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Parasitic helminths induce fetal-like reversion in the intestinal stem cell niche.

Authors: Nusse, Ysbrand M  Savage, Adam K  Marangoni, Pauline  Rosendahl-Huber, Axel K M  Landman, Tyler A  de Sauvage, Frederic J  Locksley, Richard M  Klein, Ophir D 
Citation: Nusse YM, etal., Nature. 2018 Jul;559(7712):109-113. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0257-1. Epub 2018 Jun 27.
RGD ID: 14974257
Pubmed: PMID:29950724   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC6042247   (View Article at PubMed Central)
DOI: DOI:10.1038/s41586-018-0257-1   (Journal Full-text)

Epithelial surfaces form critical barriers to the outside world and are continuously renewed by adult stem cells1. Whereas dynamics of epithelial stem cells during homeostasis are increasingly well understood, how stem cells are redirected from a tissue-maintenance program to initiate repair after injury remains unclear. Here we examined infection by Heligmosomoides polygyrus, a co-evolved pathosymbiont of mice, to assess the epithelial response to disruption of the mucosal barrier. H. polygyrus disrupts tissue integrity by penetrating the duodenal mucosa, where it develops while surrounded by a multicellular granulomatous infiltrate2. Crypts overlying larvae-associated granulomas did not express intestinal stem cell markers, including Lgr53, in spite of continued epithelial proliferation. Granuloma-associated Lgr5- crypt epithelium activated an interferon-gamma (IFN-γ)-dependent transcriptional program, highlighted by Sca-1 expression, and IFN-γ-producing immune cells were found in granulomas. A similar epithelial response accompanied systemic activation of immune cells, intestinal irradiation, or ablation of Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells. When cultured in vitro, granuloma-associated crypt cells formed spheroids similar to those formed by fetal epithelium, and a sub-population of H. polygyrus-induced cells activated a fetal-like transcriptional program, demonstrating that adult intestinal tissues can repurpose aspects of fetal development. Therefore, re-initiation of the developmental program represents a fundamental mechanism by which the intestinal crypt can remodel itself to sustain function after injury.



RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
IFNGHumanIntestinal Helminthiasis  ISOIfng (Mus musculus) RGD 
IfngRatIntestinal Helminthiasis  ISOIfng (Mus musculus) RGD 
IfngMouseIntestinal Helminthiasis  IMP  RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Ifng  (interferon gamma)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Ifng  (interferon gamma)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
IFNG  (interferon gamma)


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