bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/273623; this version posted February 28, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 RNASeq analysis identifies non-canonical role of STAT2 and IRF9 in 2 the regulation of a STAT1-independent antiviral and 3 immunoregulatory transcriptional program induced by IFNβ and 4 TNFα 5 6 Mélissa K. Mariani1, Pouria Dasmeh2,3, Audray Fortin1, Mario Kalamujic1, Elise Caron1, 7 Alexander N. Harrison1,4 Sandra Cervantes-Ortiz1,5, Espérance Mukawera1, Adrian W.R. 8 Serohijos2,3 and Nathalie Grandvaux1,2* 9 10 1 CRCHUM - Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada 11 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, 12 Qc, Canada. 13 3 Centre Robert Cedergren en Bioinformatique et Génomique, Université de Montréal, Qc, Canada 14 4 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Qc, Canada 15 5 Department of Microbiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de 16 Montréal, Qc, Canada 17 18 * Correspondence: 19 Corresponding Author 20
[email protected] 21 22 Keywords: Interferon β, TNFα, STAT1, STAT2, IRF9, antiviral, 23 24 Running title: STAT1-independent transcriptional response to IFNβ+TNFα 25 26 27 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/273623; this version posted February 28, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.