Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Intestinal non-canonical NFκB signaling shapes the local and systemic immune response

  • Sadeesh K. Ramakrishnan,
  • Huabing Zhang,
  • Xiaoya Ma,
  • Inkyung Jung,
  • Andrew J. Schwartz,
  • Daniel Triner,
  • Samantha N. Devenport,
  • Nupur K. Das,
  • Xiang Xue,
  • Melody Y. Zeng,
  • Yinling Hu,
  • Richard M. Mortensen,
  • Joel K Greenson,
  • Marilia Cascalho,
  • Christiane E. Wobus,
  • Justin A. Colacino,
  • Gabriel Nunez,
  • Liangyou Rui,
  • Yatrik M. Shah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08581-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Microfold cells (M-cell) are specialized cells of the intestine that sample luminal microbiota and dietary antigens. Here the authors show that epithelial non-canonical NFκB signalling, as induced by NIK, is important for M-cells maintenance, yet constitutive NIK activation is associated with gut inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease.