ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
A promiscuous inflammasome sparks replication of a common tumor virus.
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Abstract
Viruses activate inflammasomes but then subvert resulting inflammatory responses to avoid elimination. We asked whether viruses could instead use such activated or primed inflammasomes to directly aid their propagation and spread. Since herpesviruses are experts at coopting cellular functions, we investigated whether Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), an oncoherpesvirus, exploits inflammasomes to activate its replicative or lytic phase. Indeed, our experiments reveal that EBV exploits several inflammasome sensors to actually activate its replicative phase from quiescence/latency. In particular, TXNIP, a key inflammasome intermediary, causes assembly of the NLRP3 inflammasome, resulting in caspase-1-mediated depletion of the heterochromatin-inducing epigenetic repressor KAP1/TRIM28 in a subpopulation of cells. As a result, only TXNIP
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