“…The infl ammasome is a multiprotein complex composed of a sensor NLR protein, the PYD-and CARD-domain containing adapter protein ASC, and the inflammatory protease caspase-1 (Martinon et al, 2002). Once activated, NLR changes conformation to recruit ASC and assemble the infl ammasome secrete IL-1β and IL-18, and IL-1 receptor antagonists have been proved to be an effective treatment for these autoinfl ammatory syndromes (Hoffman et al, 2004;Rosengren et al, 2007). Recently, increasing evidence indicates that dysregulated production of IL-1β are implicated in the pathophysiology of several common diseases, including atherosclerosis (Duewell et al, 2010), osteoarthritis (Denoble et al, 2011), metabolic syndrome (Strowig et al, 2012), and type 2 diabetes (Zhou et al, 2010).…”