Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Activation of DR3 signaling causes loss of ILC3s and exacerbates intestinal inflammation

  • Jingyu Li,
  • Wenli Shi,
  • Hanxiao Sun,
  • Yan Ji,
  • Yuqin Chen,
  • Xiaohuan Guo,
  • Huiming Sheng,
  • Jie Shu,
  • Liang Zhou,
  • Ting Cai,
  • Ju Qiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11304-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) have important functions in inflammatory bowel disease. Here, the authors show that TL1A/DR3 signalling stimulates ILC3s to produce GM-CSF, thereby recruiting inflammatory cells, which results in subsequent IL-23-dependent loss of ILC3s and further intestinal inflammation.