PMID- 35301258 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220414 LR - 20220918 IS - 2573-7732 (Electronic) IS - 2573-7732 (Linking) VI - 6 IP - 3 DP - 2022 Mar 17 TI - NLRC4 Deficiency Leads to Enhanced Phosphorylation of MLKL and Necroptosis. PG - 243-252 LID - 10.4049/immunohorizons.2100118 [doi] AB - Hosts rely on the innate immune system to clear pathogens in response to infection. Pathogen-associated molecular patterns bind to innate immune receptors and engage activation of downstream signaling to initiate a host immune response to fight infection. A key component of this innate response is programmed cell death. Recent work has highlighted significant cross-talk and functional redundancy between cell death pathways, leading to the discovery of PANoptosis, an inflammatory programmed cell death pathway dependent on PANoptosomes, which are innate immune danger-sensing complexes that activate inflammatory cell death and contain caspases with or without inflammasome components and receptor interacting protein homotypic interaction motif-containing proteins. Although PANoptosis has been characterized in response to a growing number of pathogens, inflammatory diseases, and cancer, its role and the functional consequences of PANoptotic component modulation during NLR family CARD domain-containing protein 4 (NLRC4) activation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection remain unknown. In this study, we show that P. aeruginosa can induce PANoptosis in mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs). Only the combined deletion of caspase-1, -11, -8, and RIPK3 protected mouse BMDMs from cell death. Moreover, we showed that PANoptotic components act in a compensatory manner; in the absence of NAIP5 and NLRC4 during P. aeruginosa challenge, activation of caspase-1, -3, -7, and -8 was reduced, whereas alternative cell death molecules such as RIPK1 and MLKL were activated in mouse BMDMs. Taken together, these data highlight the extensive cross-talk between cell death signaling molecules and showcase the plasticity of the system. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. FAU - Sundaram, Balamurugan AU - Sundaram B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1019-3681 AD - Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. FAU - Karki, Rajendra AU - Karki R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4436-9128 AD - Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. FAU - Kanneganti, Thirumala-Devi AU - Kanneganti TD AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6395-6443 AD - Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN devi.kanneganti@stjude.org. LA - eng GR - R35 CA253095/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI101935/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI124346/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 AI101935/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI160179/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AR056296/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220317 PL - United States TA - Immunohorizons JT - ImmunoHorizons JID - 101708159 RN - 0 (Inflammasomes) RN - 0 (Naip5 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Neuronal Apoptosis-Inhibitory Protein) RN - EC 2.7.- (MLKL protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.- (Protein Kinases) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Caspases/metabolism MH - Inflammasomes/metabolism MH - *Macrophages MH - Mice MH - *Necroptosis MH - Neuronal Apoptosis-Inhibitory Protein/metabolism MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein Kinases/genetics/metabolism PMC - PMC8996759 MID - NIHMS1791283 COIS- Competing financial interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. EDAT- 2022/03/19 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/15 06:00 PMCR- 2022/09/17 CRDT- 2022/03/18 05:40 PHST- 2022/01/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/03/18 05:40 [entrez] PHST- 2022/03/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/09/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - immunohorizons.2100118 [pii] AID - 10.4049/immunohorizons.2100118 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Immunohorizons. 2022 Mar 17;6(3):243-252. doi: 10.4049/immunohorizons.2100118.