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Gout-associated uric acid crystals activate the NALP3 inflammasome
Abstract
Development of the acute and chronic inflammatory responses known as gout and pseudogout are associated with the deposition of monosodium urate (MSU) or calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals, respectively, in joints and periarticular tissues. Although MSU crystals were first identified as the aetiological agent of gout in the eighteenth century and more recently as a 'danger signal' released from dying cells, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying MSU- or CPPD-induced inflammation. Here we show that MSU and CPPD engage the caspase-1-activating NALP3 (also called cryopyrin) inflammasome, resulting in the production of active interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL-18. Macrophages from mice deficient in various components of the inflammasome such as caspase-1, ASC and NALP3 are defective in crystal-induced IL-1beta activation. Moreover, an impaired neutrophil influx is found in an in vivo model of crystal-induced peritonitis in inflammasome-deficient mice or mice deficient in the IL-1beta receptor (IL-1R). These findings provide insight into the molecular processes underlying the inflammatory conditions of gout and pseudogout, and further support a pivotal role of the inflammasome in several autoinflammatory diseases.
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“Colchicine impairs neutrophil adhesion to vascular endothelium and degranulation and blocks activation of the NLRP3 (NOD-, LRR-, and pyrin domaincontaining protein 3) inflammasome, which is required for cleaving caspase-1 leading to the production of IL-1 β and IL-18. 134-136”
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“Nucleotide products such as uric acid can also function as DAMPs, presumably by activating the inflammasome in APC, thereby stimulating the production of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-18 and IL-33, the secretion of which depends on the inflammasome-mediated activation of caspase-145,46.”
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“The secretion of mature IL-1β induced by asbestos was comparable to amounts observed with monosodium urate crystals (MSU), a known potent activator of IL-1β processing (7) (Fig. 1, A and B).”
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“In addition to PAMPs, Nalp3 has the extraordinary capacity of sensing endogenous stress-associated danger signals (DAMPs) such as ATP (9) or MSU (7).”
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“The Nalp3 inflammasome is implicated in the pathological increase of IL-1β production in autoinflammatory syndromes, such as Muckle-Wells syndrome (22), as well as inflammatory processes, such as gout and pseudogout (7).”
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“The NLRP3 inflammasome senses crystalline danger signals that can occur during autoinflammatory diseases, such as gout or atherosclerosis, and environmental diseases, such as silicosis or asbestosis (18, 20, 22).”
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“Inhalation of crystalline silica can induce inflammation by stimulating the NLRP3 inflammasome, a cytosolic receptor complex that plays a critical role in driving inflammatory immune responses.”
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“NLRP3 has been shown to respond to sterile stimuli, including asbestos, silica, MSU and CPPD crystals55, cholesterol crystals and β-amyloid fibrils56.”
From Sterile inflammation: sensing and reacting to damage (2010) · cites this paper as [55]
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“Urate and cholesterol crystals, as well as sterile particulates, for example, can bypass the requirement for ATP and P2RX7 for IL-1β production55,59.”
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“Consistently, in mouse models of sterile injury, such as gout, asbestosis and silicosis, NLRP3-deficient mice exhibited decreased inflammation with reduced levels of tissue infiltration by neutrophils or macrophages55,57,58.”
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“The inflammasome is a multimolecular cytosolic sensor that detects pathogenic microorganisms and sterile stressors and activates caspase-1 during the process of pyroptosis, which, in turn, causes the inactive precursor forms of interleukin-1β and interleukin-18 to become the active forms.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Martinon, F., Pétrilli, V., Mayor, A., Tardivel, A., & Tschopp, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Tschopp, Jürg
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2006-01-11
- Volume
- 440
- Issue
- 7081
- Pages
- 237-241
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2009800174
- Cited by
- 5,326
- References
- 31
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- FWCI
- 76.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Inflammasome and immune disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Nephrology › Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
- Keywords
- NLRP3 inflammasome, NLRP3, gout, urate crystals, monosodium urate, calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate, pseudogout, caspase-1, IL-1β, IL-18, autoinflammatory disease, innate immunity, crystal-induced inflammation, neutrophil influx, IL-1 receptor, macrophages
- MeSH terms
- NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein, Animals, Calcium Pyrophosphate, Carrier Proteins, Cell Line, Cells, Cultured, Chondrocalcinosis, Colchicine, Disease Models, Animal, Gout, Humans, Inflammation, Interleukin-1, Macrophages, Neutrophils, Peritonitis, Uric Acid, Receptors, Interleukin-1, Caspase 1, Mice
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