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Guanylate-binding proteins convert cytosolic bacteria into caspase-4 signaling platforms

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Wandel, Michal P., Kim, Bae-Hoon, Park, Eui-Soon, Boyle, Keith B., Nayak, Komal, Lagrange, Brice, Herod, Adrian, Henry, Thomas, Zilbauer, Matthias, Rohde, John, MacMicking, John D., Randow, Felix·2020·Nature Immunology

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Bacterial lipopolysaccharide triggers human caspase-4 (murine caspase-11) to cleave gasdermin-D and induce pyroptotic cell death. How lipopolysaccharide sequestered in the membranes of cytosol-invading bacteria activates caspases remains unknown. Here we show that in interferon-γ-stimulated cells guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs) assemble on the surface of Gram-negative bacteria into polyvalent signaling platforms required for activation of caspase-4. Caspase-4 activation is hierarchically controlled by GBPs; GBP1 initiates platform assembly, GBP2 and GBP4 control caspase-4 recruitment, and GBP3 governs caspase-4 activation. In response to cytosol-invading bacteria, activation of caspase-4 through the GBP platform is essential to induce gasdermin-D-dependent pyroptosis and processing of interleukin-18, thereby destroying the replicative niche for intracellular bacteria and alerting neighboring cells, respectively. Caspase-11 and GBPs epistatically protect mice against lethal bacterial challenge. Multiple antagonists of the pathway encoded by Shigella flexneri, a cytosol-adapted bacterium, provide compelling evolutionary evidence for the importance of the GBP–caspase-4 pathway in antibacterial defense. How lipopolysaccharide embedded in bacterial membranes is sensed by intracellular defense mechanisms has been puzzling. Randow and colleagues show that guanylate-binding proteins assemble on the surface of Gram-negative bacteria to initiate downstream pyroptosis.

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Wandel, M. P., Kim, B.-H., Park, E.-S., Boyle, K. B., Nayak, K., Lagrange, B., Herod, A., Henry, T., Zilbauer, M., Rohde, J., MacMicking, J. D., & Randow, F.
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Nature Immunology
Published
2020-06-15
Volume
21
Issue
8
Pages
880-891
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  • 1529-2908 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2916
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Wandel, M. P., Kim, B.-H., Park, E.-S., Boyle, K. B., Nayak, K., Lagrange, B., Herod, A., Henry, T., Zilbauer, M., Rohde, J., MacMicking, J. D., & Randow, F. (2020). Guanylate-binding proteins convert cytosolic bacteria into caspase-4 signaling platforms. Nature Immunology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-020-0697-2

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