Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Dietary lipids fuel GPX4-restricted enteritis resembling Crohn’s disease

  • Lisa Mayr,
  • Felix Grabherr,
  • Julian Schwärzler,
  • Isabelle Reitmeier,
  • Felix Sommer,
  • Thomas Gehmacher,
  • Lukas Niederreiter,
  • Gui-Wei He,
  • Barbara Ruder,
  • Kai T. R. Kunz,
  • Piotr Tymoszuk,
  • Richard Hilbe,
  • David Haschka,
  • Clemens Feistritzer,
  • Romana R. Gerner,
  • Barbara Enrich,
  • Nicole Przysiecki,
  • Markus Seifert,
  • Markus A. Keller,
  • Georg Oberhuber,
  • Susanne Sprung,
  • Qitao Ran,
  • Robert Koch,
  • Maria Effenberger,
  • Ivan Tancevski,
  • Heinz Zoller,
  • Alexander R. Moschen,
  • Günter Weiss,
  • Christoph Becker,
  • Philip Rosenstiel,
  • Arthur Kaser,
  • Herbert Tilg,
  • Timon E. Adolph

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15646-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Dietary lipids are linked to the development of inflammatory bowel diseases through unclear mechanisms. Here, the authors report that dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids trigger intestinal inflammation resembling aspects of Crohn’s disease, which is restricted by glutathione peroxidase 4 in the intestinal epithelium.