Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Article Title: Cold-induced loss of interaction with HSC70 triggers inflammasome activity of familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome-causing mutants of NLRP3.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.12.018
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 2. HSC70 negatively regulates inflammasome formation by NLRP3 mutants. (A) HEK293T cells were transfected with HSC70-specific siRNA or control siRNA (Con siRNA), and after 42h of transfection, siRNA mediated knockdown of HSC70 was assessed by western blotting. GAPDH was used as loading control. (B) Effect of HSC70 knockdown on speck formation by WT-NLRP3, NLRP3-R260W and NLRP3-L353P. Representative images show enhanced ASC-speck formation by NLRP3 mutants upon siRNA mediated HSC70 knockdown. Cells co-expressing HA-ASC and Myc-NLRP3, Myc-NLRP3-R260W or Myc-NLRP3- L353P were scored for presence of specks. ASC-specks formed inside the cells are indicated by white arrowheads. Scale bars, 10 mm. (C) Bar diagram shows quantitation of effect of HSC70 knockdown on ASC-speck formation by NLRP3, NLRP3-R260W and NLRP3-L353P. n ¼ 3. **p < 0.005.
Article Snippet: Expression vectors- NLRP3 expression vectors pEGFP-C2-NLRP3 (#73955) and pCDNA-Myc-NLRP3-R260W (#73956) were obtained from Addgene, USA.
Techniques: Transfection, Control, Knockdown, Western Blot, Expressing, Quantitation Assay