Journal: Cell reports
Article Title: Gasdermin D mediates the maturation and release of IL-1α downstream of inflammasomes.
doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108887
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 5. GSDMD is involved in calpain activation (A and B) LPS-primed WT BMDMs were stimulated with nigericin for 0.5 or 1 h in Ca2+-containing media, HBSS(+) and HBSS() + CaCl2, or Ca2+-free media, HBSS() and HBSS() + MgCl2. Culture supernatants plus cell lysates were analyzed by western blot (A). Levels of IL-1a and IL-1b in culture supernatants were assessed by ELISA (B). (C) WT and Gsdmd/ BMDMs were transduced with the indicated short hairpin RNAs. The cells were primed with LPS and then stimulated with nigericin for 1 h. Culture supernatants plus cell lysates were analyzed by western blot. (D) A possible model of the processing of IL-1a and a-fodrin following inflammasome activation in the presence or absence of GSDMD. It is noteworthy that inflammasome activation leads to caspase-3 activation in GSDMD-deficient cells. (E) LPS-primed BMDMs were incubated with or without MDL-28170 (MDL), a calpain inhibitor, for 30 min and then stimulated with nigericin for 1 h. Calpain activity was determined using a proluminescent calpain substrate, and the results are expressed as relative light units (RLUs) per well. Graphs depict the means ± SDs of triplicate cultures, and individual data values are plotted (B and E). p values are determined using 1-way ANOVA with the Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. Data are from 1 representative of 3 biologically independent experiments with similar results (A–C and E). See also Figure S4.
Article Snippet: The membranes were blocked with Blocking One (Nacalai Tesque) for 1 h at room temperature, and then incubated overnight at 4 Cwith the following primary antibodies diluted in Immuno-enhancer Reagent A (Wako, 295-68614): cleaved Caspase-3 (#9661, 1:1000) from Cell Signaling Technology; mouse GSDMD (ab209845, 1:1000), mouse Caspase-1 (ab179515, 1:1000), Caspase-11 (ab180673, 1:1000), Calpain small subunit 1 (ab92333, 1:1000), a-fodrin (also known as NEAS) (ab75755, 1:1000) from Abcam; mouse IL-1a (AF-400-NA, 1:1000), mouse IL-1b (BAF401, 1:1000), human IL-1b (MAB201, 1:1000) from R&D Systems; human IL-1a (500-P21A, 1:1000) from PeproTech; human GSDMD (20770-1-AP, 1:1000) from Proteintech; human Caspase-1 (sc-515, 1:400) from Santa Cruz Biotechnology; and GAPDH (M171-3, 1:1000) from Medical & Biological Laboratories.
Techniques: Activation Assay, Western Blot, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Transduction, Incubation, Activity Assay