Back

Pathobiont-triggered induction of epithelial IDO1 drives regional susceptibility to Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Spencer, P. N.; Wang, J.; Smith, E. P.; Spiga, L.; Simmons, A. J.; Kim, T.; Kim, W.; Brown, M. E.; Yang, Y.; Kaur, H.; Xu, Y.; Kang, S. W.; Helou, M. D.; Lee, M. A.; Zheng, L.; Arceneaux, D.; Tasneem, N.; Mueller, K. D.; Kuddar, O. S.; Harned, M. H.; Ro, J.; Li, J.; Banerjee, A.; Markham, N. O.; Wilson, K. T.; Coburn, L. A.; Goettel, J. A.; Liu, Q.; Washington, M. K.; Valdivia, R. H.; Zhu, W.; Lau, K. S.

2025-01-04 cell biology
10.1101/2025.01.04.630951 bioRxiv
Show abstract

The structure and function of the mammalian gut vary by region, yet why inflammatory diseases manifest in specific regions and not others remains unclear. We use a TNF-overexpressing Crohns disease (CD) model (Tnf{Delta}ARE/+), which typically presents in the terminal ileum (TI), to investigate how environmental factors interact with the hosts immune susceptibility to drive region-specific disease. We identified Chlamydia muridarum, an intracellular bacterium and murine counterpart to the human sexually transmitted C. trachomatis, as necessary and sufficient to trigger disease manifestation in the ascending colon (AC), another common site of human CD. Disease manifestation in the AC depends on indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) activity induced by hypersensitive surface secretory cells in genetically susceptible hosts. Single-cell and microbial analyses of human specimens also implicates this pathobiont-epithelial IDO1 pathway in patients with a history of CD in the AC. Our findings demonstrate that genetic and microbial factors can independently drive region-specific disease and provide a unique model to study CD specific to the AC.

Matching journals

The top 6 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.