Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Curr Opin Microbiol. 2013 Jun;16(3):319-26. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2013.04.004. Epub 2013 May 23.
Cell death is an effective strategy to limit intracellular infections. Canonical inflammasomes, including NLRP3, NLRC4, and AIM2, recruit and activate caspase-1 in response to a range of microbial stimuli and endogenous danger signals. Caspase-1 then promotes the secretion of IL-1β and IL-18 and a rapid form of lytic programmed cell death termed pyroptosis. A second inflammatory caspase, mouse caspase-11, mediates pyroptotic death through an unknown non-canonical inflammasome system in response to cytosolic bacteria. In addition, recent work shows that inflammasomes can also recruit procaspase-8, initiating apoptosis. The induction of multiple pathways of cell death has probably evolved to counteract microbial evasion of cell death pathways.
细胞死亡是限制细胞内感染的一种有效策略。经典的炎症小体,包括 NLRP3、NLRC4 和 AIM2,可响应多种微生物刺激物和内源性危险信号招募并激活半胱天冬酶-1。半胱天冬酶-1 随后促进 IL-1β 和 IL-18 的分泌以及一种称为细胞焦亡的快速溶酶体程序性细胞死亡形式。第二种炎症半胱天冬酶,即鼠源半胱天冬酶-11,通过未知的非经典炎症小体系统对细胞质细菌作出反应,介导细胞焦亡。此外,最近的研究表明,炎症小体还可以招募起始凋亡的前半胱天冬酶-8。诱导多种细胞死亡途径的发生可能是为了对抗微生物逃避细胞死亡途径。