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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21113-7
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- NIH [R01DK095004, R01DK119694, R01DK117119]
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
- CURE for IBD
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The loss of the intracellular signaling regulator Sprouty2 in intestinal epithelial cells is a protective response to injury that leads to increased secretory cell numbers, thus limiting the severity of colitis.
Dynamic regulation of intestinal cell differentiation is crucial for both homeostasis and the response to injury or inflammation. Sprouty2, an intracellular signaling regulator, controls pathways including PI3K and MAPKs that are implicated in differentiation and are dysregulated in inflammatory bowel disease. Here, we ask whether Sprouty2 controls secretory cell differentiation and the response to colitis. We report that colonic epithelial Sprouty2 deletion leads to expanded tuft and goblet cell populations. Sprouty2 loss induces PI3K/Akt signaling, leading to GSK3 beta inhibition and epithelial interleukin (IL)-33 expression. In vivo, this results in increased stromal IL-13+ cells. IL-13 in turn induces tuft and goblet cell expansion in vitro and in vivo. Sprouty2 is downregulated by acute inflammation; this appears to be a protective response, as VillinCre;Sprouty2(F/F) mice are resistant to DSS colitis. In contrast, Sprouty2 is elevated in chronic colitis and in colons of inflammatory bowel disease patients, suggesting that this protective epithelial-stromal signaling mechanism is lost in disease. Dynamic regulation of colonic secretory cell numbers is a critical component of the response to intestinal injury and inflammation. Here, the authors show that loss of the intracellular signalling regulator Sprouty2 in the intestinal epithelial cells is a protective response to injury that leads to increased secretory cell numbers, thus limiting colitis severity.
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