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Denisovan, modern human and mouse TNFAIP3 alleles tune A20 phosphorylation and immunity

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Zammit, Nathan W., Siggs, Owen M., Gray, Paul E., Horikawa, Keisuke, Langley, David B., Walters, Stacey N., Daley, Stephen R., Loetsch, Claudia +48 more·2019·Nature Immunology

Abstract

Resisting and tolerating microbes are alternative strategies to survive infection, but little is known about the evolutionary mechanisms controlling this balance. Here genomic analyses of anatomically modern humans, extinct Denisovan hominins and mice revealed a TNFAIP3 allelic series with alterations in the encoded immune response inhibitor A20. Each TNFAIP3 allele encoded substitutions at non-catalytic residues of the ubiquitin protease OTU domain that diminished IκB kinase-dependent phosphorylation and activation of A20. Two TNFAIP3 alleles encoding A20 proteins with partial phosphorylation deficits seemed to be beneficial by increasing immunity without causing spontaneous inflammatory disease: A20 T108A;I207L, originating in Denisovans and introgressed in modern humans throughout Oceania, and A20 I325N, from an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-mutagenized mouse strain. By contrast, a rare human TNFAIP3 allele encoding an A20 protein with 95% loss of phosphorylation, C243Y, caused spontaneous inflammatory disease in humans and mice. Analysis of the partial-phosphorylation A20 I325N allele in mice revealed diminished tolerance of bacterial lipopolysaccharide and poxvirus inoculation as tradeoffs for enhanced immunity.

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Zammit, N. W., Siggs, O. M., Gray, P. E., Horikawa, K., Langley, D. B., Walters, S. N., Daley, S. R., Loetsch, C., Warren, J., Yap, J. Y., Cultrone, D., Russell, A., Malle, E. K., Villanueva, J. E., Cowley, M. J., Gayevskiy, V., Dinger, M. E., Brink, R., Zahra, D., Chaudhri, G., Karupiah, G., Whittle, B., Roots, C., Bertram, E., Yamada, M., Jeelall, Y., Enders, A., Clifton, B. E., Mabbitt, P. D., Jackson, C. J., Watson, S. R., Jenne, C. N., Lanier, L. L., Wiltshire, T., Spitzer, M. H., Nolan, G. P., Schmitz, F., Aderem, A., Porebski, B. T., Buckle, A. M., Abbott, D. W., Ziegler, J. B., Craig, M. E., Benitez-Aguirre, P., Teo, J., Tangye, S. G., King, C., Wong, M., Cox, M. P., Phung, W., Tang, J., Sandoval, W., Wertz, I. E., Christ, D., Goodnow, C. C., & Grey, S. T.
Affiliations
  • Garvan Institute of Medical Research (AU)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • Australian National University (AU)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Center for Infectious Disease Research (US)
  • Monash University (AU)
  • Case Western Reserve University (US)
  • Children's Hospital at Westmead (AU)
  • Massey University (NZ)
  • Genentech (US)
Corresponding author
  • Goodnow, Christopher C.
  • Grey, Shane T.
Venue
Nature Immunology
Published
2019-09-18
Volume
20
Issue
10
Pages
1299-1310
ISSN
  • 1529-2908 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2916
OpenAlex
W2974704311
Cited by
80
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 4
FWCI
3.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Immunology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) (publishedVersion)
  • UTAS Research Repository (submittedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
  • QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (1130222, 1140691, 585490)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › NF-κB Signaling Pathways
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Keywords
A20, Denisovans, human, OTU domain, NF-κB signaling, autoinflammatory disease, immune tolerance, bacterial lipopolysaccharide, poxvirus, Denisovan introgression, Oceania, Wallace's Line, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea mutagenesis, allelic variation
MeSH terms
Protein Domains, Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha-Induced Protein 3, Alleles, Animals, Humans, Immunity, Inflammation, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Phosphorylation, Poxviridae, Poxviridae Infections, Mutation, Missense, Mice, Extinction, Biological

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