A hierarchical GBP network promotes cytosolic LPS recognition and sepsis
MacMicking, J. D.; Park, E.; Kim, B.; Kumar, P.; Tretina, K.; Maminska, A.; Philbrick, W. M.; Flavell, R.
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Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most bioactive substances known. Trace amounts trigger robust immunity to infection but also life-threatening sepsis causing millions of deaths each year. LPS contamination of the cytosol elicits a caspase-dependent inflammasome pathway promoting cytokine release and host cell death. Here, we report an immune GTPase network controls multiple steps in this pathway by genome-engineering mice to lack 7 different guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs). Gbp2-/- and Gbp3-/- mice had severe caspase-11-driven defects that protected them from septic shock. Gbp2 recruited caspase-11 for LPS recognition whereas Gbp3 assembled and trafficked the pyroptotic pore-forming protein, gasdermin D, after caspase-11 cleavage. Together, our results identify a new functional hierarchy wherein different GBPs choreograph sequential steps in the non-canonical inflammasome pathway to control Gram-negative sepsis. One-Sentence SummaryImmune GTPase network orchestrates hierarchical immunity to bacterial products in vivo
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