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Nitric oxide controls the immunopathology of tuberculosis by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome-dependent processing of IL-1β.

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By exogenously controlling the replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo, the requirement for antimicrobial immunity is obviated and it is discovered that both IL-1 production and infection-induced immunopathology were suppressed by lymphocyte-derived interferon-γ (IFN-γ).
Abstract
Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is an important mediator of innate immunity but can also promote inflammatory tissue damage. During chronic infections such as tuberculosis, the beneficial antimicrobial role of IL-1 must be balanced with the need to prevent immunopathology. By exogenously controlling the replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo, we obviated the requirement for antimicrobial immunity and discovered that both IL-1 production and infection-induced immunopathology were suppressed by lymphocyte-derived interferon-γ (IFN-γ). This effect was mediated by nitric oxide (NO), which we found specifically inhibited assembly of the NLRP3 inflammasome via thiol nitrosylation. Our data indicate that the NO produced as a result of adaptive immunity is indispensable in modulating the destructive innate inflammatory responses elicited during persistent infections.

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Copper Regulates the Canonical NLRP3 Inflammasome.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that NLRP3 inflammasome activation is blocked by removing copper from the active site of superoxide dismutase 1, recapitulating impaired inflammaome function insuperoxide dismUTase 1–deficient mice, indicating that targeting the intracellular copper homeostasis has potential for the treatment ofNLRP3-dependent diseases.
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AIM2 recognizes cytosolic dsDNA and forms a caspase-1 activating inflammasome with ASC

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Nitrosylation. the prototypic redox-based signaling mechanism.

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