scholarly journals Type 3 innate lymphoid cells maintain intestinal epithelial stem cells after tissue damage

2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (11) ◽  
pp. 1783-1791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Aparicio-Domingo ◽  
Monica Romera-Hernandez ◽  
Julien J. Karrich ◽  
Ferry Cornelissen ◽  
Natalie Papazian ◽  
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Disruption of the intestinal epithelial barrier allows bacterial translocation and predisposes to destructive inflammation. To ensure proper barrier composition, crypt-residing stem cells continuously proliferate and replenish all intestinal epithelial cells within days. As a consequence of this high mitotic activity, mucosal surfaces are frequently targeted by anticancer therapies, leading to dose-limiting side effects. The cellular mechanisms that control tissue protection and mucosal healing in response to intestinal damage remain poorly understood. Type 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) are regulators of homeostasis and tissue responses to infection at mucosal surfaces. We now demonstrate that ILC3s are required for epithelial activation and proliferation in response to small intestinal tissue damage induced by the chemotherapeutic agent methotrexate. Multiple subsets of ILC3s are activated after intestinal tissue damage, and in the absence of ILC3s, epithelial activation is lost, correlating with increased pathology and severe damage to the intestinal crypts. Using ILC3-deficient Lgr5 reporter mice, we show that maintenance of intestinal stem cells after damage is severely impaired in the absence of ILC3s or the ILC3 signature cytokine IL-22. These data unveil a novel function of ILC3s in limiting tissue damage by preserving tissue-specific stem cells.

2015 ◽  
Vol 210 (7) ◽  
pp. 2107OIA193
Author(s):  
Patricia Aparicio-Domingo ◽  
Monica Romera-Hernandez ◽  
Julien J. Karrich ◽  
Ferry Cornelissen ◽  
Natalie Papazian ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 212 (10) ◽  
pp. 1513-1528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Giacomin ◽  
Ryan H. Moy ◽  
Mario Noti ◽  
Lisa C. Osborne ◽  
Mark C. Siracusa ◽  
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Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are critical for maintaining epithelial barrier integrity at mucosal surfaces; however, the tissue-specific factors that regulate ILC responses remain poorly characterized. Using mice with intestinal epithelial cell (IEC)–specific deletions in either inhibitor of κB kinase (IKK)α or IKKβ, two critical regulators of NFκB activation, we demonstrate that IEC-intrinsic IKKα expression selectively regulates group 3 ILC (ILC3)–dependent antibacterial immunity in the intestine. Although IKKβΔIEC mice efficiently controlled Citrobacter rodentium infection, IKKαΔIEC mice exhibited severe intestinal inflammation, increased bacterial dissemination to peripheral organs, and increased host mortality. Consistent with weakened innate immunity to C. rodentium, IKKαΔIEC mice displayed impaired IL-22 production by RORγt+ ILC3s, and therapeutic delivery of rIL-22 or transfer of sort-purified IL-22–competent ILCs from control mice could protect IKKαΔIEC mice from C. rodentium–induced morbidity. Defective ILC3 responses in IKKαΔIEC mice were associated with overproduction of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) by IECs, which negatively regulated IL-22 production by ILC3s and impaired innate immunity to C. rodentium. IEC-intrinsic IKKα expression was similarly critical for regulation of intestinal inflammation after chemically induced intestinal damage and colitis. Collectively, these data identify a previously unrecognized role for epithelial cell–intrinsic IKKα expression and TSLP in regulating ILC3 responses required to maintain intestinal barrier immunity.


2014 ◽  
Vol 211 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Serafini ◽  
Roel G.J. Klein Wolterink ◽  
Naoko Satoh-Takayama ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Christian A.J. Vosshenrich ◽  
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Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) include IL-22–producing NKp46+ cells and IL-17A/IL-22–producing CD4+ lymphoid tissue inducerlike cells that express RORγt and are implicated in protective immunity at mucosal surfaces. Whereas the transcription factor Gata3 is essential for T cell and ILC2 development from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and for IL-5 and IL-13 production by T cells and ILC2, the role for Gata3 in the generation or function of other ILC subsets is not known. We found that abundant GATA-3 protein is expressed in mucosa-associated ILC3 subsets with levels intermediate between mature B cells and ILC2. Chimeric mice generated with Gata3-deficient fetal liver hematopoietic precursors lack all intestinal RORγt+ ILC3 subsets, and these mice show defective production of IL-22 early after infection with the intestinal pathogen Citrobacter rodentium, leading to impaired survival. Further analyses demonstrated that ILC3 development requires cell-intrinsic Gata3 expression in fetal liver hematopoietic precursors. Our results demonstrate that Gata3 plays a generalized role in ILC lineage determination and is critical for the development of gut RORγt+ ILC3 subsets that maintain mucosal barrier homeostasis. These results further extend the paradigm of Gata3-dependent regulation of diversified innate ILC and adaptive T cell subsets.


2017 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 1156-1159.e7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuo Li ◽  
Hideaki Morita ◽  
Beate Rückert ◽  
Tadech Boonpiyathad ◽  
Avidan Neumann ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Petti ◽  
Giulia Rizzo ◽  
Federica Rubbino ◽  
Sudharshan Elangovan ◽  
Piergiuseppe Colombo ◽  
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Abstract BackgroundSphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2 (S1PR2) mediates pleiotropic functions encompassing cell proliferation, survival, and migration, which become collectively de-regulated in cancer. Information onto whether S1PR2 participates in colorectal carcinogenesis/cancer is scanty, and we set out to fill the gap.MethodsWe screened expression changes of S1PR2 in human CRC and matched normal mucosa specimens [N = 76]. We compared CRC arising in inflammation-driven and genetically engineered models in wild-type (S1PR2+/+) and S1PR2 deficient (S1PR2−/−) mice. We reconstituted S1PR2 expression in RKO cells and assessed their growth in xenografts. Functionally, we mimicked ablation of S1PR2 in normal mucosa by treating S1PR2+/+ organoids with JTE013, and characterized intestinal epithelial stem cells isolated from S1PR2−/−Lgr5-EGFP- mice.ResultsS1PR2 expression was lost in 33% of CRC; in 55%, it was significantly decreased, only 12% retaining expression comparable to normal mucosa. Both colitis-induced and genetic Apc+/min mouse models of CRC showed a higher incidence in size and number of carcinomas and/or high-grade adenomas, with increased cell proliferation in S1PR2−/− mice compared to S1PR2+/+ controls. Loss of S1PR2 impaired mucosal regeneration, ultimately promoting the expansion of intestinal stem cells. Whereas its overexpression attenuated cell cycle progression, it reduced the phosphorylation of AKT and augmented the levels of PTEN.ConclusionsIn normal colonic crypts, S1PR2 gains expression along with intestinal epithelial cells differentiation, but not in intestinal stem cells, and contrasts intestinal tumorigenesis by promoting epithelial differentiation, preventing the expansion of stem cells and braking their malignant transformation. Targeting of S1PR2 may be of therapeutic benefit for CRC expressing high Lgr5.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (426) ◽  
pp. ra46-ra46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Viant ◽  
Lucille C. Rankin ◽  
Mathilde J. H. Girard-Madoux ◽  
Cyril Seillet ◽  
Wei Shi ◽  
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Stroke ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathiresh Kumar Mani ◽  
Farida Sohrabji

Background: Nearly 50% of all stroke patients experience “leaky” gut, gut hemorrhage and gut epithelium damage. Gut leakiness may increase circulating inflammatory cytokines and other gut products such as endotoxins, which can impair stroke recovery. Here we tested the hypothesis that normalizing gut function via transplantation of intestinal epithelial stem cells (IESC) after stroke may stimulate repair of gut structures and improve stroke outcomes. Methods: Reproductive senescent female Sprague-Dawley rats used for this study and assigned to the following groups: Control (no stroke); stroke with sham transplant (vehicle); stroke with IESC transplantation. Rats were subjected to stereotaxic surgery to occlude the left middle cerebral artery by using Endothelin-1. Primary IECs were isolated from young female rats to prepare organoids cultures. Dissociated organoids were labeled with PKH26 and injected iv either once (48h after stroke) or 3 times (4h/24h/48h after stroke). Behavioral assays and saphenous blood draws were performed pre-stroke, 2d and 5d after stroke. Trunk blood, brain tissue and a segment of small intestine was collected at termination and processed for the expression of the stem cell marker Lgr5+, Na/K ATPase-α, and tight junction proteins. Results: Significant deterioration of the gut architecture was observed after stroke, including blunted or absent villi and irregular crypts. In animals that received PKH26-labeled organoid tranplants at 48h post stroke, labeled cells were seen in the center of the villus and a few organoid cells were immunositve for Lgr5+. Animals that received 3 organoid injections showed PKH26-labeled cells incorporated in both the villus and crypts. In these animals, villus were well formed and appeared no different from non-stroke controls. Sensory motor function assessed by adhesive removal test on the side contralateral to the infarction was severely impaired in the stroke/no transplant animals (120+secs/timed out), while this impairment was attenuated in the group that received 3 organoid injections (31±11 secs). Conclusion: These data suggest that transplantation of IESC after stroke may promote repair of gut villus and crypts, with a concomitant improvement in sensory motor function.


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