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Immunofluorescence Analysis of Neural Progenitor Cells

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Cultures were fixed in freshly prepared, buffered 4% paraformaldehyde. After blocking with 20% normal goat serum and permeabilization for 10min with 0.2% Triton X-100 in PBS, cultures were incubated overnight at 4°C with the following antibodies (mAb, monoclonal; pAb, polyclonal): Nestin ( MAB5326, Millipore, 1:200), Ki67 (ab16667, Abcam, 1:1000), Oct4 (MAB4401, Millipore, 1:2000), Pax6 (Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; 1:30), β-tubulin isotype III (β-tubIII, mAb, MMS-435P Covance, 1:400), Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP, z033429-2, Dako, 1:400), Lamp1 (pAb, ab24170, Abcam, 1:750), Cleaved Caspase-3 (pAb, #9661, Cell Signaling, 1:500), NLRP3 (pAb, AG-20B-0014-C100, AdipoGen, 1:200), Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 (MAP2, AB5622, Millipore, 1:400), Caspase 1 (Casp1, SC-515, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, 1:100), LC3B (pAb#2775, Cell Signaling, 1:400), GAPDH (ab9485, Abcam, 1:3000). After removal of the primary antibodies and repeated washes with PBS, cultures were incubated at room temperature for 45 min with secondary antibodies labeled with Alexa Fluor 633 or 488 (anti-mouse and/or anti-rabbit, Molecular Probes). Samples were then labeled with DAPI (0.3 μg/ml, Roche) for nuclear staining and rinsed with PBS for mounting and analysis. Microphotographs were taken using a confocal microscope.
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Protein Extraction and Western Blot Analysis

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Proteins were extracted from colon tissues using RIPA lysis buffer supplemented with proteinase and phosphatase inhibitors (Roche) as previously described.30 . Protein concentration was assessed using Pierce BCA protein assay (ThermoFischer Scientific) and all samples were normalized to 2μg/ml. Samples were resolved by 8%–15% sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel (SDS-PAGE) electrophoresis and transferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes. Blocking was performed in 5% skim milk for 1 h, and membranes were incubated with primary antibodies overnight at 4°C. Membranes were incubated with horse radish peroxidase–conjugated secondary antibody for 1 h, and proteins were visualized by using ECL substrate (ThermoScientific). Primary antibodies used were anti-pyrin (1:1000, ab195975, Abcam), anti-caspase-1 (1:500, sc-515, Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-P-STAT3 Tyr705 (1:1,000, 9131, Cell Signaling Technology), anti-IL-1β (1:1000, AF410, R&D systems) and anti-GAPDH (1:10,000; 5174, Cell Signaling Technology).
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Measuring Caspase-Induced Cytotoxicity in HEK-293T Cells

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HEK-293T cells were plated at 4 × 105 cells in six-well plates and transfected using Fugene6 according to manufacturer's instructions (Promega, Madison, WI). Plasmids used included human TUBB6-Flag and TUBB-Flag (ThermoScientific), human caspase-1-Flag (variant alpha; OriGene, Rockville, MD), and human caspase-9 (variant alpha; OriGene). For assessing inhibition of caspase-induced cytotoxicity, 1 μg of total plasmid was used for each transfection, with 400 ng of caspase plasmid and 300 ng of TUBB6-Flag plasmid and the remainder made up with empty vector. Twenty-three hours posttransfection, cytotoxicity was measured using Cytotox-Glo. Cytotoxicity measurements were background subtracted (cells transfected with empty vector) and expressed as a percentage relative to caspase-1 or caspase-9 plus empty vector set to 100 to obtain “normalized RLUs.” Expression levels were assessed by Western blot for human caspase-1 (1:200, SC-515; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX), caspase-9 (1:1000, C9; Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA), and Flag (1:1000, M2; Sigma).
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Immunoblotting for Active Caspase-1 Detection

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Immunoblotting was performed as described previously53 (link). THP-1 cell lines in suspension were treated with 50 ng/mL PMA (phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate) for 12 h at 37 °C. For recovery of active caspase-1, cell culture supernatants of adherent THP-1 cells that were treated with one of the four compounds of interest were incubated with biotinyl-VAD-fmk (30 µM) overnight at 4 °C in order to precipitate the active, cleaved fragment p10 of caspase-1. The biotinyl-VAD-fmk/caspase-1 p10 complex was recovered by using streptavidin-Sepharose beads (Sigma), adding 30 µL of 1:1 streptavidin-Sepharose suspension per 250 mL of cell supernatant overnight at 4 °C. Beads were pelleted by centrifugation (3000 rpm/10 min/4 °C) and were washed 3 times in cold IP buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 50 mM NaF, 0.3% NP-40, 0.1 mM Na3VO4) before adding SDS loading buffer on top of the beads. Beads were then heated for 5 min and pelleted. Supernatant was analyzed by SDS-PAGE/immunoblotting using an antibody that detects the p10 small subunit of processed human caspase-1 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, sc515).
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Western Blot Analysis of Caspase-1 and IL-1β

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Western blot analyses were performed as previously described [10] . Caspase-1 [both the precursor peptide = procasp-1 (45 kDa) and the p10 subunit] and IL-1β [both the precursor peptide = proIL-1β (37 kDa) and the mature IL-1β (17 kDa)] were detected with rabbit polyclonal antibodies (sc-515 and sc-7884, respectively; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX, USA). To confirm the homogeneity of the proteins loaded, the membranes were stripped, and incubated with an anti-βactin monoclonal antibody (Sigma-Aldrich). The membranes were overlaid with Western Lightning Chemiluminescence Reagent Plus (PerkinElmer Life Science, Norwalk, CT, USA), and exposed to Hyperfilm ECL film (Amersham Biosciences, Piscataway, NJ, USA).
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