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ArticleNature communications2025

Elevated nitric oxide during colitis restrains GM-CSF production in ILC3 cells via suppressing an AhR-Cyp4f13-NF-κB axis.

Xingyu Zhao, Jun Li, Yime Zhang, Luni Hu, Di Wu, Jiayu Wu, Ruiqing Lyu, Peng Li, Gao An, Rongli Cui and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Xingyu Zhao *Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Researches on Major Immunology-Related Diseases, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Jun Li *Department of Gastroenterology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Yime Zhang *Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Researches on Major Immunology-Related Diseases, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Luni HuInstitute of Systems Biomedicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China.
Di WuInstitute of Systems Biomedicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China.
Jiayu WuDepartment of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Researches on Major Immunology-Related Diseases, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Ruiqing LyuDepartment of Biophysics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Peng LiDepartment of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Researches on Major Immunology-Related Diseases, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Gao AnInstitute of Systems Biomedicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China.
Rongli CuiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Tao SunGeneral Surgery Department, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Pingping ZhuSchool of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8009-2923
Lin BaiDepartment of Biophysics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Changtao JiangDepartment of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Researches on Major Immunology-Related Diseases, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Chao ZhongDepartment of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Researches on Major Immunology-Related Diseases, Peking University, Beijing, China. zhongc@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1744-6378

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) U23A20167, 32170896, 31770957, 91842102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) presents a significant clinical challenge, yet the way bioactive gases are implicated remains elusive. We detect elevated colonic Nos2 levels in both IBD patients and mice undergoing diverse colitis. Additionally, Nos2 deficiency significantly aggravates anti-CD40-induced colitis, along with an increase in GM-CSF production by ILC3s. We identified a previously unappreciated role of the crucial ILC3 regulator, AhR, in promoting Cyp4f13 expression to allow ILC3s to bind with externally derived nitric oxide (NO). This further restrains Cyp4f13-catalyzed ROS generation and thereby diminishes NF-κB activation strictly necessary for GM-CSF production. Accordingly, the exacerbated anti-CD40-induced colitis due to defective NO generation in Nos2 deficient mice is efficiently recovered by a Cyp4f13 inhibitor, HET0016. Importantly, IBD patients with elevated NO binding to colonic ILC3s show decreased disease activity. Thus, our findings uncover a crucial regulatory mechanism for restraining colitogenic GM-CSF production in ILC3s and underscores its implication in IBD therapy.

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ColitisCytochrome P450 Family 4Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorNF-kappa BNitric OxideReceptors, Aryl HydrocarbonAnimalsColonFemaleHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutNitric Oxide Synthase Type IICytochrome P450 Family 4Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorNF-kappa BNitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type IINos2 protein, mouseReactive Oxygen SpeciesReceptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon

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PMCPMC12216831

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