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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M610762200 on May 9, 2007

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 26, 18810-18818, June 29, 2007
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Differential Requirement of P2X7 Receptor and Intracellular K+ for Caspase-1 Activation Induced by Intracellular and Extracellular Bacteria*

Luigi Franchi{ddagger}1, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti{ddagger}, George R. Dubyak§, and Gabriel Núñez{ddagger}2

From the {ddagger}Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and the §Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Received for publication, November 20, 2006 , and in revised form, April 5, 2007.


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Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in host defense and inflammatory diseases. The maturation and secretion of IL-1beta are mediated by caspase-1, a protease that processes pro-IL-1beta into biologically active IL-1beta. The activity of caspase-1 is controlled by the inflammasome, a multiprotein complex formed by NLR proteins and the adaptor ASC, that induces the activation of caspase-1. The current model proposes that changes in the intracellular concentration of K+ potentiate caspase-1 activation induced by the recognition of bacterial products. However, the roles of P2X7 receptor and intracellular K+ in IL-1beta secretion induced by bacterial infection remain unknown. Here we show that, in response to Toll-like receptor agonists such as lipopolysaccharide or infection with extracellular bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, efficient caspase-1 activation is only triggered by addition of ATP, a signal that promotes caspase-1 activation through depletion of intracellular K+ caused by stimulation of the purinergic P2X7 receptor. In contrast, activation of caspase-1 that relies on cytosolic sensing of flagellin or intracellular bacteria did not require ATP stimulation or depletion of cytoplasmic K+. Consistently, caspase-1 activation induced by intracellular Salmonella or Listeria was unimpaired in macrophages deficient in P2X7 receptor. These results indicate that, unlike caspase-1 induced by Toll-like receptor agonists and ATP, activation of the inflammasome by intracellular bacteria and cytosolic flagellin proceeds normally in the absence of P2X7 receptor-mediated cytoplasmic K+ perturbations.


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Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta)3 is a key mediator of host immune responses and plays an important role in inflammatory disease, fever, and septic shock (1). The production of IL-1beta is tightly controlled to prevent harmful effects induced by aberrant activation of IL-1 receptor signaling pathways (2, 3). In response to various pro-inflammatory stimuli, IL-1beta is produced by monocytes and macrophages as an inactive cytoplasmic precursor (pro-IL-1beta) that is processed into the biologically active IL-1beta molecule by caspase-1 (4–7). The protease caspase-1 is constitutively expressed as an inactive zymogen that becomes activated by self-cleavage at specific aspartic residues to generate an enzymatically active heterodimer composed of two p20 and p10 chains (8). Recent studies have implicated members of the NOD-like receptor (NLR) family of proteins in the regulation of caspase-1 activation (9, 10). For example, Ipaf, an NLR family member, and the adaptor ASC have been implicated in activation of caspase-1 in response to Salmonella (11). ASC is critical for caspase-1 activation and secretion of IL-1beta and IL-18 in response to several purified microbial components, including LPS as well as multiple intracellular bacteria (11–13). In contrast, Ipaf was found to be essential for the control of caspase-1 activation in response to Salmonella or Legionella infection, but dispensable for that induced by the intracellular pathogen Franciscella tularensis and several TLR agonists, including LPS, bacterial lipopeptide, and peptidoglycan (14–17). Mutant analyses of intracellular bacteria including Salmonella, Listeria, and Franciscella revealed that the presence of bacteria or bacterial molecules in the host cytosol is critical for the activation caspase-1 (14–16, 18). Furthermore, a nonpathogenic Escherichia coli strain engineered to escape the phagosome by expressing Listeria LLO (19, 20) could induce IL-1beta secretion (15). In addition, caspase-1 activation in response to Salmonella occurs in macrophages that are insensitive to TLR signaling (15). Recent studies have revealed that intracellular flagellin is sensed by Ipaf independently of TLR5 and MyD88 to mediate Ipaf-mediated caspase-1 in response to Salmonella and Legionella (14–16). These studies indicate that TLR-independent cytosolic recognition of bacteria is critical for caspase-1 activation in response to intracellular bacteria.

In mouse macrophages, induction of IL-1beta secretion by TLR agonists, including LPS, is very inefficient in the absence of a secondary signal that is provided by extracellular ATP (21–25). In vitro stimulation of macrophages with millimolar ATP activates the P2X7 receptor (P2X7R), an ATP-gated cation channel that upon activation induces rapid collapse of ionic gradients by promoting efflux of K+ (26–28). Several studies have suggested that depletion of intracellular K+ is essential for caspase-1 activation and IL-1beta secretion in response to several TLR agonists, including LPS (2, 28). Consistent with this, stimuli other than ATP such as the K+/H+ ionophore nigericin, hypotonicity, staphylococcal-{alpha}-toxin, and protegrins that cause rapid lowering of cytoplasmic K+ concentration also induce potent IL-1beta secretion in LPS-primed macrophages (21, 25, 28–31). In LPS-stimulated macrophages, low K+ concentration promotes the formation of the inflammasome and caspase-1 activation in cell-free systems (32). Furthermore, incubation of tumor cell lines with purified aerolysin, a pore-forming toxin secreted by Aeromonas species, induces a decrease in cytoplasmic K+ and formation of the inflammasome (33). However, the importance of intracellular K+ in caspase-1 activation and IL-1beta secretion induced by infection with bacteria remains unknown. In addition, the relevance of ATP-mediated activity remains controversial because non-physiological concentrations of ATP are required for caspase-1 activation and enhanced IL-1beta secretion (34, 35). In the present report, we have studied the role of cytoplasmic K+ and the P2X7R in the induction of caspase-1 activation in macrophages infected with intracellular and extracellular bacteria.


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Mice and Cells—Mice deficient in Ipaf, ASC, cryopyrin, or P2X7R have been previously described (13, 15, 27, 36). Mice were housed in a pathogen-free facility. Bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) were isolated as previously described (37). Briefly, femurs and tibia were removed from the euthanized mouse and briefly sterilized in 70% ethanol. IMDM was used to wash out the marrow cavity plugs, and bone marrow cells were resuspended in L-cell-conditioned medium containing macrophage-colony stimulating factor to stimulate proliferation and differentiation of the marrow progenitors into macrophages. After 5–6 days, the resulting BMDMs were replated and used within 2 days. The animal studies were conducted under approved protocols by the University of Michigan Committee on Use and Care of Animals.

Reagents and Bacterial Infection—ATP was from Sigma. Ultrapure E. coli LPS was from InvivoGen. In an experiment with ligands, LPS from Salmonella typhimurium (Sigma) was used with superimposable results. Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium strain SL1344 and the isogenic orgA mutant strain BJ66 (SipB-) were a gift of D. Monack, Stanford University, and the isogenic fliC-fljB-mutant was a gift of A. Aderem, University of Washington. The bacteria were grown as previously described (15). Bacteria were diluted to the desired concentration in IMDM plus 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum and used to infect macrophages at different bacterial/macrophage ratios. After 30-min infection at 37 °C, the macrophages were washed twice with phosphate-buffered saline, and IMDM containing 100 µg/ml gentamycin was added to limit the growth of extracellular bacteria. In the experiment with flagella mutants, Salmonella were spun onto the cells at 1000 rpm to ensure a similar uptake in the absence of motility. E. coli strain was DH5{alpha} (Invitrogen), and S. aureus was strain SA113 (ATCC). Listeria wild-type strain, 10403S, and mutant Listeria containing an in-frame deletion of the hly gene (listeriolysin O (LLO) and DP-L2161) were a gift of M. O'Riordan, the University of Michigan. Single colonies were inoculated into 3 ml of brain/heart infusion medium and grown overnight at 300 °C with shaking. On the day of the infection, a 1/10 dilution of the overnight culture was prepared and allowed to grow at 37 °C with shaking to A600 = 0.5, which corresponds to ~109 CFU/ml. After 60-min infection at 37 °C, the macrophages were washed twice with phosphate-buffered saline, and IMDM containing 100 µg/ml gentamycin was added to limit the growth of extracellular bacteria.

Intracellular K+ Concentration—Macrophages were seeded at 1 x 106 cells per well of a 12-well dish the day before the experiment. The day of the experiment cells were washed once with phosphate-buffered saline before stimulation or infection. At the indicated time point, the medium was removed, and the cells were lysed in 1 ml of 10% nitric acid. The intracellular K+ content was quantified using atomic absorbance spectroscopy and compared with standards.

Immunoblotting—Cells were lysed together with the cell supernatant by the addition of 1% Nonidet P-40, complete protease inhibitor mixture (Roche Applied Science, Mannheim, Germany) and 2 mM dithiothreitol. Clarified lysates were resolved by SDS-PAGE and transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes by electro-blotting. The rabbit anti-mouse-caspase 1 was a kind gift from Dr. Vandanabeele (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium). Anti-IL-1beta was from R & D Systems, Minneapolis, MN.

Stimulation of Macrophages with Liposome—DOTAP cationic lipid was purchased from Roche Applied Science and used according to the manufacturer's instructions. Briefly, 50 µl of DOTAP cationic lipid was incubated for 30 min in serum-free media with 4 µg of purified flagellin (InvivoGen) in a final volume of 500 µl. After the incubation, 1.5 ml of serum-free media was added, and 1 ml was used to stimulate 2 x 106 macrophages seeded in 6-well plates for 3–5 h.

Measurements of Cytokine—Mouse cytokines were measured in culture supernatants with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits (R & D Systems, Minneapolis, MN).


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Cytosolic Flagellin, but Not LPS, Induces Activation of Caspase-1 in the Absence of ATP Stimulation—To determine the role of ATP in activation of the Ipaf inflammasome, we assessed the requirement of ATP stimulation for activation of caspase-1 induced by cytosolic flagellin, a signal that mediates Ipaf-dependent caspase-1 activation and compared the response to that induced by LPS. In these experiments bone marrow-derived macrophages were incubated with various concentrations of LPS, followed by a short stimulation with 5 mM ATP or left untreated, and caspase-1 processing was determined by immunoblotting. In control experiments, treatment with ATP was required for effective caspase-1 activation in macrophages pre-stimulated with LPS (Fig. 1A). To assess if stimulation with cytosolic flagellin requires ATP for caspase-1 activation, we used macrophages deficient in TLR5 to avoid activation of TLR5 by flagellin. Notably, incubation of macrophages with purified flagellin, in the presence of cationic lipid to deliver flagellin to the cytosol, induced caspase-1 activation in the absence of ATP stimulation (Fig. 1B). Thus, unlike LPS, stimulation with cytosolic flagellin does not require ATP to induce effective caspase-1 activation in macrophages.


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  		FIGURE 1.
Cytosolic flagellin, but not LPS, induces activation of caspase-1 in the absence of ATP stimulation. a, wild-type macrophages were primed for 4 h with LPS and stimulated with ATP (5 mM) at the indicated macrophage/bacterial ratio. b, TLR5-KO macrophages were stimulated with flagellin (1 µg/ml), DOTAP, or with DOTAP (25 µg/ml) plus flagellin (1 µg/ml) for 4 h, and then the macrophages were stimulated or not with ATP (5 mM). c, wild-type macrophages were primed, or not, for 4 h with LPS and infected with Salmonella or the fliC-fljB- Salmonella mutant for the indicated time points. a–c, extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. Results are representative of at least three separate experiments.

 


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  		FIGURE 2.
Extracellular bacteria do not induce caspase-1 activation in the absence of ATP stimulation. Wild-type macrophages were infected with S. aureus or E. coli at a macrophage/bacterial ratio of 1:10 at the indicated time points. After infection macrophages were stimulated or not with ATP (5 mM). Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody (a) or IL-1beta antibody (b). Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit (a) and pro-IL-1beta and mature IL-1beta (b). Results are representative of at least three separate experiments.

 
Salmonella, but Not E. coli or S. aureus, Induces Caspase-1 Activation in the Absence of ATP Stimulation—Exposure of macrophages to Salmonella, an intracellular bacterium, induces rapid activation of caspase-1 in the absence of exogenous ATP (11, 12). To test whether LPS stimulation enhances caspase-1 activation in response to Salmonella, we compared the activation of caspase-1 in naïve macrophages or macrophages pre-stimulated with LPS. We found similar levels and kinetics of caspase-1 activation in naïve and LPS-stimulated macrophages in response to Salmonella infection (Fig. 1, C and D). Furthermore, the processing of caspase-1 was abolished by infection with a Salmonella mutant lacking flagellin in both naïve and LPS-stimulated macrophages (Fig. 1C), indicating that flagellin was required for caspase-1 activation for both non- and LPS-stimulated macrophages. Extracellular bacteria such as E. coli and S. aureus express several pathogen-associated molecular patterns that like LPS stimulate macrophages via TLRs to promote caspase-1 activation. We therefore determined the ability of these extracellular bacteria to activate caspase-1 in the presence and absence of ATP stimulation. Unlike Salmonella, pre-stimulation of macrophages with E. coli or S. aureus did not induce the processing of caspase-1 in the absence of ATP stimulation (Fig. 2A). Notably, as was observed with LPS, pre-stimulation with E. coli or S. aureus induced caspase-1 processing only after stimulation with ATP (Fig. 2A). The processing of caspase-1 was associated with cleavage of pro-IL-1beta into mature IL-1beta in macrophage extracts stimulated with both extracellular bacteria and then ATP (Fig. 2B). These results indicate that Salmonella, but not extracellular bacteria, induces caspase-1 activation in the absence of ATP stimulation.

Flagellin Stimulation in the Cytosol of Ipaf-induced Caspase-1 Activation Does Not Require Low Intracellular K+ Concentration—The expression of flagellin is required for Salmonella to induce caspase-1 activation through Ipaf (15, 16). We tested next if caspase-1 activation induced by flagellin requires depletion of the intracellular K+, an event that appears to be important for LPS-induced caspase-1 activation (11, 12, 22, 23, 38). To test directly this possibility, we delivered purified flagellin, the Salmonella component recognized by Ipaf, to the macrophage cytosol to activate Ipaf and measured the concentration of K+ inside the cell as well as caspase-1 activation. Fig. 3A shows that flagellin, in the presence or absence of the cationic lipid, did not significantly reduce the intracellular K+ levels in both wild-type and Ipaf-deficient macrophages. Analysis of cell extracts revealed that flagellin in the presence of the cationic lipid induced caspase-1 activation as effectively as ATP in LPS-stimulated macrophages (Fig. 3B). The activation of caspase-1 triggered by ATP was abolished when the macrophages were incubated in high K+ medium in both wild-type and Ipaf-deficient cells (Fig. 3, B and C). In contrast, the activation of caspase-1 induced by cytosolic flagellin was dependent on Ipaf but was unaffected by the presence of high K+ concentration in the culture medium (Fig. 3, B and C). The different results obtained with LPS and flagellin were unrelated to the source of LPS in that identical results were obtained with LPS from E. coli and S. typhimurium (data not shown). These results indicate that caspase-1 activation induced through intracellular flagellin and Ipaf, unlike that mediated by ATP in LPS-primed macrophages, is independent of K+ depletion in the host cytosol.


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  		FIGURE 3.
Cytosolic flagellin-induced caspase-1 activation does not require low intracellular K+ concentration. a, wild-type macrophages were stimulated with flagellin, DOTAP, or flagellin plus DOTAP for the indicated time points, and intracellular K+ was analyzed. Values represent mean ± S.D. of triplicate cultures. Results are representative of two separate experiments. b and c, wild-type (b) or Ipaf-KO (c) macrophages were cultured in medium with normal or high K+ concentration and stimulated with DOTAP plus flagellin for 3 h or primed with LPS for 3 h and stimulated with ATP for the last 30 min (LPS + ATP). Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with a caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. Results are representative of three separate experiments.

 


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  		FIGURE 4.
ASC functions independently of intracellular K+ to regulate caspase-1 activation. a, wild-type or ASC-KO macrophages were primed with LPS for 4 h, stimulated or not with ATP (5 mM) for 30 min, and then intracellular K+ was analyzed. Wild-type (b and d) or ASC-KO macrophages (c) were cultured in medium with normal (b and c) or high K+ concentration media (d). Macrophages were stimulated with flagellin (1 µg/ml), DOTAP, DOTAP (25 µg/ml) plus flagellin (1 µg/ml), or LPS for 5 h with ATP alone for the last 30 min (LPS + ATP) or ATP alone for 30 min. Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. Results are representative of three separate experiments.

 
ASC Functions Independently of Intracellular K+ Depletion to Regulate Caspase-1 Activation in Response to LPS plus ATP or Intracellular Flagellin—ASC is an adaptor protein that is required for caspase-1 activation induced by Salmonella and a variety of TLR agonists, including LPS (11–13, 17, 39). However, it remains unclear whether ASC controls caspase-1 activation induced by cytoplasmic flagellin or regulates this process by regulating intracellular K+. To determine whether ASC controls intracellular K+, we measured the intracellular K+ levels in wild-type and ASC-deficient macrophages primed with LPS. Stimulation of the macrophages with ATP induced depletion of cytoplasmic K+ levels in both wild-type and ASC-null macrophages (Fig. 4A). Thus, ASC does not regulate caspase-1 activation by controlling the levels of intracytoplasmic K+. In control experiments shown in Fig. 4C, caspase-1 processing induced by ATP in LPS-primed was abolished in ASC-deficient macrophages, which is consistent with previous results (11). Notably, the activation of caspase-1 induced by stimulation with cytosolic flagellin was also dependent on ASC (Fig. 4, B and C). Furthermore, caspase-1 activation elicited by intracellular flagellin was unimpaired when macrophages were incubated in high K+ medium, a setting in which caspase-1 activation mediated by LPS and ATP was blocked (Fig. 4D). Collectively, these results indicate that ASC is required for flagellin-induced Ipaf-mediated caspase-1 activation and that the function of ASC in the regulation of caspase-1 activation can proceed independently of low intracellular K+ concentration.


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Loss of intracellular K+ concentration is not required for Salmonella-induced caspase-1 activation. a, wild-type and Ipaf-KO macrophages were infected with wild-type Salmonella. b, wild-type macrophages were infected with wild-type Salmonella, flic-fljb-Salmonella, or SipB-Salmonella mutant at 1:10 macrophage/bacterial ratio or stimulated with ATP 5 mM. At the indicated time points, intracellular K+ was analyzed. c, wild-type macrophages were cultured in medium with normal or high K+ concentration and infected with Salmonella at a macrophage/bacterial ratio of 1:5. Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with a caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. d, wild-type macrophages were primed with LPS for 4 h. Macrophages cultured in medium with normal or high K+ concentration were infected with Salmonella at a bacterial/macrophage ratio of 1:10 for 3 h. Cell-free supernatants were analyzed by ELISA for production of IL-1beta. Values represent mean ± S.D. of triplicate cultures. a–d, results are representative of at least three separate experiments.

 
Loss of Intracellular K+ Concentration Is Not Required for Salmonella-induced Caspase-1 Activation—In LPS-primed macrophages, stimulation of the P2X7R with ATP induces a rapid K+ efflux and depletion of cytoplasmic K+ that has been shown to be important for caspase-1 activation and enhancement of IL-1beta secretion (28, 40). Furthermore, there is evidence that depletion of intracellular K+ concentration is important for caspase-1 activation induced by the inflammasome (32). To determine whether infection with Salmonella induces lowering of cytoplasmic K+, we measured the intracellular K+ levels in uninfected macrophages and at several times following Salmonella infection. There was no depletion of cytoplasmic K+ levels in wild-type and Ipaf-deficient macrophages after Salmonella infection (Fig. 5A). To verify these results, we compared cytoplasmic K+ levels in macrophages stimulated with wild-type Salmonella and mutant Salmonella lacking SipB or flagellin that are deficient in the induction of caspase-1 activation (15) or with LPS followed by short pulse with ATP. There was ~70% loss of intracellular K+ levels after stimulation with ATP, but the levels of intracellular K+ did not decrease after infection of macrophages with wild-type or mutant Salmonella (Fig. 5B). The depletion of cytoplasmic K+ levels was detected within 20 min and was maintained 60 min after ATP stimulation (Fig. 3B and data not depicted). Previous studies showed that incubation of macrophages in medium containing high K+ concentration prevents lowering of cytoplasmic K+ and IL-1beta secretion as well as caspase-1 activation induced by ATP in LPS-stimulated macrophages (28, 40). To further assess the requirement for intracellular K+ loss in caspase-1 activation induced by Salmonella, macrophages were infected with Salmonella in physiological medium or medium containing 20 mM KCl. Immunoblotting revealed that caspase-1 activation was unimpaired in macrophages infected in high K+ medium when compared with macrophages cultured in "low K+ medium" (Fig. 5C). Furthermore, IL-1beta secretion induced by Salmonella was similar in macrophages cultured in normal medium or medium containing high concentration of K+ (Fig. 5D). Collectively, these results indicate that caspase-1 activation and IL-1beta secretion induced by Salmonella are independent of alterations in intracellular K+ concentrations.

Caspase-1 Activation Induced by Listeria Does Not Require Depletion of Intracellular K+—To determine whether the results obtained with Salmonella could be extended to other intracellular bacteria, we studied the role of intracellular K+ in caspase-1 activation induced by Listeria monocytogenes. The activation of caspase-1 triggered by infection of macrophages with Listeria has been shown to be attenuated in the absence of cryopyrin (12). We therefore tested first if cryopyrin was required for caspase-1 activation under our experimental conditions. Unlike previous results, we found in multiple experiments that caspase-1 activation was unimpaired in cryopyrin-deficient macrophages when compared with wild-type macrophages (Fig. 6A). Consistent with these results, IL-1beta secretion induced by Listeria was similar in wild-type and cryopyrin-null macrophages (Fig. 6B). In addition, Listeria-induced caspase-1 activation was independent of Ipaf (Fig. 6C). To assess if Listeria induces changes in intracellular K+, we measured the intracellular K+ levels in macrophages before and after infection with the bacterium. As shown in Fig. 6C, there was no depletion of cytoplasmic K+ levels in macrophages infected with wild-type Listeria or a Listeria mutant lacking LLO, a factor required for cytosol invasion and caspase-1 activation (41). Furthermore, the levels of intracellular K+ were not altered by the absence of ASC in macrophages after Listeria infection (Fig. 6D). Previous studies showed that incubation of macrophages in medium containing high K+ concentration prevents lowering of cytoplasmic K+ and IL-1beta secretion as well as caspase-1 activation induced by ATP in LPS-stimulated macrophages (28, 40). To further assess the requirement for intracellular K+ loss in caspase-1 activation induced by Listeria, macrophages were infected with Listeria in physiological medium or medium containing high concentration of K+. Immunoblotting revealed that culture in high K+ medium abrogated caspase-1 activation induced by LPS and ATP stimulation, but it did not affect that elicited by Listeria infection (Fig. 6, E and F). These results indicate that caspase-1 activation induced by Listeria does not require lowering of intracellular K+ concentrations.


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Caspase-1 activation induced by Listeria does not require depletion of intracellular of K+ and is cryopyrin-independent. a, wild-type and cryopyrin-KO macrophages were infected with Listeria at 1:10 macrophage/bacterial ratio at the indicated time point. Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. b, wild-type and cryopyrin-KO macrophages were infected with Listeria at 1:5 macrophage/bacterial ratio for 16 h. Cell-free supernatants were analyzed by ELISA for production of IL-1beta. Values represent mean ± S.D. of triplicate cultures. Results are representative of three separate experiments. c, wild-type and Ipaf-KO macrophages were infected with Listeria at 1:10 macrophage/bacterial ratio at the indicated time points. Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. Upper panel: low exposure to show equal levels of procaspase-1 between the samples. Low panel: high exposure to reveal cleaved caspase-1 (p20) in Listeria-infected macrophages. d and e, wild-type (d) and ASC-KO (e) macrophages were infected with wild-type Listeria or the LLO- mutant at 1:10 macrophage/bacterial ratio. At the indicated time points intracellular K+ was analyzed. f and g, wild-type macrophages were cultured in media with normal (f) or high (g)K+ concentrations. Macrophages were infected with Listeria at a macrophage/bacterial ratio of 1:10 at the indicated time points or primed with LPS (1 µg/ml) for 4 h or primed with LPS for 4 h and stimulated with ATP (5 mM) for the last 30 min. Extracts were prepared from cells together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. Upper panel: low exposure to show equal levels of procaspase-1 between the samples. Low panel: high exposure to reveal cleaved caspase-1 (p20) in Listeria-infected macrophages. Results are representative of three separate experiments.

 
P2X7R Is Not Required for Caspase-1 Activation Induced by Salmonella or Listeria—To determine the requirement for the P2X7R in IL-1beta secretion induced by Salmonella, we infected macrophages from wild-type and P2X7-deficient mice with S. typhimurium at different macrophage-bacterial ratio and measured IL-1beta secretion 16 h after infection. We included in these experiments macrophages lacking Ipaf, an NLR protein that is required for Salmonella-induced caspase-1 activation, as controls. As expected, IL-1beta production in response to Salmonella was abolished in Ipaf-deficient macrophages (Fig. 7A). Notably, the secretion of IL-1beta was unimpaired in P2X7R-null macrophages when compared with wild-type macrophages (Fig. 7A). To determine if caspase-1 activation required the P2X7R, extracts from uninfected and Salmonella-infected macrophages were immunoblotted with an antibody that recognizes the p20 subunit of caspase-1. The analysis revealed that activation of caspase-1 induced by Salmonella infection was unaffected by P2X7R deficiency as determined by the processing of pro-caspase-1 (Fig. 7, B and C). In contrast, P2X7R was required for IL-1beta secretion induced by a short pulse with ATP in LPS-primed macrophages (Fig. 7D), which is consistent with previous results (28, 40, 42). Reciprocally, Ipaf was required for caspase-1 activation induced by cytosolic flagellin but not by that mediated by ATP in LPS-primed macrophages (Fig. 7E). These results demonstrate that the P2X7R is essential for ATP-mediated IL-1beta secretion in LPS-stimulated macrophages but dispensable for Ipaf-dependent IL-1beta production and caspase-1 activation induced by flagellin in the cytosol.


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P2X7R is not required for caspase-1 activation induced by Salmonella or Listeria. a, wild-type, Ipaf-KO, or P2X7-KO BMDMs were primed with LPS (1 µg/ml) and infected with Salmonella at the indicated macrophage/bacterial ratio. After 16 h cell-free supernatants were analyzed by ELISA for IL-1beta. Values represent mean ± S.D. of triplicate cultures. Results are representative of at least three separate experiments. b and c, wild-type or P2X7-KO BMDMs were infected with Salmonella or Listeria at the indicated time points. Extracts were prepared from cell together with culture supernatants at the indicated time points and immunoblotted with caspase-1 antibody. Arrows denote procaspase-1 and its processed p20 subunit. Upper panel: low exposure. Low panel: high exposure. Results are representative of at least three separate experiments. d, wild-type and P2X7-KO BMDMs were primed with LPS (1 µg/ml) and stimulated with ATP 5 mM for 30 min. Cell-free supernatants were analyzed by ELISA for production of IL-1beta. Values represent mean ± S.D. of triplicate cultures. Results are representative of at least three separate experiments. e, wild-type and Ipaf-KO BMDMs were primed with LPS (1 µg/ml) and stimulated with ATP 5 mM or with DOTAP (25 µg/ml) plus flagellin (1 µg/ml). Cell-free supernatants were analyzed by ELISA for production of IL-1beta. Values represent mean ± S.D. of triplicate cultures. Results are representative of at least three separate experiments.

 

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Our studies demonstrate a differential requirement for intracellular K+ in caspase-1 activation induced by intracellular bacteria versus stimulation via the endogenous P2X7R channel in macrophages primed with LPS. Efflux of intracellular K+ mediated by the P2X7R appears to be critical for secretion of high levels of IL-1beta and caspase-1 activation in LPS-primed macrophages in agreement with previous reports (28, 40, 42). In contrast, we found that both activation of caspase-1 and IL-1beta secretion induced by infection of macrophages with intracellular bacteria, including Salmonella and Listeria, are independent of the P2X7R and depletion of cytoplasmic K+ levels. Thus, the mechanism of caspase-1 activation triggered by intracellular bacteria is different from that induced via P2X7R. The latter functions in TLR-primed macrophages, including those stimulated with LPS and extracellular bacteria. Thus, caspase-1 activation mediated by extracellular ATP in macrophages stimulated with TLR agonists can be dissociated from those induced by intracellular bacteria based on the requirement of intracellular K+ and P2X7R activation.

We found that intracellular bacteria induce robust activation of caspase-1, whereas under our experimental conditions that induced by extracellular bacterial is undetectable in the absence of exogenous ATP. Unlike extracellular bacteria, intracellular bacteria have evolved mechanisms to invade and survive inside infected cells. In the case of Salmonella, the bacterium relies on a type III secretion system that delivers effector proteins into the host cytosol for invasion and survival. Similarly, Listeria uses the pore-forming toxin LLO to escape from the vacuole into the host cytosol, an environment that is critical for survival and replication of the bacterium (43). Notably, functional type III secretion system and LLO are required for the activation of caspase-1 in macrophages infected with Salmonella and Listeria, respectively (13, 15). The lack of requirement of intracytoplasmic P2X7R and K+ depletion for caspase-1 activation induced by intracellular bacteria suggests that cytosolic sensing of these microbial agents is sufficient for NLR-mediated inflammasome activation. Consistent with this, delivery of purified flagellin to the macrophage cytosol induced Ipaf-dependent caspase-1 activation, which was independent of intracytoplasmic K+ efflux and unaffected by incubation in medium containing high concentration K+. Thus, the activation of caspase-1 by purified flagellin in the cytosol resembles that induced by live Salmonella. Gurcel et al. (33) found that incubation of HeLa cells with purified Aeromonas aerolysin, a poreforming toxin that induces cytoplasmic K+ efflux, mediates caspase-1 activation, a process that required Ipaf or Nalp3 in combination with ASC. These authors suggested that efflux of cytoplasmic K2+ mediated by aerolysin is important for the activation of caspase-1 via the inflammasome (33). It is difficult to compare the results from the two studies given that the experimental systems used to study caspase-1 activation are different; i.e., we used primary macrophages infected with infectious bacteria, whereas Gurcel et al. employed tumor epithelial cells stimulated with purified bacterial toxin. Together, our results indicate that microbial proteins such as flagellin can "substitute" for the inflammasome assembly signal provided by the loss of K+ in the cytosol. Although we found no role for depletion of K+ in caspase-1 activation induced by intracellular bacteria, our results do not rule out that K+ could regulate inflammasome-dependent caspase-1 activation. There is evidence that K+ inhibits the activity of the apoptosome, a inflammasome-like platform that controls Apaf-1-dependent caspase-9 activation (43). Given the striking molecular homology between the inflammasome and apoptosome, it is possible that intracytoplasmic K+ could play a role in preventing inappropriate caspase-1 activation in the absence of pro-inflammatory stimuli. Consistent with this hypothesis, LPS-induced IL-1beta production in human monocytes is blocked by high concentration of K+ in the absence of ATP stimulation (38).

There are several mechanisms by which exposure of microbial components to the host cytosol may lead to the activation of caspase-1 through NLR proteins. In the case of Salmonella, flagellin might enter the cytosol through the needle complex formed by the Salmonella Type III secretion apparatus, through pores formed in the phagosome membrane or by escape of some bacteria into the cytosol (44, 45). A role for the secretion apparatus is suggested by the observation that Salmonella requires SipB, a translocase of the Type III secretion system, for the induction of caspase-1 and IL-1beta secretion (15, 16). Similarly, delivery of peptidoglycan-derived molecules to the host cytosol by the Helicobacter pylori type IV secretion system activates Nod1, another NLR family member (46). Thus, Ipaf may sense flagellin directly or through another host factor in the cytosol to promote the activation of caspase-1. This proposed mechanism is supported by the finding that purified flagellin delivered to the cytosol is sufficient for the induction of caspase-1 activation in wild-type, but not in Ipaf-KO macrophages (15, 16). Another possibility is that flagellin itself is not recognized, but the presence of flagellin induces a cellular response that is sensed by Ipaf. The NLR protein involved in caspase-1 induced by Listeria infection remains controversial. A previous study showed that the absence of cryopyrin reduced, but did not abolish, caspase-1 activation (12). In contrast, our studies have shown that both caspase-1 activation and IL-1beta secretion in response to Listeria infection are unimpaired in cryopyrin-deficient macrophages. Although both studies revealed that cryopyrin is not essential for Listeria-induced caspase-1 activation, there is not a clear explanation that may account for the differential contribution of cryopyrin to caspase-1 in both studies. It is possible that subtle differences in the experimental protocol and/or genetic background of the mice could account at least in part for the difference in results. Caspase-1 activation induced by Listeria requires cytosolic invasion of the bacterium as LLO– Listeria mutant are unable to trigger caspase-1 activation (13). Furthermore, the adaptor ASC is required for Listeria-induced caspase-1 activation. In contrast Ipaf is not required for Listeria-induced caspase-1 activation. Together these results suggest that Listeria activates caspase-1 through a mechanism that is independent of K+ efflux and ATP and relies on the adaptor ASC and a cytosolic NLR protein distinct from cryopyrin and Ipaf.

The physiological relevance of ATP-mediated caspase-1 activation is controversial given that the concentrations of ATP required for the induction of caspase-1 activation are in the millimolar range (34, 35). These high concentrations of ATP that are required for in vitro P2X7R activation and production of high levels of IL-1beta secretion are not found normally in the in vivo extracellular milieu, although they could perhaps be reached under certain situations in the context of cell lysis or injury (35). P2X7R knock-out mice are resistant to the development of anti-collagen-induced arthritis (27) and accumulate markedly reduced levels of IL-1beta within inflamed foot pads induced by local injection of Freund's complete adjuvant (47). This suggests that P2X7R can be activated by endogenous factors within in situ inflammatory loci. Other studies have reported that P2X7R in murine T cells can be activated in vitro (48) and in vivo (49) by an ATP-independent mechanism involving ADP ribosylation of the receptor in the presence of micromolar extracellular NAD. Activation of the P2X7R with ATP leads to the rapid opening of the ion channel selective for small ions, which is followed by gradual opening of a larger pore that allows passage of larger molecules up to 900 Da (34, 50). Recent studies have shown that the larger pore is mediated by pannexin-1, which is recruited upon P2X7R activation (51). Notably, pannexin-1 was found to be critical for caspase-1 activation and IL-1beta secretion in response to ATP stimulation and P2X7R activation (52). Further studies are needed to determine the mechanism and physiological role of the P2X7R via pannexin-1 in caspase-1 activation.


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* This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants AI063331, AR051790, and AI064748 (to G. N.) and GM36387 (to G. R. D.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. Back

1 Recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Arthritis Foundation. Back

2 To whom correspondence should be addressed: University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Tel.: 734-764-8514; Fax: 734-647-9654; E-mail: bclx{at}umich.ed.

3 The abbreviations used are: IL-1beta, interleukin-1beta; LPS, lipopolysaccharide; NLR, NOD-like receptor; P2X7R, P2X7 receptor; TLR, Toll-like receptor; IMDM, Iscove's modified Dulbecco's medium; BMDM, bone marrow-derived macrophage; DOTAP, N-[1-(2,3-dioleoyoxy)propyl]-N,N,N-trimethylammonium methylsulfate; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; LLO, listeriolysin O; KO, knock-out. Back


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We thank Anthony Coyle, Ethan Grant, and John Bertin (Millennium Pharmaceuticals), Pfizer, Satoshi Uematsu, and Shizuo Akira for generous supply of mutant mice, D. Monack and A. Aderem for bacterial strains, P. Vandenabeele for anti caspase-1 antibody, and Sylvia Kertesy for technical help.



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