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LUBAC deficiency perturbs TLR3 signaling to cause immunodeficiency and autoinflammation

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Zinngrebe, Julia 
Rieser, Eva 
Taraborrelli, Lucia 
Peltzer, Nieves 
Hartwig, Torsten 

Abstract

The linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex (LUBAC), consisting of SHANK-associated RH-domain-interacting protein (SHARPIN), heme-oxidized IRP2 ubiquitin ligase-1 (HOIL-1), and HOIL-1-interacting protein (HOIP), is a critical regulator of inflammation and immunity. This is highlighted by the fact that patients with perturbed linear ubiquitination caused by mutations in the Hoip or Hoil-1 genes, resulting in knockouts of these proteins, may simultaneously suffer from immunodeficiency and autoinflammation. TLR3 plays a crucial, albeit controversial, role in viral infection and tissue damage. We identify a pivotal role of LUBAC in TLR3 signaling and discover a functional interaction between LUBAC components and TLR3 as crucial for immunity to influenza A virus infection. On the biochemical level, we identify LUBAC components as interacting with the TLR3-signaling complex (SC), thereby enabling TLR3-mediated gene activation. Absence of LUBAC components increases formation of a previously unrecognized TLR3-induced death-inducing SC, leading to enhanced cell death. Intriguingly, excessive TLR3-mediated cell death, induced by double-stranded RNA present in the skin of SHARPIN-deficient chronic proliferative dermatitis mice (cpdm), is a major contributor to their autoinflammatory skin phenotype, as genetic coablation of Tlr3 substantially ameliorated cpdm dermatitis. Thus, LUBAC components control TLR3-mediated innate immunity, thereby preventing development of immunodeficiency and autoinflammation.

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Keywords

Animals, Cell Death, Death Domain Receptor Signaling Adaptor Proteins, Dermatitis, Gene Silencing, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Humans, Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes, Inflammation, Influenza A virus, Keratinocytes, Mice, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Poly I-C, Signal Transduction, Toll-Like Receptor 3, Transcription Factors, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases

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Journal of Experimental Medicine

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Journal ISSN

1540-9538
1540-9538

Volume Title

213

Publisher

Rockefeller University Press
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (090315/Z/09/Z)
Wellcome Trust (090315/B/09/A)
Medical Research Council (MR/M019810/1)
Wellcome Trust (201946/Z/16/Z)
This work was funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award (096831/Z/11/Z; and grant 090315 to H. Ren) and an European Research Council advanced grant (294880; H. Walczak). J. Zinngrebe received support from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds and N. Peltzer received funds from the Swiss National Science Foundation. B.J. Ferguson is supported by an Isaac Newton Trust/Wellcome Trust ISSF/University of Cambridge research grant. B. Dome received support from the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA-K108465).