Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is uncoupled from susceptibility to active tuberculosis |
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Authors: | Dorhoi Anca Nouailles Geraldine Jörg Sabine Hagens Kristine Heinemann Ellen Pradl Lydia Oberbeck-Müller Dagmar Duque-Correa Maria Adelaida Reece Stephen T Ruland Jürgen Brosch Roland Tschopp Jürg Gross Olaf Kaufmann Stefan H E |
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Affiliation: | Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. |
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Abstract: | As a hallmark of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) induces granulomatous lung lesions and systemic inflammatory responses during active disease. Molecular regulation of inflammation is associated with inflammasome assembly. We determined the extent to which MTB triggers inflammasome activation and how this impacts on the severity of TB in a mouse model. MTB stimulated release of mature IL-1β in macrophages while attenuated M. bovis BCG failed to do so. Tubercle bacilli specifically activated the NLRP3 inflammasome and this propensity was strictly controlled by the virulence-associated RD1 locus of MTB. However, Nlrp3-deficient mice controlled pulmonary TB, a feature correlated with NLRP3-independent production of IL-1β in infected lungs. Our studies demonstrate that MTB activates the NLRP3 inflammasome in macrophages in an ESX-1-dependent manner. However, during TB, MTB promotes NLRP3- and caspase-1-independent IL-1β release in myeloid cells recruited to lung parenchyma and thus overcomes NLRP3 deficiency in vivo in experimental models. |
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Keywords: | ESX‐1 secretion system Inflammasome IL‐1β Mycobacterium tuberculosis NLRP3 |
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