammation and caused premature lethality in Mlkl knockout mice with specific loss of caspase-8 catalytic activity in intestinal epithelial cells. Expression of CASP8(C362S) triggered the formation of ASC specks, activation of caspase-1 and secretion of IL-1ß. Both embryonic lethality and premature death were completely rescued in Casp8C362S/C362SMlkl-/-Asc-/- or Casp8C362S/C362SMlkl-/-Casp1-/- mice, indicating that the activation of the inflammasome promotes CASP8(C362S)-mediated tissue pathology when necroptosis is blocked. Therefore, caspase-8 represents the molecular switch that controls apoptosis, necroptosis and pyroptosis, and prevents tissue damage during embryonic development and adulthood.


Assuntos
Apoptose/genética , Caspase 8/genética , Caspase 8/metabolismo , Necroptose/genética , Piroptose/genética , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Células Cultivadas , Ativação Enzimática/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Técnicas de Inativação de Genes , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Inflamassomos/metabolismo , Mucosa Intestinal/citologia , Mucosa Intestinal/enzimologia , Queratinócitos/citologia , Queratinócitos/patologia , Camundongos , Mutação , Receptor TIE-2/genética , Receptor TIE-2/metabolismo
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Mol Cell ; 50(6): 818-830, 2013 Jun 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23806334

RESUMO

Conjugation of Met1-linked polyubiquitin (Met1-Ub) by the linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex (LUBAC) is an important regulatory modification in innate immune signaling. So far, only few Met1-Ub substrates have been described, and the regulatory mechanisms have remained elusive. We recently identified that the ovarian tumor (OTU) family deubiquitinase OTULIN specifically disassembles Met1-Ub. Here, we report that OTULIN is critical for limiting Met1-Ub accumulation after nucleotide-oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (NOD2) stimulation, and that OTULIN depletion augments signaling downstream of NOD2. Affinity purification of Met1-Ub followed by quantitative proteomics uncovered RIPK2 as the predominant NOD2-regulated substrate. Accordingly, Met1-Ub on RIPK2 was largely inhibited by overexpressing OTULIN and was increased by OTULIN depletion. Intriguingly, OTULIN-depleted cells spontaneously accumulated Met1-Ub on LUBAC components, and NOD2 or TNFR1 stimulation led to extensive Met1-Ub accumulation on receptor complex components. We propose that OTULIN restricts Met1-Ub formation after immune receptor stimulation to prevent unwarranted proinflammatory signaling.


Assuntos
Endopeptidases/fisiologia , Imunidade Inata , Metionina/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Ubiquitinação , Expressão Gênica , Técnicas de Silenciamento de Genes , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Mediadores da Inflamação/metabolismo , NF-kappa B/metabolismo , Proteína Adaptadora de Sinalização NOD2/metabolismo , Mapeamento de Interação de Proteínas , Proteína Serina-Treonina Quinase 2 de Interação com Receptor/metabolismo , Proteínas Inibidoras de Apoptose Ligadas ao Cromossomo X/metabolismo
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Br J Cancer ; 120(1): 69-78, 2019 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30377339

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Immune infiltration is implicated in the development of acquired resistance to anti-angiogenic cancer therapy. We therefore investigated the correlation between neutrophil infiltration in metastasis of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and survival after treatment with bevacizumab. Our study identifies CD177+ tumour neutrophil infiltration as an adverse prognostic factor for bevacizumab treatment. We further demonstrate that a novel anti-VEGF/anti-Ang2 compound (BI-880) can overcome resistance to VEGF inhibition in experimental tumour models. METHODS: A total of 85 metastatic CRC patients were stratified into cohorts that had either received chemotherapy alone (n = 39) or combined with bevacizumab (n = 46). Tumour CD177+ neutrophil infiltration was correlated to clinical outcome. The impact of neutrophil infiltration on anti-VEGF or anti-VEGF/anti-Ang2 therapy was studied in both xenograft and syngeneic tumour models by immunohistochemistry. RESULTS: The survival of bevacizumab-treated CRC patients in the presence of CD177+ infiltrates was significantly reduced compared to patients harbouring CD177- metastases. BI-880 treatment reduced the development of hypoxia associated with bevacizumab treatment and improved vascular normalisation in xenografts. Furthermore, neutrophil depletion or BI-880 treatment restored treatment sensitivity in a syngeneic tumour model of anti-VEGF resistance. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings implicate CD177 as a biomarker for bevacizumab and suggest VEGF/Ang2 inhibition as a strategy to overcome neutrophil associated resistance to anti-angiogenic treatment.


Assuntos
Neoplasias Colorretais/tratamento farmacológico , Isoantígenos/genética , Neovascularização Patológica/tratamento farmacológico , Receptores de Superfície Celular/genética , Fator A de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular/genética , Proteínas de Transporte Vesicular/genética , Idoso , Inibidores da Angiogênese/administração & dosagem , Animais , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/administração & dosagem , Bevacizumab/administração & dosagem , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Neoplasias Colorretais/genética , Neoplasias Colorretais/patologia , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos/genética , Feminino , Proteínas Ligadas por GPI/genética , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Metástase Neoplásica , Células-Tronco Neoplásicas/efeitos dos fármacos , Neovascularização Patológica/genética , Neovascularização Patológica/patologia , Neutrófilos/efeitos dos fármacos , Fator A de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular/antagonistas & inibidores , Ensaios Antitumorais Modelo de Xenoenxerto
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EMBO J ; 33(19): 2171-87, 2014 Oct 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25056906

RESUMO

The X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) is a potent caspase inhibitor, best known for its anti-apoptotic function in cancer. During apoptosis, XIAP is antagonized by SMAC, which is released from the mitochondria upon caspase-mediated activation of BID. Recent studies suggest that XIAP is involved in immune signaling. Here, we explore XIAP as an important mediator of an immune response against the enteroinvasive bacterium Shigella flexneri, both in vitro and in vivo. Our data demonstrate for the first time that Shigella evades the XIAP-mediated immune response by inducing the BID-dependent release of SMAC from the mitochondria. Unlike apoptotic stimuli, Shigella activates the calpain-dependent cleavage of BID to trigger the release of SMAC, which antagonizes the inflammatory action of XIAP without inducing apoptosis. Our results demonstrate how the cellular death machinery can be subverted by an invasive pathogen to ensure bacterial colonization.


Assuntos
Proteína Agonista de Morte Celular de Domínio Interatuante com BH3/fisiologia , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Disenteria Bacilar/imunologia , Mitocôndrias/imunologia , Proteínas Mitocondriais/metabolismo , Shigella/imunologia , Proteínas Inibidoras de Apoptose Ligadas ao Cromossomo X/fisiologia , Animais , Apoptose , Proteínas Reguladoras de Apoptose , Western Blotting , Caspases/metabolismo , Proliferação de Células , Células Cultivadas , Disenteria Bacilar/microbiologia , Disenteria Bacilar/patologia , Feminino , Hepatócitos/imunologia , Hepatócitos/metabolismo , Hepatócitos/patologia , Técnicas Imunoenzimáticas , Integrases/metabolismo , Masculino , Potencial da Membrana Mitocondrial , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Mitocôndrias/patologia , Proteínas Mitocondriais/imunologia , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase em Tempo Real , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Shigella/patogenicidade , Transdução de Sinais , Espectrometria de Massas por Ionização por Electrospray , Espectrometria de Massas em Tandem
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Mucosal Immunol ; 2024 Aug 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39137882

RESUMO

Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) are abundant in the developing or healthy intestine to critically support tissue homeostasis in response to microbial colonization. However, intestinal ILC3s are reduced during chronic infections, colorectal cancer, or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and the mechanisms driving these alterations remain poorly understood. Here we employed RNA sequencing of ILC3s from IBD patients and observed a significant upregulation of RIPK3, the central regulator of necroptosis, during intestinal inflammation. This was modeled in mice where we found that intestinal ILC3s express RIPK3, with conventional (c)ILC3s exhibiting high RIPK3 and low levels of pro-survival genes relative to lymphoid tissue inducer (LTi)-like ILC3s. ILC3-specific RIPK3 is promoted by gut microbiota, further upregulated following enteric infection, and dependent upon IL-23R and STAT3 signaling. However, lineage-specific deletion of RIPK3 revealed a redundant role in ILC3 survival, due to a blockade of RIPK3-mediated necroptosis by caspase 8, which was also activated in response to enteric infection. In contrast, lineage-specific deletion of caspase 8 resulted in loss of cILC3s from the healthy intestine and all ILC3 subsets during enteric infection, which increased pathogen burdens and gut inflammation. This function of caspase 8 required catalytic activity induced by TNF or TL1A and was dispensable if RIPK3 was simultaneously deleted. Caspase 8 activation and cell death were associated with increased Fas on ILC3s, and the Fas-FasL pathway was upregulated by cILC3s during enteric infection, which could restrain the abundance of intestinal ILC3s. Collectively, these data reveal that interpretation of key cytokine signals controls ILC3 survival following microbial challenge, and that an imbalance of these pathways, such as in IBD or across ILC3 subsets, provokes depletion of tissue-protective ILC3s from the inflamed intestine.

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Cell Death Discov ; 7(1): 327, 2021 Oct 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34718331

RESUMO

Necrotic cell death represents a major pathogenic mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection. It is increasingly evident that Mtb induces several types of regulated necrosis but how these are interconnected and linked to the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines remains unknown. Exploiting a clinical cohort of tuberculosis patients, we show here that the number and size of necrotic lesions correlates with IL-1ß plasma levels as a strong indicator of inflammasome activation. Our mechanistic studies reveal that Mtb triggers mitochondrial permeability transition (mPT) and subsequently extensive macrophage necrosis, which requires activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome. NLRP3-driven mitochondrial damage is dependent on proteolytic activation of the pore-forming effector protein gasdermin D (GSDMD), which links two distinct cell death machineries. Intriguingly, GSDMD, but not the membranolytic mycobacterial ESX-1 secretion system, is dispensable for IL-1ß secretion from Mtb-infected macrophages. Thus, our study dissects a novel mechanism of pathogen-induced regulated necrosis by identifying mitochondria as central regulatory hubs capable of delineating cytokine secretion and lytic cell death.

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Nat Microbiol ; 5(2): 354-367, 2020 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31873204

RESUMO

The cytosolic appearance and propagation of bacteria cause overwhelming cellular stress responses that induce apoptosis under normal conditions. Therefore, successful bacterial colonization depends on the ability of intracellular pathogens to block apoptosis and to safeguard bacterial replicative niches. Here, we show that the cytosolic Gram-negative bacterium Shigella flexneri stalls apoptosis by inhibiting effector caspase activity. Our data identified lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a bona fide effector caspase inhibitor that directly binds caspases by involving its O-antigen (O Ag) moiety. Bacterial strains that lacked the O Ag or failed to replicate within the cytosol were incapable of blocking apoptosis and exhibited reduced virulence in a murine model of bacterial infection. Our findings demonstrate how Shigella inhibits pro-apoptotic caspase activity, effectively delays coordinated host-cell demise and supports its intracellular propagation. Next to the recently discovered pro-inflammatory role of cytosolic LPS, our data reveal a distinct mode of LPS action that, through the disruption of the early coordinated non-lytic cell death response, ultimately supports the inflammatory breakdown of infected cells at later time points.


Assuntos
Apoptose/fisiologia , Inibidores de Caspase/metabolismo , Caspases Efetoras/metabolismo , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/patogenicidade , Lipopolissacarídeos/metabolismo , Shigella flexneri/patogenicidade , Animais , Citosol/microbiologia , Feminino , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/genética , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/fisiologia , Células HeLa , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Antígenos O/metabolismo , Shigella flexneri/genética , Shigella flexneri/fisiologia , Virulência
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Nat Commun ; 10(1): 688, 2019 02 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30737374

RESUMO

Corticosteroids are host-directed drugs with proven beneficial effect on survival of tuberculosis (TB) patients, but their precise mechanisms of action in this disease remain largely unknown. Here we show that corticosteroids such as dexamethasone inhibit necrotic cell death of cells infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) by facilitating mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase 1 (MKP-1)-dependent dephosphorylation of p38 MAPK. Characterization of infected mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL) and tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1) knockout cells show that the underlying mechanism is independent from TNFα-signaling and necroptosis. Our results link corticosteroid function and p38 MAPK inhibition to abrogation of necrotic cell death mediated by mitochondrial membrane permeability transition, and open new avenues for research on novel host-directed therapies (HDT).


Assuntos
Corticosteroides/farmacologia , Membranas Mitocondriais/efeitos dos fármacos , Membranas Mitocondriais/metabolismo , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/efeitos dos fármacos , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/metabolismo , Dexametasona/farmacologia , Humanos , Fosforilação/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores Tipo I de Fatores de Necrose Tumoral/genética , Receptores Tipo I de Fatores de Necrose Tumoral/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologia , Proteínas Quinases p38 Ativadas por Mitógeno/metabolismo
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