Disruption of glycolytic flux is a signal for inflammasome signaling and pyroptotic cell death
- Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
- Boston College, United States
Abstract
When innate immune cells such as macrophages are challenged with environmental stresses or infection by pathogens, they trigger the rapid assembly of multi-protein complexes called inflammasomes that are responsible for initiating pro-inflammatory responses and a form of cell death termed pyroptosis. We describe here the identification of an intracellular trigger of NLRP3-mediated inflammatory signaling, IL-1β production and pyroptosis in primed murine bone marrow-derived macrophages that is mediated by disruption of glycolytic flux. This signal results from a drop of NADH levels and induction of mitochondrial ROS production and can be rescued by addition of products that restore NADH production. This signal is also important for host cell response to the intracellular pathogen Salmonella typhimurium, which can disrupt metabolism by uptake of host cell glucose. These results reveal an important inflammatory signaling network used by immune cells to sense metabolic dysfunction or infection by intracellular pathogens.
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Animal experimentation: This work was approved under ABP protocol 1331 (Entitled Chemical probes to study host responses to bacterial pathogens) and APLAC protocol 18026. Primary cells were isolated from mouse bone marrow following strict accordance with the NIH guide for the care and use of laboratory animals. These protocols were reviewed and approved by the Environmental Health and Safety Department of Stanford University and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Stanford University, respectively.
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© 2016, Sanman et al.
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Disruption of glycolytic flux is a signal for inflammasome signaling and pyroptotic cell death
eLife 5:e13663.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13663
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