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Domblides C, Crampton S, Liu H, Bartleson JM, Nguyen A, Champagne C, Landy EE, Spiker L, Proffitt C, Bhattarai S, P Grawe A, Fuentealba Valenzuela M, Lartigue L, Mahouche I, Dupaul-Chicoine J, Nishimura K, Lefort F, Decraecker M, Velasco V, Netzer S, Pitard V, Roy C, Soubeyran I, Racine V, Blanco P, Déchanet-Merville J, Saleh M, Canna SW, Furman D, Faustin B. Human NLRC4 promotes cancer survival and is associated to type-I interferon signaling and immune infiltration. J Clin Invest 2024:e166085. [PMID: 38652550 DOI: 10.1172/jci166085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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The immune system can control cancer progression. However, even though some innate immune sensors of cellular stress are expressed intrinsically in epithelial cells, their potential role in cancer aggressiveness and subsequent overall survival in humans is mainly unknown. Here, we show that NLR family CARD Domain Containing 4 (NLRC4) is downregulated in epithelial tumor cells of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients by using spatial tissue imaging. Strikingly, only the loss of tumor NLRC4 but not stromal is associated with poor immune infiltration (mainly dendritic and CD4+/CD8+ T cells) and accurately predicts progression to metastatic Stage IV and decrease of overall survival. By combining multi-omics approaches, we show that restoring NLRC4 expression in human colorectal cancer cells triggers a broad inflammasome-independent immune reprogramming consisting of Type-I IFN signaling genes and the release of chemokines and myeloid growth factors involved in the tumor infiltration and activation of dendritic cells (DCs) and T cells. Consistently, such reprogramming in cancer cells is sufficient to directly mature human DCs towards a Th1 antitumor immune response through IL-12 production in vitro. In multiple human carcinomas (colorectal, lung, and skin), we confirmed that NLRC4 expression in patient tumors is strongly associated with Type-I IFN genes, immune infiltrates and high microsatellite instability. Thus, we shed light on the epithelial innate immune sensor NLRC4 as a novel therapeutic target to promote an efficient antitumor immune response against the aggressiveness of various carcinomas.
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- Immunology Discovery, Janssen Research and Development, San Diego, United States of America
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- Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, United States of America
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- Immunology Discovery, Janssen Research and Development, San Diego, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, United States of America
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- Immunology Discovery, Janssen Research and Development, San Diego, United States of America
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, United States of America
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- ImmunoConcEpt, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Biopathology, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
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- Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, United States of America
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- INRS Santé Biotechnologie, Laval, Canada
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- Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, United States of America
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Dagenais M, Dupaul-Chicoine J, Douglas T, Champagne C, Morizot A, Saleh M. The Interleukin (IL)-1R1 pathway is a critical negative regulator of PyMT-mediated mammary tumorigenesis and pulmonary metastasis. Oncoimmunology 2017; 6:e1287247. [PMID: 28405519 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2017.1287247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Revised: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and the second leading cause of female cancer-related deaths worldwide. Inflammation is an established hallmark of tumorigenesis and an important determinant of tumor outcome and response to therapy. With advances in cancer immunotherapy, there is an urgent need to dissect the contribution of specific immune effectors in cancer development. Here, we genetically investigated the role of the Interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptor 1 (IL-1R1) pathway in breast cancer tumorigenesis and metastasis using the MMTV-PyMT mouse model. Our results indicate that IL-1R1 signaling suppresses mammary tumor cell proliferation early in tumorigenesis and curbs breast cancer outgrowth and pulmonary metastasis. We show that PyMT/Il1r1-/- mice had a higher primary tumor burden and increased mortality rate compared with IL-1R1-sufficient PyMT control mice. This phenotype was independent of the inflammatory caspases-1/-11 but driven by IL-1α, as PyMT/Il1a-/- mice phenocopied PyMT/Il1r1-/- mice. Collectively, our results suggest that IL-1α-mediated IL-1R1 signaling is tumor-suppressive in PyMT-driven breast cancer.
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- Maryse Dagenais
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University , Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University , Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University , Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University , Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Arabzadeh A, Dupaul-Chicoine J, Breton V, Haftchenary S, Yumeen S, Turbide C, Saleh M, McGregor K, Greenwood CMT, Akavia UD, Blumberg RS, Gunning PT, Beauchemin N. Carcinoembryonic Antigen Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 long isoform modulates malignancy of poorly differentiated colon cancer cells. Gut 2016; 65:821-9. [PMID: 25666195 PMCID: PMC4826327 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2014-308781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Nearly 20%-29% of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) succumb to liver or lung metastasis and there is a dire need for novel targets to improve the survival of patients with metastasis. The long isoform of the Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 (CEACAM1-L or CC1-L) is a key regulator of immune surveillance in primary CRC, but its role in metastasis remains largely unexplored. We have examined how CC1-L expression impacts on colon cancer liver metastasis. DESIGN Murine MC38 transfected with CC1-L were evaluated in vitro for proliferation, migration and invasion, and for in vivo experimental liver metastasis. Using shRNA silencing or pharmacological inhibition, we delineated the role in liver metastasis of Chemokine (C-C motif) Ligand 2 (CCL2) and Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) downstream of CC1-L. We further assessed the clinical relevance of these findings in a cohort of patients with CRC. RESULTS MC38-CC1-L-expressing cells exhibited significantly reduced in vivo liver metastasis and displayed decreased CCL2 chemokine secretion and reduced STAT3 activity. Down-modulation of CCL2 expression and pharmacological inhibition of STAT3 activity in MC38 cells led to reduced cell invasion capacity and decreased liver metastasis. The clinical relevance of our findings is illustrated by the fact that high CC1 expression in patients with CRC combined with some inflammation-regulated and STAT3-regulated genes correlate with improved 10-year survival. CONCLUSIONS CC1-L regulates inflammation and STAT3 signalling and contributes to the maintenance of a less-invasive CRC metastatic phenotype of poorly differentiated carcinomas.
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- Azadeh Arabzadeh
- Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Complex Trait Group, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Dupaul-Chicoine J, Arabzadeh A, Dagenais M, Douglas T, Champagne C, Morizot A, Rodrigue-Gervais I, Breton V, Colpitts S, Beauchemin N, Saleh M. The Nlrp3 Inflammasome Suppresses Colorectal Cancer Metastatic Growth in the Liver by Promoting Natural Killer Cell Tumoricidal Activity. Immunity 2015; 43:751-63. [DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2014] [Revised: 05/07/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Rodrigue-Gervais IG, Labbé K, Dagenais M, Dupaul-Chicoine J, Champagne C, Morizot A, Skeldon A, Brincks EL, Vidal SM, Griffith TS, Saleh M. Cellular inhibitor of apoptosis protein cIAP2 protects against pulmonary tissue necrosis during influenza virus infection to promote host survival. Cell Host Microbe 2014; 15:23-35. [PMID: 24439895 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2013.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2013] [Revised: 11/10/2013] [Accepted: 12/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Cellular inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (cIAPs) are essential regulators of cell death and immunity. The corresponding contributions of IAPs to infectious disease outcomes are relatively unexplored. We find that mice deficient in cIAP2 exhibit increased susceptibility and mortality to influenza A virus infection. The lethality was not due to impaired antiviral immune functions, but rather because of death-receptor-induced programmed necrosis of airway epithelial cells that led to severe bronchiole epithelial degeneration, despite control of viral replication. Pharmacological inhibition of RIPK1 or genetic deletion of Ripk3, both kinases involved in programmed necrosis, rescued cIAP2-deficient mice from influenza-induced lethality. Genetic deletion of the death receptor agonists Fas ligand or TRAIL from the hematopoietic compartment also reversed the susceptibility of cIAP2-deficient mice. Thus, cIAP2-dependent antagonism of RIPK3-mediated programmed necrosis critically protects the host from influenza infection through maintenance of pulmonary tissue homeostasis rather than through pathogen control by the immune system.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Urology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Urology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada.
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Caignard G, Leiva-Torres GA, Leney-Greene M, Charbonneau B, Dumaine A, Fodil-Cornu N, Pyzik M, Cingolani P, Schwartzentruber J, Dupaul-Chicoine J, Guo H, Saleh M, Veillette A, Lathrop M, Blanchette M, Majewski J, Pearson A, Vidal SM. Genome-wide mouse mutagenesis reveals CD45-mediated T cell function as critical in protective immunity to HSV-1. PLoS Pathog 2013; 9:e1003637. [PMID: 24068938 PMCID: PMC3771889 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is a lethal neurological disease resulting from infection with Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1). Loss-of-function mutations in the UNC93B1, TLR3, TRIF, TRAF3, and TBK1 genes have been associated with a human genetic predisposition to HSE, demonstrating the UNC93B-TLR3-type I IFN pathway as critical in protective immunity to HSV-1. However, the TLR3, UNC93B1, and TRIF mutations exhibit incomplete penetrance and represent only a minority of HSE cases, perhaps reflecting the effects of additional host genetic factors. In order to identify new host genes, proteins and signaling pathways involved in HSV-1 and HSE susceptibility, we have implemented the first genome-wide mutagenesis screen in an in vivo HSV-1 infectious model. One pedigree (named P43) segregated a susceptible trait with a fully penetrant phenotype. Genetic mapping and whole exome sequencing led to the identification of the causative nonsense mutation L3X in the Receptor-type tyrosine-protein phosphatase C gene (Ptprc(L3X)), which encodes for the tyrosine phosphatase CD45. Expression of MCP1, IL-6, MMP3, MMP8, and the ICP4 viral gene were significantly increased in the brain stems of infected Ptprc(L3X) mice accounting for hyper-inflammation and pathological damages caused by viral replication. Ptprc(L3X) mutation drastically affects the early stages of thymocytes development but also the final stage of B cell maturation. Transfer of total splenocytes from heterozygous littermates into Ptprc(L3X) mice resulted in a complete HSV-1 protective effect. Furthermore, T cells were the only cell population to fully restore resistance to HSV-1 in the mutants, an effect that required both the CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cells and could be attributed to function of CD4⁺ T helper 1 (Th1) cells in CD8⁺ T cell recruitment to the site of infection. Altogether, these results revealed the CD45-mediated T cell function as potentially critical for infection and viral spread to the brain, and also for subsequent HSE development.
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- Grégory Caignard
- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Clinical Research Institute of Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Clinical Research Institute of Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Université du Québec, Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Dupaul-Chicoine J, Dagenais M, Saleh M. Crosstalk between the intestinal microbiota and the innate immune system in intestinal homeostasis and inflammatory bowel disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2013. [PMID: 23669404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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: Inflammatory bowel diseases are a set of complex and chronic disorders that arise in genetically predisposed individuals due to a lack of tolerance to the gut microflora. Although the intestinal microbiota is required for the proper development of the host and the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis, its dysbiosis is associated with inflammatory bowel diseases pathogenesis. In this review, we focus the discussion on the crosstalk between the innate immune system and the microbiota. We examine new findings from genetic and functional studies investigating the critical role of the intestinal epithelial cell layer and the processes that maintain its integrity in health and disease. We further explore the mechanisms of the mucosal innate immune system including dendritic cells, macrophages, and innate-like lymphocytes in mediating immunological tolerance at the steady state or pathogenic inflammatory responses in inflammatory bowel diseases.
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Dagenais M, Dupaul-Chicoine J, Saleh M. Function of NOD-like receptors in immunity and disease. Curr Opin Investig Drugs 2010; 11:1246-1255. [PMID: 21157644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) are cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors that sense microbial invasion, cell stress and physiological perturbations, and elicit an inflammatory response to alert the system to the presence of danger. Most NLRs exert their functions by assembling inflammasomes that recruit and activate caspase-1, whereas a few engage the NFκB and MAPK pathways. In the past few years, significant insights have been gained into the regulatory mechanisms of these innate immunity effectors and their role in health and disease that, notably, have led to direct therapeutic applications in the clinic. This review discusses the biology of NLRs, focusing on recent advances in the field that indicate a broader role for these proteins than had been previously anticipated, such as in priming systemic innate immunity, driving adaptive immunity, maintaining tissue homeostasis and inducing tissue repair following injury.
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- Maryse Dagenais
- McGill University, Department of Biochemistry, 3775 University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
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Dupaul-Chicoine J, Yeretssian G, Doiron K, Bergstrom KSB, McIntire CR, LeBlanc PM, Meunier C, Turbide C, Gros P, Beauchemin N, Vallance BA, Saleh M. Control of intestinal homeostasis, colitis, and colitis-associated colorectal cancer by the inflammatory caspases. Immunity 2010; 32:367-78. [PMID: 20226691 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2010.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 404] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2009] [Revised: 11/09/2009] [Accepted: 12/31/2009] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Inflammatory caspases are essential effectors of inflammation and cell death. Here, we investigated their roles in colitis and colorectal cancer and report a bimodal regulation of intestinal homeostasis, inflammation and tumorigenesis by caspases-1 and -12. Casp1(-/-) mice exhibited defects in mucosal tissue repair and succumbed rapidly after dextran sulfate sodium administration. This phenotype was rescued by administration of exogenous interleukin-18 and was partially reproduced in mice deficient in the inflammasome adaptor ASC. Casp12(-/-) mice, in which the inflammasome is derepressed, were resistant to acute colitis and showed signs of enhanced repair. Together with their increased inflammatory response, the enhanced repair response of Casp12(-/-) mice rendered them more susceptible to colorectal cancer induced by azoxymethane (AOM)+DSS. Taken together, our results indicate that the inflammatory caspases are critical in the induction of inflammation in the gut after injury, which is necessary for tissue repair and maintenance of immune tolerance.
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