RT Book, Section T1 Measurement of cytosolic mitochondrial DNA after NLRP3 inflammasome activation A1 Traba, Javier A1 Antón Hurtado, Olga María A2 Abdul-Sater, Ali AB The NLRP3 inflammasome, a key component of the innate immune system that mediates caspase-1 activation, which in turn induces cleavage of the pyroptosis executioner gasdermin D and the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18, requires two signals to be activated. First, inflammasome priming is achieved after activation of Toll-like receptors, which leads to NF-κB signaling and transcriptional activation of the genes for NLRP3 and IL-1β. Next, the inflammasome complex is activated by a second signal that induces extrusion of mitochondrial DNA to the cytosol of the cell, which leads to its oligomerization by a not fully understood mechanism. Here we describe a simple method that employs quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) using SYBR green to measure the presence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the cytosol, which can be used to measure cytosolic mtDNA levels after inflammasome activation. PB Springer SN 978-1-0716-2143-1 SN 978-1-0716-2144-8 SN 1064-3745 YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100473 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100473 LA eng NO Antón, O.M., Traba, J. (2022). Measurement of Cytosolic Mitochondrial DNA After NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation. In: Abdul-Sater, A.A. (eds) The Inflammasome. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2459. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2144-8_12 NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) DS Docta Complutense RD 27 abr 2025