Autophagy genes in myeloid cells counteract IFN?-induced TNF-mediated cell death and fatal TNF-induced shock.

Host inflammatory responses must be tightly regulated to ensure effective immunity while limiting tissue injury. IFN gamma (IFN?) primes macrophages to mount robust inflammatory responses. However, IFN? also induces cell death, and the pathways that regulate IFN?-induced cell death are incompletely understood. Using genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screening, we identified autophagy genes ...
as central mediators of myeloid cell survival during the IFN? response. Hypersensitivity of autophagy gene-deficient cells to IFN? was mediated by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) signaling via receptor interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1)- and caspase 8-mediated cell death. Mice with myeloid cell-specific autophagy gene deficiency exhibited marked hypersensitivity to fatal systemic TNF administration. This increased mortality in myeloid autophagy gene-deficient mice required the IFN? receptor, and mortality was completely reversed by pharmacologic inhibition of RIPK1 kinase activity. These findings provide insight into the mechanism of IFN?-induced cell death via TNF, demonstrate a critical function of autophagy genes in promoting cell viability in the presence of inflammatory cytokines, and implicate this cell survival function in protection against mortality during the systemic inflammatory response.
Mesh Terms:
Animals, Autophagy, Autophagy-Related Protein 5, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Cell Line, Cell Survival, Cytoprotection, Genome, Interferon-gamma, Mice, Knockout, Myeloid Cells, NF-kappa B, Receptor-Interacting Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I, Signal Transduction, Transcriptome, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Date: Dec. 13, 2018
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