Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, UMR9020-U1277-CANTHER-Cancer Heterogeneity Plasticity and Resistance to Therapies, Lille, France.
Univ. Lille, CNRS, USR 3290-MSAP-Miniaturization for Synthesis, Analysis & Proteomics, Lille, France.
PLoS One. 2023 Jan 20;18(1):e0279028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279028. eCollection 2023.
Nod-Like Receptor Pyrin domain-containing protein 6 (NLRP6), a member of the Nucleotide-oligomerization domain-Like Receptor (NLR) family of proteins, assembles together with the ASC protein to form an inflammasome upon stimulation by bacterial lipoteichoic acid and double-stranded DNA. Besides its expression in myeloid cells, NLRP6 is also expressed in intestinal epithelial cells where it may contribute to the maintenance of gut homeostasis and negatively controls colorectal tumorigenesis. Here, we report that NLRP6 is very faintly expressed in several colon cancer cell lines, detected only in cytoplasmic small dots were it colocalizes with ASC. Consequently, it is very hardly detected by standard western-blotting techniques by several presently available commercial antibodies which, in contrast, highly cross-react with a protein of 90kDa that we demonstrate to be unrelated to NLRP6. We report here these results to caution the community not to confuse the 90kDa protein with the endogenous human NLRP6.
核苷酸结合寡聚化结构域样受体热蛋白结构域相关蛋白 6(NLRP6)是核苷酸结合寡聚化结构域样受体(NLR)家族蛋白的成员之一,在受到细菌脂磷壁酸和双链 DNA 的刺激时,与 ASC 蛋白一起组装成炎性体。除了在髓样细胞中表达外,NLRP6 也在肠道上皮细胞中表达,它可能有助于维持肠道内稳态,并负向调控结直肠肿瘤发生。在这里,我们报告说,NLRP6 在几种结肠癌细胞系中表达微弱,仅在细胞质中的小点中检测到,与 ASC 共定位。因此,目前几种市售的商业抗体通过标准的 Western-blotting 技术很难检测到它,而这些抗体则与我们证明与 NLRP6 无关的 90kDa 蛋白高度交叉反应。我们在此报告这些结果,以提醒大家不要将 90kDa 蛋白与内源性人类 NLRP6 混淆。