Human OTULIN haploinsufficiency impairs cell-intrinsic immunity to staphylococcal a-toxin

András N. Spaan*, Anna Lena Neehus, Emmanuel Laplantine, Frederik Staels, Masato Ogishi, Yoann Seeleuthner, Franck Rapaport, Keenan A. Lacey, Erika Van Nieuwenhove, Maya Chrabieh, David Hum, Mélanie Migaud, Araksya Izmiryan, Lazaro Lorenzo, Tatiana Kochetkov, Dani A.C. Heesterbeek, Bart W. Bardoel, Ashley L. DuMont, Kerry Dobbs, Solenne ChardonnetSøren Heissel, Timour Baslan, Peng Zhang, Rui Yang, Dusan Bogunovic, Herman F. Wunderink, Pieter Jan A. Haas, Henrik Molina, Griet Van Buggenhout, Stanislas Lyonnet, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Mikko R.J. Seppänen, Robert Weil, Gisela Seminario, Héctor Gomez-Tello, Carine Wouters, Mehrnaz Mesdaghi, Mohammad Shahrooei, Xavier Bossuyt, Erdal Sag, Rezan Topaloglu, Seza Ozen, Helen L. Leavis, Maarten M.J. van Eijk, Liliana Bezrodnik, Lizbeth Blancas Galicia, Alain Hovnanian, Aude Nassif, Brigitte Bader-Meunier, Bénédicte Neven, Isabelle Meyts, Rik Schrijvers, Anne Puel, Jacinta Bustamante, Ivona Aksentijevich, Daniel L. Kastner, Victor J. Torres, Stéphanie Humblet-Baron, Adrian Liston, Laurent Abel, Bertrand Boisson, Jean Laurent Casanova

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Abstract

The molecular basis of interindividual clinical variability upon infection with Staphylococcus aureus is unclear. We describe patients with haploinsufficiency for the linear deubiquitinase OTULIN, encoded by a gene on chromosome 5p. Patients suffer from episodes of life-threatening necrosis, typically triggered by S. aureus infection. The disorder is phenocopied in patients with the 5p- (Cri-du-Chat) chromosomal deletion syndrome. OTULIN haploinsufficiency causes an accumulation of linear ubiquitin in dermal fibroblasts, but tumor necrosis factor receptor–mediated nuclear factor kB signaling remains intact. Blood leukocyte subsets are unaffected. The OTULIN-dependent accumulation of caveolin-1 in dermal fibroblasts, but not leukocytes, facilitates the cytotoxic damage inflicted by the staphylococcal virulence factor a-toxin. Naturally elicited antibodies against a-toxin contribute to incomplete clinical penetrance. Human OTULIN haploinsufficiency underlies life-threatening staphylococcal disease by disrupting cell-intrinsic immunity to a-toxin in nonleukocytic cells.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbereabm6380
JournalScience
Volume376
Issue number6599
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jun 2022

Keywords

  • Bacterial Toxins/immunology
  • Cri-du-Chat Syndrome/genetics
  • Endopeptidases/genetics
  • Haploinsufficiency/genetics
  • Hemolysin Proteins/immunology
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions/genetics
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Cellular/genetics
  • Necrosis
  • Staphylococcal Infections/genetics
  • Staphylococcus aureus

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