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SP140-RESIST pathway regulates interferon mRNA stability and antiviral immunity

  1. Author:
    Witt, Kristen C
    Dziulko, Adam
    An, Joohyun
    Pekovic,Filip [ORCID]
    Cheng, Arthur Xiuyuan [ORCID]
    Liu, Grace Y [ORCID]
    Lee, Ophelia Vosshall [ORCID]
    Turner,David
    Lari, Azra [ORCID]
    Gaidt, Moritz M
    Chavez, Roberto
    Fattinger, Stefan A [ORCID]
    Abraham, Preethy
    Dhaliwal, Harmandeep
    Lee, Angus Y
    Kotov, Dmitri I [ORCID]
    Coscoy, Laurent
    Glaunsinger, Britt A [ORCID]
    Valkov,Eugene [ORCID]
    Chuong, Edward B [ORCID]
    Vance, Russell E [ORCID]

  2. Author Address

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA., Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA., Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA., National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, USA., Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA., Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria., Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. rvance@berkeley.edu., Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. rvance@berkeley.edu., Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. rvance@berkeley.edu., Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. rvance@berkeley.edu.,
    1. Year: 2025
    2. Date: Jun 11
    3. Epub Date: 2025 06 11
  2. Journal: Nature
  4. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    Type I interferons are essential for antiviral immunity1 but must be tightly regulated2. The conserved transcriptional repressor SP140 inhibits interferon-ß (Ifnb1) expression through an unknown mechanism3,4. Here we report that SP140 does not directly repress Ifnb1 transcription. Instead, SP140 negatively regulates Ifnb1 mRNA stability by directly repressing the expression of a previously uncharacterized regulator that we call RESIST (regulated stimulator of interferon via stabilization of transcript; previously annotated as annexin 2 receptor). RESIST promotes Ifnb1 mRNA stability by counteracting Ifnb1 mRNA destabilization mediated by the tristetraprolin (TTP) family of RNA-binding proteins and the CCR4-NOT deadenylase complex. SP140 localizes within punctate structures called nuclear bodies that have important roles in silencing DNA-virus gene expression in the nucleus3. Consistent with this observation, we find that SP140 inhibits replication of the gammaherpesvirus MHV68. The antiviral activity of SP140 is independent of its ability to regulate Ifnb1. Our results establish dual antiviral and interferon regulatory functions for SP140. We propose that SP140 and RESIST participate in antiviral effector-triggered immunity5,6. © 2025. The Author(s).

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  2. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09152-2
  3. PMID: 40500448
  4. PII : 10.1038/s41586-025-09152-2

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