The NOD-like receptor protein-3 (NLRP3) inflammasome, which is assembled with NLRP3, an apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain (ASC), an endogenous “danger signal” followed by cysteine protease-1, and exogenous infection, is an important cytosolic protein complex [10]. Here, NLRP3 is linked to infection.