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Co-Culture of Murine Small Intestine Epithelial Organoids with Innate Lymphoid Cells
Published on: March 23, 2022
Necroptosis of Intestinal Epithelial Cells Induces Type 3 Innate Lymphoid Cell-Dependent Lethal Ileitis
Ryodai Shindo1, Masaki Ohmuraya2, Sachiko Komazawa-Sakon1
1Department of Biochemistry, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-8540, Japan.
Abstract:
A short form of cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein encoded by CFLARs promotes necroptosis. Although necroptosis is involved in various pathological conditions, the detailed mechanisms are not fully understood. Here we generated transgenic mice wherein CFLARs was integrated onto the X chromosome. All male CFLARs Tg mice died perinatally due to severe ileitis. Although necroptosis was observed in various tissues of CFLARs Tg mice, large numbers of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) died by apoptosis. Deletion of Ripk3 or Mlkl, essential genes of necroptosis, prevented both necroptosis and apoptosis, and rescued lethality of CFLARs Tg mice. Type 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) were activated and recruited to the small intestine along with upregulation of interleukin-22 (Il22) in CFLARs Tg mice. Deletion of ILC3s or Il22 rescued lethality of CFLARs Tg mice by preventing apoptosis, but not necroptosis of IECs. Together, necroptosis-dependent activation of ILC3s induces lethal ileitis in an IL-22-dependent manner.
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