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CELL METABOLISM
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 477-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.06.016
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- NIH [R01AR042527, R01HL117913, R01AI108906, P01HL129941, R01AI108891, R01AG045779, I01BX001669, R01AI129191]
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In the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA), CD4(+) T cells promote pro-inflammatory effector functions by shunting glucose away from glycolysis and ATP production. Underlying mechanisms remain unknown, and here we implicate the DNA repair nuclease MRE11A in the cells' bioenergetic failure. MRE11A deficiency in RA T cells disrupted mitochondrial oxygen consumption and suppressed ATP generation. Also, MRE11A loss of function caused leakage of mitochondria! DNA (mtDNA) into the cytosol, triggering inflammasome assembly, caspase-1 activation, and pyroptotic cell death. Caspase-1 activation was frequent in lymph-node-residing T cells in RA patients. In vivo, pharmacologic and genetic inhibition of MRE11A resulted in tissue deposition of mtDNA, caspase-1 proteolysis, and aggressive tissue inflammation. Conversely, MRE11A overexpression restored mitochondria! fitness and shielded tissue from inflammatory attack. Thus, the nuclease MRE11A regulates a mitochondria, protection program, and MRE11A deficiency leads to DNA repair defects, energy production, and failure and loss of tissue homeostasis.
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