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Caspase-1 self-cleavage is an intrinsic mechanism to terminate inflammasome activity

Overview of attention for article published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, February 2018
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Title
Caspase-1 self-cleavage is an intrinsic mechanism to terminate inflammasome activity
Published in
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, February 2018
DOI 10.1084/jem.20172222
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Authors

Dave Boucher, Mercedes Monteleone, Rebecca C. Coll, Kaiwen W. Chen, Connie M. Ross, Jessica L. Teo, Guillermo A. Gomez, Caroline L. Holley, Damien Bierschenk, Katryn J. Stacey, Alpha S. Yap, Jelena S. Bezbradica, Kate Schroder

Abstract

Host-protective caspase-1 activity must be tightly regulated to prevent pathology, but mechanisms controlling the duration of cellular caspase-1 activity are unknown. Caspase-1 is activated on inflammasomes, signaling platforms that facilitate caspase-1 dimerization and autoprocessing. Previous studies with recombinant protein identified a caspase-1 tetramer composed of two p20 and two p10 subunits (p20/p10) as an active species. In this study, we report that in the cell, the dominant species of active caspase-1 dimers elicited by inflammasomes are in fact full-length p46 and a transient species, p33/p10. Further p33/p10 autoprocessing occurs with kinetics specified by inflammasome size and cell type, and this releases p20/p10 from the inflammasome, whereupon the tetramer becomes unstable in cells and protease activity is terminated. The inflammasome-caspase-1 complex thus functions as a holoenzyme that directs the location of caspase-1 activity but also incorporates an intrinsic self-limiting mechanism that ensures timely caspase-1 deactivation. This intrinsic mechanism of inflammasome signal shutdown offers a molecular basis for the transient nature, and coordinated timing, of inflammasome-dependent inflammatory responses.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 360 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 86 24%
Student > Master 50 14%
Researcher 40 11%
Student > Bachelor 40 11%
Other 19 5%
Other 48 13%
Unknown 77 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 78 22%
Immunology and Microbiology 71 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 7%
Neuroscience 17 5%
Other 40 11%
Unknown 89 25%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 182. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 January 2020.
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#194,613
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Outputs of similar age from The Journal of Experimental Medicine
#4
of 63 outputs
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