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    Gasdermin D Exerts Anti-inflammatory Effects by Promoting Neutrophil Death
    (2018) Kambara, Hiroto; Liu, Fei; Zhang, Xiaoyu; Liu, Peng; Bajrami, Besnik; Teng, Yan; Zhao, Li; Zhou, Shiyi; Yu, Hongbo; Zhou, Weidong; Silberstein, Leslie; Cheng, Tao; Han, Mingzhe; Xu, Yuanfu; Luo, Hongbo
    SUMMARY Gasdermin D (GSDMD) is considered a proinflammatory factor that mediates pyroptosis in macrophages to protect hosts from intracellular bacteria. Here, we reveal that GSDMD deficiency paradoxically augmented host responses to extracellular Escherichia coli, mainly by delaying neutrophil death, which established GSDMD as a negative regulator of innate immunity. In contrast to its activation in macrophages, in which activated inflammatory caspases cleave GSDMD to produce an N-terminal fragment (GSDMD-cNT) to trigger pyroptosis, GSDMD cleavage and activation in neutrophils was caspase independent. It was mediated by a neutrophil-specific serine protease, neutrophil elastase (ELANE), released from cytoplasmic granules into the cytosol in aging neutrophils. ELANE-mediated GSDMD cleavage was upstream of the caspase cleavage site and produced a fully active ELANE-derived NT fragment (GSDMD-eNT) that induced lytic cell death as efficiently as GSDMD-cNT. Thus, GSDMD is pleiotropic, exerting both pro- and anti-inflammatory effects that make it a potential target for antibacterial and anti-inflammatory therapies.