Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Type I interferon-mediated autoinflammation due to DNase II deficiency

  • Mathieu P. Rodero,
  • Alessandra Tesser,
  • Eva Bartok,
  • Gillian I. Rice,
  • Erika Della Mina,
  • Marine Depp,
  • Benoit Beitz,
  • Vincent Bondet,
  • Nicolas Cagnard,
  • Darragh Duffy,
  • Michael Dussiot,
  • Marie-Louise Frémond,
  • Marco Gattorno,
  • Flavia Guillem,
  • Naoki Kitabayashi,
  • Fabrice Porcheray,
  • Frederic Rieux-Laucat,
  • Luis Seabra,
  • Carolina Uggenti,
  • Stefano Volpi,
  • Leo A H. Zeef,
  • Marie-Alexandra Alyanakian,
  • Jacques Beltrand,
  • Anna Monica Bianco,
  • Nathalie Boddaert,
  • Chantal Brouzes,
  • Sophie Candon,
  • Roberta Caorsi,
  • Marina Charbit,
  • Monique Fabre,
  • Flavio Faletra,
  • Muriel Girard,
  • Annie Harroche,
  • Evelyn Hartmann,
  • Dominique Lasne,
  • Annalisa Marcuzzi,
  • Bénédicte Neven,
  • Patrick Nitschke,
  • Tiffany Pascreau,
  • Serena Pastore,
  • Capucine Picard,
  • Paolo Picco,
  • Elisa Piscianz,
  • Michel Polak,
  • Pierre Quartier,
  • Marion Rabant,
  • Gabriele Stocco,
  • Andrea Taddio,
  • Florence Uettwiller,
  • Erica Valencic,
  • Diego Vozzi,
  • Gunther Hartmann,
  • Winfried Barchet,
  • Olivier Hermine,
  • Brigitte Bader-Meunier,
  • Alberto Tommasini,
  • Yanick J. Crow

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01932-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Nucleic acid sensing is important to ensure that an innate immune response is only mounted against microbial nucleic acid. Here, the authors identify loss-of-function mutations in the DNASE2 gene that cause type I interferon-mediated autoinflammation due to enhanced systemic interferon signaling.