Journal
SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 307-319Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-013-0377-5
Keywords
Unfolded protein response (UPR); Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress; Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
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Funding
- European Research Council under the European Community [260961]
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust
- NIH [DK044319, DK051362, DK053056, DK088199]
- Harvard Digestive Diseases Center (HDDC) [DK0034854]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [R01DK053056, R01DK044319, R37DK044319, R01DK088199, P30DK034854, R01DK051362] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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As the inner lining of the gastrointestinal tract, the intestinal epithelium serves an essential role in innate immune function at the interface between the host and microbiota. Given the unique environmental challenges and thus physiologic secretory functions of this surface, it is exquisitely sensitive to perturbations that affect its capacity to resolve endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Genetic deletion of factors involved in the unfolded protein response (UPR), which functions in the resolution of ER stress that arises from misfolded proteins, result in spontaneous intestinal inflammation closely mimicking human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This is demonstrated by observations wherein deletion of genes such as Xbp1 and Agr2 profoundly affects the intestinal epithelium and results in spontaneous intestinal inflammation. Moreover, both genes, along with others (e.g., ORDML3) represent genetic risk factors for human IBD, both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Here, we review the current mechanistic understanding for how unresolved ER stress can lead to intestinal inflammation and highlight the findings that implicate ER stress as a genetically affected biological pathway in IBD. We further discuss environmental and microbial factors that might impact on the epithelium's capacity to resolve ER stress and which may constitute exogenous factors that may precipitate disease in genetically susceptible individuals.
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