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Publication Abstract from PubMed

By N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis, we generated the mutant mouse line TUB6 that is characterised by severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and systemic sterile autoinflammation in homozygotes, and a selective T cell defect in heterozygotes. The causative missense point mutation results in the single amino acid exchange G170W in multicatalytic endopeptidase complex subunit-1 (MECL-1), the beta2i-subunit of the immuno- and thymoproteasome. Yeast mutagenesis and crystallographic data suggest that the severe TUB6-phenotype compared to the MECL-1 knockout mouse is caused by structural changes in the C-terminal appendage of beta2i that prevent the biogenesis of immuno- and thymoproteasomes. Proteasomes are essential for cell survival, and defective proteasome assembly causes selective death of cells expressing the mutant MECL-1, leading to the severe immunological phenotype. In contrast to the immunosubunits beta1i (LMP2) and beta5i (LMP7), mutations in the gene encoding MECL-1 have not yet been assigned to human disorders. The TUB6 mutant mouse line exemplifies the involvement of MECL-1 in immunopathogenesis and provides the first mouse model for primary immuno- and thymoproteasome-associated immunodeficiency that may also be relevant in humans.

Defective immuno- and thymoproteasome assembly causes severe immunodeficiency.,Treise I, Huber EM, Klein-Rodewald T, Heinemeyer W, Grassmann SA, Basler M, Adler T, Rathkolb B, Helming L, Andres C, Klaften M, Landbrecht C, Wieland T, Strom TM, McCoy KD, Macpherson AJ, Wolf E, Groettrup M, Ollert M, Neff F, Gailus-Durner V, Fuchs H, Hrabe de Angelis M, Groll M, Busch DH Sci Rep. 2018 Apr 13;8(1):5975. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24199-0. PMID:29654304^[1]

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