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Visualizing NLRP3 and ASC Specks in CTL-Stimulated DCs

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Cells were cultured on glass in complete medium. For staining ASC speck, LPS-primed and ova-pulsed BMDCs on coverslips were washed twice with PBS, incubated with CTLs that were pre-labelled with Alexa Fluor 647-CD8α (eBioscience) and fixed for 15 min at room temperature with 4% formaldehyde in PBS, and then were washed three times with PBS. After permeabilization with 0.1% Triton X-100 in PBS and blocking with 5% BSA in PBS for 1 h, cells were incubated with anti-NLRP3 (Cryo-2; AdipoGen) and anti-ASC (sc-22514-R; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) primary antibodies (in 5% BSA) for 1 h at room temperature. Cells were washed three times with PBS and then were incubated for 1 h at room temperature with the appropriate fluorescence-conjugated secondary antibody (Invitrogen). The samples were washed three times in PBS, and then incubated with DAPI for 5 min. Samples
were observed with a Zeiss LSM510.
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Immunoblotting Analysis of Circadian Clock and Inflammatory Proteins

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Protein lysates were prepared using CelLytic MT Cell Lysis Reagent (Sigma) as described previously14 (link), then subjected to SDS-PAGE, with the Precision Plus Protein Dual Color Standard marker (Bio-Rad) and transferred to PVDF membrane (Bio-Rad). Primary antibodies used were REV-ERBα (mouse monoclonal, clone 4F6; 1:1000; Abgent), or REV-ERBβ (mouse monoclonal, clone D-8; 1:1000; Santa Cruz Biotechnology), or NLRP3 (mouse monoclonal, clone Cryo-2; 1:1000; Adipogen), or IL-1β (rabbit polyclonal, GTX74034; 1:1000; GeneTex), and incubated overnight at 4 °C. β-actin (mouse monoclonal, clone C4; 1:10,000; Millipore) was used as a loading control. Membranes were washed with tris-buffered saline with 0.1% Tween-20 (TBS-T), and incubated for 1 h at room temperature with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (anti-mouse, 7076S, 1:5000; anti-rabbit, 7074S, 1:5000; Cell Signaling) in 3% skim milk in TBS-T. Proteins were visualized using Clarity Western ECL substrate (Bio-Rad), according to the manufacturer’s specifications. Densitometry quantification was performed using Image J 1.46 (NIH). All original blots are provided in Supplementary Fig. 5.
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Immunofluorescence Imaging of NLRP3, Caspase-1, and ASC

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J774A.1 cells were stimulated as described above. After washing with PBS, the cells were fixed and permeated with 70–30 acetone–methanol as previously described (45 (link)). Briefly, cells were placed in a humidified slide chamber blocked for 1 h in 10% normal donkey serum (Jackson Immunologicals). After removal of the donkey serum, the primary antibodies to NLRP3 (Cryo-2; AdipoGen), caspase-1 (sc-514; Santa Cruz Biotechnology), and ASC (D2W8U; Cell Signaling) or isomolar, species-specific anti-IgG (R&D Systems, Inc.) were added and incubated overnight at 4 °C. The slides were then washed three times with PBS, and cells were incubated for 1 h at room temperature with donkey anti-mouse–Alexa555 (Life Technologies) or donkey anti-rabbit–Alexa488 (Life Technologies) conjugated secondary antibodies. Nuclei were stained with DAPI (Life Technologies). FRET images were acquired using a Marianas Imaging Station (Intelligent Imaging Innovations) using a Zeiss 639 Plan-Apochromat objective (1.4 N.A.), a Sutter Xenon light source, and a Cooke SensiCam (The Cooke Corporation) as previously described (45 (link)). The FRET was calculated as FRET = Transfer − (Fd/D) − (Fa/Aa) as reported (46 (link)).
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NLRP3 Protein Expression Analysis

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To assess NLRP3 protein levels, all U937 cells were differentiated with PMA (50 ng/ml, 16 h) and treated with LPS (40 ng/ml, 3 h) or doxycycline (0.5–2 μg/ml, 3 h). Cells were directly lysed in sample buffer 2X. Samples were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes. The following antibodies were used: anti-NLRP3 (Cryo2; Adipogen), anti-IL-1β (D3U3E; Cell Signaling), anti-IL-18 (D2F3B; Cell Signaling), anti-LaminB (B-10; Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-actin (C4; Sigma-Aldrich), HRP-anti-Mouse IgG (H+L) (Promega).
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Protein Expression and Quantification

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Cells were lysed with RIPA lysis buffer, supplemented with protease and phosphatase inhibitors (both from Roche Diagnostics) and fractionated using the NE-PER Nuclear and Cytoplasmic extraction reagents (Thermo Scientific). Supernatants were filtered and concentrated by trichloroacetic acid precipitation, followed by aceton desiccation. Proteins were run on SDS-PAGE (4–12% Bis-Tris gels, Invitrogen), blotted onto PVDF membranes (GE Healthcare) blocked with 5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) or non-fat dry milk (NFDM), incubated with primary antibody: rabbit anti-IL-1 beta (1:2,500 in 5% NFDM, ab9722, Abcam), rabbit anti-ASC (1:200 in 5% BSA, sc-22514-R, Santa Cruz), mouse anti-NLRP3/NALP3 (1:1,000 in 5% milk, Cryo-2, Adipogen) or rabbit anti-MMP7 (1:200 in 5% BSA, ab4044, Abcam), washed with PBS tween 0.1% and incubated with secondary antibodies in 5% NFDM (goat anti rabbit-HRP or goat anti-mouse-HRP, Cell Signaling). Bands were imaged using ECL Plus detection reagent (GE Health Care) and quantified using ImageJ. GAPDH (1:1,000, sc-25778, Santa Cruz) was used as loading control.
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Antibody Electroporation in Human MDMs

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Human MDMs were electroporated with PBS, mouse anti-GFP (9F9.F9; Abcam) or mouse anti-NLRP3 (Cryo-2; Adipogen) IgG antibodies. All antibodies used for electroporation were passed through Amicon Ultra-0.5 100 kDa centrifugal filter devices (Millipore) to remove traces of azide and replace buffer with PBS. All antibodies were diluted to 0.6 mg/mL in PBS prior to electroporation. Antibody electroporation was performed using the Neon Transfection System (Thermo Fisher Scientific). MDMs were washed with PBS and resuspended in Buffer R (Thermo Fisher Scientific) at a concentration of 1.4 × 108 cells/mL. For each electroporation reaction 1.4 × 106 cells (10 μl) were mixed with 2 μl of antibody or PBS. The mixture was taken up into a 10 μl Neon® Pipette Tip (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and electroporated using the following settings: 1400V, 20 ms, 2 pulses. Electroporated cells were transferred to growth medium without antibiotics.
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NLRP3 Ubiquitination Detection Protocol

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NLRP3 ubiquitination was detected in control and TGF-β1 stimulated cells lysed in 1% NP-40 buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.4], 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 1% NP-40, 1 mM PMSF, 1 mM Na3VO4, Roche protease inhibitors) or RIPA buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl [pH 8.0], 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 0.05% sodium deoxycholate, 1% Triton X-100, 0.1% SDS, 1 mM PMSF, Roche protease inhibitors). NLRP3 was immunoprecipitated overnight at 4 °C using 0.01 μg/μl of anti-NLRP3 antibody (Cryo-2, Adipogen) and 10 μl of packed protein G sepharose beads (GE Healthcare) per 100 μl of lysate. Immunoprecipitated complexes were then washed extensively in lysis buffer and proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and analyzed by immunoblotting.
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NLRP3/ASC Interaction and Ubiquitination Detection

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To detect NLRP3/ASC interaction, cells were lysed with IP buffer (1% NP-40, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, and complete protease and phosphatase inhibitor cocktail) and sonicated for 5 sec at 20 amp. The lysates were precleared and incubated with ASC antibody (sc-22514-R, Santa Cruz)46 (link) overnight at 4 °C46 (link).
To detect NLRP3 ubiquitination, BMDMs were lysed with TTNE. The lysates were precleared and incubated with NLRP3 antibody overnight at 4 °C. the beads were rinsed with lysis buffer and eluted (0.1 M Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 0.4% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 12% glycerol, 0.286 M β-mercaptoethanol, and 0.32% bromophenol blue)35 (link). The lysates were precleared and incubated with NLRP3 antibody (Cryo-2, Adipogen)35 (link) overnight at 4 °C.
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Western Blot Analysis of Inflammatory Proteins

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PBMCs, monocytes or macrophages were lysed in (5×) Laemmli SDS buffer supplemented with 1% β-mercaptoethanol, 0.01% bromophenol blue and protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche). Equal amounts of protein were analyzed by SDS-PAGE. Proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes and incubated with primary and secondary antibodies following the manufacturers’ instructions. Primary antibodies against ASC (1:2000, AL177), caspase-1 (1:1000, Bally-1) and NLRP3 (1:1000, Cryo-2) were from Adipogen. Anti-IL-1β (1:500, AF201) antibody was from R&D. Anti-GAPDH and anti-Actin antibodies (1:5000) were from Cell Signaling. Secondary HRP-linked antibodies against rabbit and mouse IgG (1:2000) were from Cell Signaling and against goat IgG (1:2000) was from R&D. Immunoblots were revealed using the enhanced chemiluminescence reagent (Thermo Scientific) and visualized using a BIORAD camera (Universal Hood II). GAPDH or Actin was used as loading controls.
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Immunoblot Analysis of NLRP3 Inflammasome

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Anti-β-actin (1:10,000, BH10D10) was bought from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, United States); Anti-NLRP3 (1:1,000. Cryo-2) and Anti-ASC (1:1,000, AL177) were purchased from Adipogen (San Diego, CA, United States); Anti-Caspase-1 (1:1,000, ab179515) and Anti-NEK7 (1:10,000 ab133514) were bought from Abcam (Cambridge, CB2 0AX, United Kingdom); Anti-IL-1β (1:000 AF-401-NA; RRID: AB_416684) was obtained from RD systems (Tustin, CA, United States); the DyLight 488-labeled secondary antibody (1:50, A120-100D2) was purchased from InvivoGen (San Diego, CA, United States); and FITC anti-mouse/human CD11b (101216, 1:500 for flow cytometry) and APC anti-mouse Ly-6G (127614, 1:500 for flow cytometry) were from BioLegend.
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