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ArticleCell host & microbe2022

Faecalibaculum rodentium remodels retinoic acid signaling to govern eosinophil-dependent intestinal epithelial homeostasis.

Y Grace Cao, Sena Bae, Jannely Villarreal, Madelyn Moy, Eunyoung Chun, Monia Michaud, Jessica K Lang, Jonathan N Glickman, Lior Lobel, Wendy S Garrett

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Y Grace CaoDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Sena BaeDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jannely VillarrealDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Madelyn MoyDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Eunyoung ChunDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Monia MichaudDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jessica K LangDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jonathan N GlickmanBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Lior LobelDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wendy S GarrettDepartments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard T.H. Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: wgarrett@hsph.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

A comprehensive platform for novel therapy development from the microbiomeR24DK110499 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI HUTTENHOWER, CURTIS · 2017 to 2021
$7.7M
Training Program in Immunological Tolerance and AutoimmunityT32AI118692 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PILLAI, SHIV SUBRAMANIAM · 2015 to 2019
$948k
Microbiota regulation of intestinal eosinophilsF31DK121375 · NIDDK · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI CAO, YIYUN GRACE · 2019 to 2022
$91k
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI118692NIDDK NIH HHS F31 DK121375NIDDK NIH HHS R24 DK110499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intestinal epithelium plays critical roles in sensing and integrating dietary and microbial signals. How microbiota and intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) interactions regulate host physiology in the proximal small intestine, particularly the duodenum, is unclear. Using single-cell RNA sequencing of duodenal IECs under germ-free (GF) and different conventional microbiota compositions, we show that specific microbiota members alter epithelial homeostasis by increasing epithelial turnover rate, crypt proliferation, and major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) expression. Microbiome profiling identified Faecalibaculum rodentium as a key species involved in this regulation. F. rodentium decreases enterocyte expression of retinoic-acid-producing enzymes Adh1, Aldh1a1, and Rdh7, reducing retinoic acid signaling required to maintain certain intestinal eosinophil populations. Eosinophils suppress intraepithelial-lymphocyte-mediated production of interferon-γ that regulates epithelial cell function. Thus, we identify a retinoic acid-eosinophil-interferon-γ-dependent circuit by which the microbiota modulates duodenal epithelial homeostasis.

Indexed as

EosinophilsTretinoinBacillotaCitrobacter rodentiumEpithelial CellsHomeostasisInterferon-gammaIntestinal MucosaInterferon-gammaTretinoinduodenumeosinophilFaecalibaculum rodentiuminterferon-γintestinal epithelial cellmicrobiotaretinoic acidsmall intestine

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