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- Title
Bacillus cereus non-haemolytic enterotoxin activates the NLRP3 inflammasome.
- Authors
Fox, Daniel; Mathur, Anukriti; Xue, Yansong; Liu, Yunqi; Tan, Wei Hong; Feng, Shouya; Pandey, Abhimanu; Ngo, Chinh; Hayward, Jenni A.; Atmosukarto, Ines I.; Price, Jason D.; Johnson, Matthew D.; Jessberger, Nadja; Robertson, Avril A. B.; Burgio, Gaetan; Tscharke, David C.; Fox, Edward M.; Leyton, Denisse L.; Kaakoush, Nadeem O.; Märtlbauer, Erwin
- Abstract
Inflammasomes are important for host defence against pathogens and homeostasis with commensal microbes. Here, we show non-haemolytic enterotoxin (NHE) from the neglected human foodborne pathogen Bacillus cereus is an activator of the NLRP3 inflammasome and pyroptosis. NHE is a non-redundant toxin to haemolysin BL (HBL) despite having a similar mechanism of action. Via a putative transmembrane region, subunit C of NHE initiates binding to the plasma membrane, leading to the recruitment of subunit B and subunit A, thus forming a tripartite lytic pore that is permissive to efflux of potassium. NHE mediates killing of cells from multiple lineages and hosts, highlighting a versatile functional repertoire in different host species. These data indicate that NHE and HBL operate synergistically to induce inflammation and show that multiple virulence factors from the same pathogen with conserved function and mechanism of action can be exploited for sensing by a single inflammasome. The Bacillus haemolytic enterotoxin haemolysin BL has been shown to activate the NLRP3 inflammasome. Here the authors show that a non-haemolytic enterotoxin (NHE) from B. cereus can also activate the NLRP3 inflammasome with a similar mechanism of lytic pore formation.
- Subjects
BACILLUS cereus; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD pathogens; CELL membranes; BIOCHEMICAL mechanism of action; INFLAMMASOMES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-14534-3