Nature Communications (May 2021)

Critical role of interferons in gastrointestinal injury repair

  • Constance McElrath,
  • Vanessa Espinosa,
  • Jian-Da Lin,
  • Jianya Peng,
  • Raghavendra Sridhar,
  • Orchi Dutta,
  • Hsiang-Chi Tseng,
  • Sergey V. Smirnov,
  • Heidi Risman,
  • Marvin J. Sandoval,
  • Viralkumar Davra,
  • Yun-Juan Chang,
  • Brian P. Pollack,
  • Raymond B. Birge,
  • Mark Galan,
  • Amariliz Rivera,
  • Joan E. Durbin,
  • Sergei V. Kotenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22928-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Despite being prevalent yet well studied, ulcerative colitis still has poorly characterized pathophysiology. Here the authors use mouse colitis models to find that type I and III interferon (IFN) both contribute to ameliorating the disease, with IFN signaling in either the epithelial or hematopoietic compartment sufficient for this protective effect.