Severe type I interferonopathy and unrestrained interferon signaling due to a homozygous germline mutation in STAT2

Christopher J.A. Duncan; Benjamin J. Thompson; Rui Chen; Gillian I. Rice; Florian Gothe; Dan F. Young; Simon C. Lovell; Victoria G. Shuttleworth; Vicky Brocklebank; Bronte Corner; Andrew J. Skelton; Vincent Bondet; Jonathan Coxhead; Darragh Duffy; Cecile Fourrage; John H. Livingston; Julija Pavaine; Edmund Cheesman; Stephania Bitetti; Angela Grainger; Meghan Acres; Barbara A. Innes; Aneta Mikulasova; Ruyue Sun; Rafiqul Hussain; Ronnie Wright; Robert Wynn; Mohammed Zarhrate; Leo A.H. Zeef; Katrina Wood; Stephen M. Hughes; Claire L. Harris; Karin R. Engelhardt; Yanick J. Crow; Richard E. Randall; David Kavanagh; Sophie Hambleton; Tracy A. Briggs

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Severe type I interferonopathy and unrestrained interferon signaling due to a homozygous germline mutation in STAT2

Christopher J.A. Duncan^*, Benjamin J. Thompson, Rui Chen, Gillian I. Rice, Florian Gothe, Dan F. Young, Simon C. Lovell, Victoria G. Shuttleworth, Vicky Brocklebank, Bronte Corner, Andrew J. Skelton, Vincent Bondet, Jonathan Coxhead, Darragh Duffy, Cecile Fourrage, John H. Livingston, Julija Pavaine, Edmund Cheesman, Stephania Bitetti, Angela GraingerMeghan Acres, Barbara A. Innes, Aneta Mikulasova, Ruyue Sun, Rafiqul Hussain, Ronnie Wright, Robert Wynn, Mohammed Zarhrate, Leo A.H. Zeef, Katrina Wood, Stephen M. Hughes, Claire L. Harris, Karin R. Engelhardt, Yanick J. Crow, Richard E. Randall, David Kavanagh, Sophie Hambleton^*, Tracy A. Briggs^*

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Excessive type I interferon (IFNα/β) activity is implicated in a spectrum of human disease, yet its direct role remains to be conclusively proven. We investigated two siblings with severe early-onset autoinflammatory disease and an elevated IFN signature. Whole-exome sequencing revealed a shared homozygous missense Arg148Trp variant in STAT2, a transcription factor that functions exclusively downstream of innate IFNs. Cells bearing STAT2^R148W in homozygosity (but not heterozygosity) were hypersensitive to IFNα/β, which manifest as prolonged Janus kinase-signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) signaling and transcriptional activation. We show that this gain of IFN activity results from the failure of mutant STAT2^R148W to interact with ubiquitin-specific protease 18, a key STAT2-dependent negative regulator of IFNα/β signaling. These observations reveal an essential in vivo function of STAT2 in the regulation of human IFNα/β signaling, providing concrete evidence of the serious pathological consequences of unrestrained IFNα/β activity and supporting efforts to target this pathway therapeutically in IFN-associated disease.

Original language	English
Article number	eaav7501
Journal	Science Immunology
Volume	4
Issue number	42
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aav7501
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2019

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Duncan, C. J. A., Thompson, B. J., Chen, R., Rice, G. I., Gothe, F., Young, D. F., Lovell, S. C., Shuttleworth, V. G., Brocklebank, V., Corner, B., Skelton, A. J., Bondet, V., Coxhead, J., Duffy, D., Fourrage, C., Livingston, J. H., Pavaine, J., Cheesman, E., Bitetti, S., ... Briggs, T. A. (2019). Severe type I interferonopathy and unrestrained interferon signaling due to a homozygous germline mutation in STAT2. Science Immunology, 4(42), Article eaav7501. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aav7501

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Severe type I interferonopathy and unrestrained interferon signaling due to a homozygous germline mutation in STAT2

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