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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 189, 期 6, 页码 2869-2878出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200420
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
- Program for Promotion of Basic and Applied Researches for Innovations in Bio-oriented Industry
- Osaka Foundation for the Promotion of Clinical Immunology
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24659217, 24390120, 23229004] Funding Source: KAKEN
Dietary compounds as well as commensal microbiota contribute to the generation of a unique gut environment. In this study, we report that dietary folic acid (FA) is required for the maintenance of Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the colon. Deficiency of FA in the diet resulted in marked reduction of Foxp3(+) Tregs selectively in the colon. Blockade of folate receptor 4 and treatment with methotrexate, which inhibits folate metabolic pathways, decreased colonic Foxp3(+) Tregs. Compared with splenic Tregs, colonic Tregs were more activated to proliferate vigorously and were highly sensitive to apoptosis. In colonic Tregs derived from mice fed with a FA-deficient diet, expression of anti-apoptotic molecules Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL was severely decreased. A general reduction of peripheral Tregs was induced by a neutralizing Ab against IL-2, but a further decrease by additional FA deficiency was observed exclusively in the colon. Mice fed with an FA-deficient diet exhibited higher susceptibility to intestinal inflammation. These findings reveal the previously unappreciated role of dietary FA in promotion of survival of Foxp3(+) Tregs that are in a highly activated state in the colon. The Journal of Immunology, 2012, 189: 2869-2878.
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