Chloride sensing by WNK1 regulates NLRP3 inflammasome activation and pyroptosis

The serine/threonine kinase WNK1 is an inhibitor of chloride efflux. Here the authors show that this inhibition is a means of negatively regulating the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in macrophages, leading to reduced inflammatory responses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lindsey Mayes-Hopfinger, Aura Enache, Jian Xie, Chou-Long Huang, Robert Köchl, Victor L. J. Tybulewicz, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, Emad S. Alnemri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24784-4