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    Production and mechanism of secretion of interleukin-1b from the marine fish gilthead seabream
    (2004) Elena, Chaves-Pozo; José, Meseguer; Mulero Méndez, Victoriano Francisco; Pelegrín Vivancos, Pablo; Bioquímica y Biología Molecular B e Inmunología
    Interleukin-1b (IL-1b) is a secretory cytokine lacking a signal peptide, and does not follow the classical endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi pathway of secretion. Its post-translational processing by IL-1b-converting enzyme (ICE) and subsequent release from activated macrophages requires ATP acting on P2X7 receptors. No information is available on the production and release of fish IL-1b, but the IL-1b gene sequences reported to date lack a conserved ICE recognition site. We show for the first time that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)/macrophage-activating factor (MAF)/bacterial DNA (VaDNA)-primed immune cells of fish accumulate intracellular IL-1b as a ~30 kDa polypeptide (proIL-1b). The combination of LPS and VaDNA was found to be synergistic, suggesting that each ligand is recognized by a different pattern recognition receptor (PRR). More importantly, addition of extracellular ATP does not promote IL-1b secretion by immune cells and fails to induce phosphatidylserine (PS) flip. In contrast, fish SAF-1 fibroblasts shed microvesicles containing a 22 kDa IL-1b form within 30 min of activation with ATP. Notably, the post-translational processing of IL-1b by SAF-1 cells is abrogated by a specific ICE inhibitor.
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    Cell volume regulation modulates NLRP3 inflammasome activation
    (Cell Press, 2012) Compan, Vincent; Baroja-Mazo, Alberto; Lopez-Castejón, Gloria; Gomez, Ana I.; Angosto, Diego; Montero, María T.; Herranz, Antonio S.; Bazán, Eulalia; Reimers, Diana; Martínez Cáceres, Carlos Manuel; Mulero Méndez, Victoriano Francisco; Pelegrín Vivancos, Pablo; Bioquímica y Biología Molecular B e Inmunología
    Cell volume regulation is a primitive response to alterations in environmental osmolarity. The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multiprotein complex that senses pathogen- and danger-associated signals. Here we report that the basic mechanisms of cell swelling and regulatory volume decrease (RVD) are sensed from fish to mammals by the NLRP3 inflammasome. We found that a decrease in extracellular osmolarity induced (i) a K+-dependent conformational change of the preassembled NLRP3-inactive inflammasome during cell swelling, followed by (ii) activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and caspase-1, which was controlled by Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels during RVD. Both mechanisms were necessary for interleukin-1b processing. Increased extracellular osmolarity prevented caspase-1 activation by different known NLRP3 activators. Collectively, our data place cell volume regulation as a basic conserved homeostatic mechanism associated with the formation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and provides a mechanism for NLRP3 inflammasome activation.
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