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CELL
Volume 183, Issue 3, Pages 666-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.009
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- Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust [G-2019PG-CD012]
- National Institutes of Health [R01DK123446]
- [U01DK062413]
- [P01DK046763]
- [1F30CA243480-01A1]
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A mysterious feature of Crohn's disease (CD) is the extra-intestinal manifestation of creeping fat (CrF), defined as expansion of mesenteric adipose tissue around the inflamed and fibrotic intestine. In the current study, we explore whether microbial translocation in CD serves as a central cue for CrF development. We discovered a subset of mucosal-associated gut bacteria that consistently translocated and remained viable in CrF in CD ileal surgical resections, and identified Clostridium innocuum as a signature of this consortium with strain variation between mucosal and adipose isolates, suggesting preference for lipid-rich environments. Single-cell RNA sequencing characterized CrF as both pro-fibrotic and pro-adipogenic with a rich milieu of activated immune cells responding to microbial stimuli, which we confirm in gnotobiotic mice colonized with C. innocuum. Ex vivo validation of expression patterns suggests C. innocuum stimulates tissue remodeling via M2 macrophages, leading to an adipose tissue barrier that serves to prevent systemic dissemination of bacteria.
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