Dan Jane-Wit, Guiyu Song, Liying He, Quan Jiang, Mahsa Barkestani, Shaoxun Wang, Qianxun Wang, Pengwei Ren, Matthew Fan, Justin Johnson, Clancy Mullan
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Internalized pools of membrane attack complexes (MACs) promote NF-kB and dysregulated tissue inflammation. Here, we show that C9, a MAC-associated protein, promotes loss of proteostasis to become intrinsically immunogenic. Surface-bound C9 is internalized into Rab5 + endosomes whose intraluminal acidification promotes C9 aggregates. A region within the MACPF/CDC domain of C9 stimulates aggrephagy to induce NF-kB, inflammatory genes, and EC activation. This process requires ZFYVE21, a Rab5 effector, which links LC3A/B on aggresome membranes to RNF34-P62 complexes to mediate C9 aggrephagy. C9 aggregates form in human tissues, C9-associated signaling responses occur in three mouse models, and ZFYVE21 stabilizes RNF34 to promote C9 aggrephagy in vivo. Gene-deficient mice lacking ZFYVE21 in ECs showed reduced MAC-induced tissue injury in a skin model of chronic rejection. While classically defined as cytotoxic effectors, MACs may impair proteostasis, forming aggregates that behave as intracellular alarmins.