Nature Communications (May 2016)

ISG15 deficiency and increased viral resistance in humans but not mice

  • Scott D. Speer,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Sofija Buta,
  • Béatrice Payelle-Brogard,
  • Li Qian,
  • Frederic Vigant,
  • Erminia Rubino,
  • Thomas J. Gardner,
  • Tim Wedeking,
  • Mark Hermann,
  • James Duehr,
  • Ozden Sanal,
  • Ilhan Tezcan,
  • Nahal Mansouri,
  • Payam Tabarsi,
  • Davood Mansouri,
  • Véronique Francois-Newton,
  • Coralie F. Daussy,
  • Marisela R. Rodriguez,
  • Deborah J. Lenschow,
  • Alexander N. Freiberg,
  • Domenico Tortorella,
  • Jacob Piehler,
  • Benhur Lee,
  • Adolfo García-Sastre,
  • Sandra Pellegrini,
  • Dusan Bogunovic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11496
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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ISG15 is a ubiquitin-like protein which has important immune-related functions in mice and humans. Here the authors demonstrate that, unlike in mice, human ISG15 stabilizes UPS18 and that ISG15-deficient human cells are more resistant to viral infection.