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STEM CELL REPORTS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 127-134Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2013.12.012
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- National Institute of Health [R01DK081113, R01DK082889]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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Wnt signaling is a crucial aspect of the intestinal stem cell niche required for crypt cell proliferation and differentiation. Paneth cells or subepithelial myofibroblasts are leading candidate sources of the required Wnt ligands, but this has not been tested in vivo. To abolish Wnt-ligand secretion, we used Porcupine (Porcn) conditional-null mice crossed to strains expressing inducible Cre recombinase in the epithelium, including Paneth cells (Villin-Cre(ERT2)); in smooth muscle, including subepithelial myofibroblasts (Myh11-Cre(ERT2)); and simultaneously in both compartments. Elimination of Wnt secretion from any of these compartments did not disrupt tissue morphology, cell proliferation, differentiation, or Wnt pathway activity. Thus, Wnt-ligand secretion from these cell populations is dispensable for intestinal homeostasis, revealing that a minor cell type or significant and unexpected redundancy is responsible for physiologic Wnt signaling in vivo.
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