Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

A missense mutation in the MLKL brace region promotes lethal neonatal inflammation and hematopoietic dysfunction

  • Joanne M. Hildebrand,
  • Maria Kauppi,
  • Ian J. Majewski,
  • Zikou Liu,
  • Allison J. Cox,
  • Sanae Miyake,
  • Emma J. Petrie,
  • Michael A. Silk,
  • Zhixiu Li,
  • Maria C. Tanzer,
  • Gabriela Brumatti,
  • Samuel N. Young,
  • Cathrine Hall,
  • Sarah E. Garnish,
  • Jason Corbin,
  • Michael D. Stutz,
  • Ladina Di Rago,
  • Pradnya Gangatirkar,
  • Emma C. Josefsson,
  • Kristin Rigbye,
  • Holly Anderton,
  • James A. Rickard,
  • Anne Tripaydonis,
  • Julie Sheridan,
  • Thomas S. Scerri,
  • Victoria E. Jackson,
  • Peter E. Czabotar,
  • Jian-Guo Zhang,
  • Leila Varghese,
  • Cody C. Allison,
  • Marc Pellegrini,
  • Gillian M. Tannahill,
  • Esme C. Hatchell,
  • Tracy A. Willson,
  • Dina Stockwell,
  • Carolyn A. de Graaf,
  • Janelle Collinge,
  • Adrienne Hilton,
  • Natasha Silke,
  • Sukhdeep K. Spall,
  • Diep Chau,
  • Vicki Athanasopoulos,
  • Donald Metcalf,
  • Ronald M. Laxer,
  • Alexander G. Bassuk,
  • Benjamin W. Darbro,
  • Maria A. Fiatarone Singh,
  • Nicole Vlahovich,
  • David Hughes,
  • Maria Kozlovskaia,
  • David B. Ascher,
  • Klaus Warnatz,
  • Nils Venhoff,
  • Jens Thiel,
  • Christine Biben,
  • Stefan Blum,
  • John Reveille,
  • Michael S. Hildebrand,
  • Carola G. Vinuesa,
  • Pamela McCombe,
  • Matthew A. Brown,
  • Benjamin T. Kile,
  • Catriona McLean,
  • Melanie Bahlo,
  • Seth L. Masters,
  • Hiroyasu Nakano,
  • Polly J. Ferguson,
  • James M. Murphy,
  • Warren S. Alexander,
  • John Silke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16819-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Necroptosis is a regulated form of inflammatory cell death driven by activated MLKL. Here, the authors identify a mutation in the brace region that confers constitutive activation, leading to lethal inflammation in homozygous mutant mice and providing insight into human mutations in this region.