USP15 regulates type I interferon response and is required for pathogenesis of neuroinflammation.

Genes and pathways in which inactivation dampens tissue inflammation present new opportunities for understanding the pathogenesis of common human inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. We identified a mutation in the gene encoding the deubiquitination enzyme USP15 (Usp15L749R) that protected mice against both experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) induced by Plasmodium berghei and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Combining immunophenotyping and RNA sequencing in brain (ECM) and spinal cord (EAE) revealed that Usp15L749R-associated resistance to neuroinflammation was linked to dampened type I interferon responses in situ. In hematopoietic cells and in resident brain cells, USP15 was coexpressed with, and functionally acted together with the E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM25 to positively regulate type I interferon responses and to promote pathogenesis during neuroinflammation. The USP15-TRIM25 dyad might be a potential target for intervention in acute or chronic states of neuroinflammation.

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Sabrina Torre, Maria J Polyak, David Langlais, Nassima Fodil, James M Kennedy, Irena Radovanovic, Joanne Berghout, Gabriel A Leiva-Torres, Connie M Krawczyk, Subburaj Ilangumaran, Karen Mossman, Chen Liang, Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, Luke M Healy, Jack Antel, Nathalie Arbour, Alexandre Prat, Jacek Majewski, Mark Lathrop, Silvia M Vidal, Philippe Gros. USP15 regulates type I interferon response and is required for pathogenesis of neuroinflammation. Nature immunology. 2017 Jan;18(1):54-63

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