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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13096
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- Wellcome Trust [101067/Z/13/Z]
- Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Health [G1002033]
- Paul Calabresi Career Development Award [5K12CA132783, K01DK096032]
- ACS IRG Pilot
- KUCC [1U19 AI091175, 1U01 DK103155]
- MRC [MR/N022556/1, G1002033] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G1002033, MR/N022556/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Wellcome Trust [101067/Z/13/Z] Funding Source: researchfish
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WNT/beta-catenin signalling is crucial for intestinal homoeostasis. The intestinal epithelium and stroma are the major source of WNT ligands but their origin and role in intestinal stem cell (ISC) and epithelial repair remains unknown. Macrophages are a major constituent of the intestinal stroma. Here, we analyse the role of macrophage-derived WNT in intestinal repair in mice by inhibiting their release using a macrophage-restricted ablation of Porcupine, a gene essential for WNT synthesis. Such Porcn-depleted mice have normal intestinal morphology but are hypersensitive to radiation injury in the intestine compared with wild-type (WT) littermates. Porcn-null mice are rescued from radiation lethality by treatment with WT but not Porcn-null bone marrow macrophage-conditioned medium (CM). Depletion of extracellular vesicles (EV) from the macrophage CM removes WNT function and its ability to rescue ISCs from radiation lethality. Therefore macrophage-derived EV-packaged WNTs are essential for regenerative response of intestine against radiation.
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