Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Single-cell analyses of Crohn’s disease tissues reveal intestinal intraepithelial T cells heterogeneity and altered subset distributions

  • Natalia Jaeger,
  • Ramya Gamini,
  • Marina Cella,
  • Jorge L. Schettini,
  • Mattia Bugatti,
  • Shanrong Zhao,
  • Charles V. Rosadini,
  • Ekaterina Esaulova,
  • Blanda Di Luccia,
  • Baylee Kinnett,
  • William Vermi,
  • Maxim N. Artyomov,
  • Thomas A. Wynn,
  • Ramnik J. Xavier,
  • Scott A. Jelinsky,
  • Marco Colonna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22164-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Crohn’s disease results from transmural inflammation in the gut, but analyses of local immune populations are still lacking. Here, the authors show, by combining multiple single-cell approaches, that intraepithelial and lamina propria T cells are heterogenous, show unique phenotypes, and exhibit altered subsets upon inflammation.