ArticlePLoS biology2023
Host-specific sensing of coronaviruses and picornaviruses by the CARD8 inflammasome.
Article in PLoS biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.
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- Viral effectors trigger innate immunity across the tree of life.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- The coronavirus 3CL protease: Unveiling its complex host interactions and central role in viral pathogenesis.Virologica Sinica · 2025Review
- The non-structural protein of SFTSV activates NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasome through disrupting the DPP9-mediated ternary complex.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
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- Evolutionary and functional analyses reveal a role for the RHIM in tuning RIPK3 activity across vertebrates.eLife · 2025Article
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- Molecular mechanisms of emerging inflammasome complexes and their activation and signaling in inflammation and pyroptosis.Immunological reviews · 2025Review
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Abstract
Hosts have evolved diverse strategies to respond to microbial infections, including the detection of pathogen-encoded proteases by inflammasome-forming sensors such as NLRP1 and CARD8. Here, we find that the 3CL protease (3CLpro) encoded by diverse coronaviruses, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), cleaves a rapidly evolving region of human CARD8 and activates a robust inflammasome response. CARD8 is required for cell death and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines during SARS-CoV-2 infection. We further find that natural variation alters CARD8 sensing of 3CLpro, including 3CLpro-mediated antagonism rather than activation of megabat CARD8. Likewise, we find that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in humans reduces CARD8's ability to sense coronavirus 3CLpros and, instead, enables sensing of 3C proteases (3Cpro) from select picornaviruses. Our findings demonstrate that CARD8 is a broad sensor of viral protease activities and suggests that CARD8 diversity contributes to inter- and intraspecies variation in inflammasome-mediated viral sensing and immunopathology.
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