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  • Diet-mediated constitutive ...
    Cui, Wanlin; Nagano, Yuji; Morita, Satoru; Tanoue, Takeshi; Yamane, Hidehiro; Ishikawa, Keiko; Sato, Toshiro; Kubo, Masato; Hori, Shohei; Taniguchi, Tadatsugu; Hatakeyama, Masanori; Atarashi, Koji; Honda, Kenya

    The Journal of experimental medicine, 08/2023, Letnik: 220, Številka: 8
    Journal Article

    Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) expressing IL-5 and IL-13 are localized at various mucosal tissues and play critical roles in the induction of type 2 inflammation, response to helminth infection, and tissue repair. Here, we reveal a unique ILC2 subset in the mouse intestine that constitutively expresses IL-4 together with GATA3, ST2, KLRG1, IL-17RB, and IL-5. In this subset, IL-4 expression is regulated by mechanisms similar to but distinct from those observed in T cells and is partly affected by IL-25 signaling. Although the absence of the microbiota had marginal effects, feeding mice with a vitamin B1-deficient diet compromised the number of intestinal IL-4+ ILC2s. The decrease in the number of IL-4+ ILC2s caused by the vitamin B1 deficiency was accompanied by a reduction in IL-25-producing tuft cells. Our findings reveal that dietary vitamin B1 plays a critical role in maintaining interaction between tuft cells and IL-4+ ILC2s, a previously uncharacterized immune cell population that may contribute to maintaining intestinal homeostasis.