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Role of IRF8 in immune cells functions, protection against infections, and susceptibility to inflammatory diseases

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The transcription factor IRF8 (ICSBP) is required for the development and maturation of myeloid cells (dendritic cells, monocytes, macrophages), and for expression of intrinsic anti-microbial function such as antigen capture, processing and presentation to lymphoid cells, and for activation of these cells in response to cytokines and pro-inflammatory stimuli (IFN-γ, IFN-β, LPS). IRF8 deficiency in humans causes a severe primary immunodeficiency presenting as susceptibility to infections, complete or severe depletion of blood dendritic cells (DC) subsets, depletion of CD14+ and CD16+ monocytes and reduced numbers and impaired activity of NK cells. In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), sequence variants near IRF8 are significant risk factors for multiple chronic inflammatory diseases in humans including inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and several others. Recent studies have cataloged all the genes bound by and transcriptionally activated by IRF8 in myeloid cells, either alone or in combination with other transcription factors (PU.1, IRF1, STAT1) at steady state and in response to pro-inflammatory stimuli. This IRF1/IRF8 regulome comprises immune pathways such as antigen processing and presentation pathways, expression of costimulatory molecules, cytokines and chemokines, response to stimuli such as cytokine receptors, pathogen-associated molecular pattern receptors, TLRs and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor signaling pathways, and small antiviral GTPases. Members of the IRF8/IRF1 regulome are over-represented amongst genes in which mutations cause primary immunodeficiencies, and are specifically enriched at GWAS loci associated with chronic inflammatory diseases in humans. These recent studies highlight a critical role of IRF8 in the activity of several immune cell types for protection against infections, but also in pathological inflammation associated with common human inflammatory conditions.

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This work was supported by a research grant to PG from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Foundation grant). PG is supported by a salary award from McGill University (Distinguished James McGill Professor).

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Salem, S., Salem, D. & Gros, P. Role of IRF8 in immune cells functions, protection against infections, and susceptibility to inflammatory diseases. Hum Genet 139, 707–721 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-020-02154-2

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