Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut.

TitleSpatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2024
AuthorsMayassi T, Li C, Segerstolpe Å, Brown EM, Weisberg R, Nakata T, Yano H, Herbst P, Artis D, Graham DB, Xavier RJ
JournalNature
Volume636
Issue8042
Pagination447-456
Date Published2024 Dec
ISSN1476-4687
KeywordsAdaptation, Physiological, Animals, Colon, Female, Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Gene Expression Profiling, Germ-Free Life, Inflammation, Intestinal Mucosa, Intestines, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, RNA-Seq
Abstract

The intestine is characterized by an environment in which host requirements for nutrient and water absorption are consequently paired with the requirements to establish tolerance to the outside environment. To better understand how the intestine functions in health and disease, large efforts have been made to characterize the identity and composition of cells from different intestinal regions1-8. However, the robustness, nature of adaptability and extent of resilience of the transcriptional landscape and cellular underpinning of the intestine in space are still poorly understood. Here we generated an integrated resource of the spatial and cellular landscape of the murine intestine in the steady and perturbed states. Leveraging these data, we demonstrated that the spatial landscape of the intestine was robust to the influence of the microbiota and was adaptable in a spatially restricted manner. Deploying a model of spatiotemporal acute inflammation, we demonstrated that both robust and adaptable features of the landscape were resilient. Moreover, highlighting the physiological relevance and value of our dataset, we identified a region of the middle colon characterized by an immune-driven multicellular spatial adaptation of structural cells to the microbiota. Our results demonstrate that intestinal regionalization is characterized by robust and resilient structural cell states and that the intestine can adapt to environmental stress in a spatially controlled manner through the crosstalk between immunity and structural cell homeostasis.

DOI10.1038/s41586-024-08216-z
Alternate JournalNature
PubMed ID39567686
PubMed Central IDPMC11816900
Grant ListP30 DK043351 / DK / NIDDK NIH HHS / United States
RC2 DK135492 / DK / NIDDK NIH HHS / United States