PUBLICATION
Dynamics of in vivo ASC speck formation
- Authors
- Kuri, P., Schieber, N.L., Thumberger, T., Wittbrodt, J., Schwab, Y., Leptin, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170714-13
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- The Journal of cell biology 216(9): 2891-2909 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kuri, Paola, Leptin, Maria, Wittbrodt, Jochen
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Phosphorylation
- Inflammasomes/drug effects
- Inflammasomes/genetics
- Inflammasomes/metabolism*
- Inflammasomes/ultrastructure
- Genotype
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Animals
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- Zebrafish Proteins/ultrastructure
- Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
- Pyroptosis
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Phenotype
- Protein Binding
- Signal Transduction
- Microscopy, Video
- NLR Proteins/genetics
- NLR Proteins/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Mutation
- CRISPR-Cas Systems
- Keratinocytes/drug effects
- Keratinocytes/metabolism*
- Keratinocytes/pathology
- Keratinocytes/ultrastructure
- PubMed
- 28701426 Full text @ J. Cell Biol.
Citation
Kuri, P., Schieber, N.L., Thumberger, T., Wittbrodt, J., Schwab, Y., Leptin, M. (2017) Dynamics of in vivo ASC speck formation. The Journal of cell biology. 216(9):2891-2909.
Abstract
Activated danger or pathogen sensors trigger assembly of the inflammasome adaptor ASC into specks, large signaling platforms considered hallmarks of inflammasome activation. Because a lack of in vivo tools has prevented the study of endogenous ASC dynamics, we generated a live ASC reporter through CRISPR/Cas9 tagging of the endogenous gene in zebrafish. We see strong ASC expression in the skin and other epithelia that act as barriers to insult. A toxic stimulus triggered speck formation and rapid pyroptosis in keratinocytes in vivo. Macrophages engulfed and digested that speck-containing, pyroptotic debris. A three-dimensional, ultrastructural reconstruction, based on correlative light and electron microscopy of the in vivo assembled specks revealed a compact network of highly intercrossed filaments, whereas pyrin domain (PYD) or caspase activation and recruitment domain alone formed filamentous aggregates. The effector caspase is recruited through PYD, whose overexpression induced pyroptosis but only after substantial delay. Therefore, formation of a single, compact speck and rapid cell-death induction in vivo requires a full-length ASC.
Errata / Notes
This article is corrected by ZDB-PUB-220906-82 .
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping