Publication Date:
2009-01-23
Description:
The innate immune system senses nucleic acids by germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors. RNA is sensed by Toll-like receptor members TLR3, TLR7 and TLR8, or by the RNA helicases RIG-I (also known as DDX58) and MDA-5 (IFIH1). Little is known about sensors for cytoplasmic DNA that trigger antiviral and/or inflammatory responses. The best characterized of these responses involves activation of the TANK-binding kinase (TBK1)-interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) signalling axis to trigger transcriptional induction of type I interferon genes. A second, less well-defined pathway leads to the activation of an 'inflammasome' that, via caspase-1, controls the catalytic cleavage of the pro-forms of the cytokines IL1beta and IL18 (refs 6, 7). Using mouse and human cells, here we identify the PYHIN (pyrin and HIN domain-containing protein) family member absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2) as a receptor for cytosolic DNA, which regulates caspase-1. The HIN200 domain of AIM2 binds to DNA, whereas the pyrin domain (but not that of the other PYHIN family members) associates with the adaptor molecule ASC (apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase activation and recruitment domain) to activate both NF-kappaB and caspase-1. Knockdown of Aim2 abrogates caspase-1 activation in response to cytoplasmic double-stranded DNA and the double-stranded DNA vaccinia virus. Collectively, these observations identify AIM2 as a new receptor for cytoplasmic DNA, which forms an inflammasome with the ligand and ASC to activate caspase-1.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726264/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726264/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hornung, Veit -- Ablasser, Andrea -- Charrel-Dennis, Marie -- Bauernfeind, Franz -- Horvath, Gabor -- Caffrey, Daniel R -- Latz, Eicke -- Fitzgerald, Katherine A -- AI-065483/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI-067497/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI067497/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI067497-03/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI067497-04/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI067497-05/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Mar 26;458(7237):514-8. doi: 10.1038/nature07725. Epub 2009 Jan 21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA. veit.hornung@uni-bonn.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19158675" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins
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Caspase 1/*metabolism
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Cell Death
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Cell Line
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Cytoskeletal Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Cytosol/*metabolism
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DNA/immunology/*metabolism
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DNA-Binding Proteins
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Enzyme Activation
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Humans
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Inflammation/enzymology/*metabolism/pathology
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Mice
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Nuclear Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Poly dA-dT/immunology
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Protein Binding
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Vaccinia virus/immunology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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