Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

TRIM40 is a pathogenic driver of inflammatory bowel disease subverting intestinal barrier integrity

  • Sujin Kang,
  • Jaekyung Kim,
  • Areum Park,
  • Minsoo Koh,
  • Wonji Shin,
  • Gayoung Park,
  • Taeyun A. Lee,
  • Hyung Jin Kim,
  • Heonjong Han,
  • Yongbo Kim,
  • Myung Kyung Choi,
  • Jae Hyung Park,
  • Eunhye Lee,
  • Hyun-Soo Cho,
  • Hyun Woo Park,
  • Jae Hee Cheon,
  • Sungwook Lee,
  • Boyoun Park

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36424-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The cortical actin cytoskeleton plays a role in maintaining intestinal epithelial integrity. Here the authors report that TRIM40, an E3 ligase, disrupts cortical actin formation and leads to loss of epithelial barrier integrity, and that genetic loss of TRIM40 is protective against experimental colitis in male mice.