Figure 5.
Caspase-1–deficient macrophages are not resistant to apoptosis induced by invasive Salmonella. Primary bone marrow–derived macrophages isolated from wt caspase-1–deficient mice were stained with CM-X-ROS and DAPI and infected with wt Salmonella or with the invasion-defective invA − and sipB − strains (m.o.i 25) as described in the legend to Fig. 1. (A) Caspase-1–deficient macrophages were infected with wt Salmonella or with the invasion-defective invA − and sipB − strains. The percentage of cells containing condensed chromatin was determined as described in the legend to Fig. 1, 25 min (open bars) and 4 h (closed bars) after infection. UT, untreated cells. The SD was <5% in all cases, and it has been omitted. (B) Photomicrographs of caspase-1–deficient macrophages infected with Salmonella.