Tingting Niu, Charlotte De Rosny, Séverine Chautard, Amaury Rey, Danish Patoli, Marine Groslambert, Camille Cosson, Brice Lagrange, Zhirong Zhang, Orane Visvikis, Sabine Hacot, Maggy Hologne, Olivier Walker, Jeimin Wong, Ping Wang, Roméo Ricci, Thomas Henry, Laurent Boyer, Virginie Petrilli, Bénédicte F Py
NLRP3 controls the secretion of inflammatory cytokines IL-1β/18 and pyroptosis by assembling the inflammasome. Upon coordinated priming and activation stimuli, NLRP3 recruits NEK7 within hetero-oligomers that nucleate ASC and caspase-1 filaments, but the apical molecular mechanisms underlying inflammasome assembly remain elusive. Here we show that NEK7 recruitment to NLRP3 is controlled by the phosphorylation status of NLRP3 S803 located within the interaction surface, in which NLRP3 S803 is phosphorylated upon priming and later dephosphorylated upon activation...
October 6, 2021: Nature Communications