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Zhou, Lei; Chu, Coco; Teng, Fei; Bessman, Nicholas J; Goc, Jeremy; Santosa, Endi K; Putzel, Gregory G; Kabata, Hiroki; Kelsen, Judith R; Baldassano, Robert N; Shah, Manish A; Sockolow, Robbyn E; Vivier, Eric; Eberl, Gérard; Smith, Kendall A; Sonnenberg, Gregory F
Nature (London), 04/2019, Volume: 568, Issue: 7752Journal Article
Interleukin (IL)-2 is a pleiotropic cytokine that is necessary to prevent chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract . The protective effects of IL-2 involve the generation, maintenance and function of regulatory T (T ) cells , and the use of low doses of IL-2 has emerged as a potential therapeutic strategy for patients with inflammatory bowel disease . However, the cellular and molecular pathways that control the production of IL-2 in the context of intestinal health are undefined. Here we show, in a mouse model, that IL-2 is acutely required to maintain T cells and immunological homeostasis throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Notably, lineage-specific deletion of IL-2 in T cells did not reduce T cells in the small intestine. Unbiased analyses revealed that, in the small intestine, group-3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) are the dominant cellular source of IL-2, which is induced selectively by IL-1β. Macrophages in the small intestine produce IL-1β, and activation of this pathway involves MYD88- and NOD2-dependent sensing of the microbiota. Our loss-of-function studies show that ILC3-derived IL-2 is essential for maintaining T cells, immunological homeostasis and oral tolerance to dietary antigens in the small intestine. Furthermore, production of IL-2 by ILC3s was significantly reduced in the small intestine of patients with Crohn's disease, and this correlated with lower frequencies of T cells. Our results reveal a previously unappreciated pathway in which a microbiota- and IL-1β-dependent axis promotes the production of IL-2 by ILC3s to orchestrate immune regulation in the intestine.
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