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

Nathan W. Zammit, Owen M. Siggs, Paul E. Gray, Keisuke Horikawa, David B. Langley, Stacey N. Walters, Stephen R. Daley, Claudia Loetsch, Joanna Warren, Jin Yan Yap, Daniele Cultrone, Amanda Russell, Elisabeth K. Malle, Jeanette E. Villanueva, Mark J. Cowley, Velimir Gayevskiy, Marcel E. Dinger, Robert Brink, David Zahra, Geeta ChaudhriGunasegaran Karupiah, Belinda Whittle, Carla Roots, Edward Bertram, Michiko Yamada, Yogesh Jeelall, Anselm Enders, Benjamin E. Clifton, Peter D. Mabbitt, Colin J. Jackson, Susan R. Watson, Craig N. Jenne, Lewis L. Lanier, Tim Wiltshire, Matthew H. Spitzer, Garry P. Nolan, Frank Schmitz, Alan Aderem, Benjamin T. Porebski, Ashley M. Buckle, Derek W. Abbott, John B. Ziegler, Maria E. Craig, Paul Benitez-Aguirre, Juliana Teo, Stuart G. Tangye, Cecile King, Melanie Wong, Murray P. Cox, Wilson Phung, Jia Tang, Wendy Sandoval, Ingrid E. Wertz, Daniel Christ, Christopher C. Goodnow*, Shane T. Grey

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1299-1310
    Number of pages12
    JournalNature Immunology
    Volume20
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2019

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