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SCIENCE
Volume 340, Issue 6139, Pages 1456-1459Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1237013
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- Irvington Institute fellowship program of the Cancer Research Institute
- NIH National Research Service [1T32AI100853-01]
- Arthritis National Research Foundation
- National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH [5P30CA016087-32]
- NCI-NIH [5P30CA016087-33, P30 CA016087-30]
- National Center for Research Resources, NIH [UL1RR029893]
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Lymphocyte homing, which contributes to inflammation, has been studied extensively in the small intestine, but there is little known about homing to the large intestine, the site most commonly affected in inflammatory bowel disease. GPR15, an orphan heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptor, controlled the specific homing of T cells, particularly FOXP3(+) regulatory T cells (T-regs), to the large intestine lamina propria (LILP). GPR15 expression was modulated by gut microbiota and transforming growth factor-beta 1, but not by retinoic acid. GPR15-deficient mice were prone to develop more severe large intestine inflammation, which was rescued by the transfer of GPR15-sufficient T-regs. Our findings thus describe a T cell-homing receptor for LILP and indicate that GPR15 plays a role in mucosal immune tolerance largely by regulating the influx of T-regs.
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