T Cell Recruitment to the Intestinal Stem Cell Compartment Drives Immune-Mediated Intestinal Damage after Allogeneic Transplantation. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The key sites within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract where T cells mediate effector responses and the impact of these responses on intestinal stem cells (ISCs) remain unclear. Using experimental bone marrow transplantation to model immune-mediated GI damage and 3D imaging to analyze T cell localization, we found that the ISC compartment is the primary intestinal site targeted by T cells after transplantation. Recruitment to the crypt base region resulted in direct T cell engagement with the stem cell compartment and loss of crypt base columnar ISCs, which expressed both MHC classes I and II. Vasculature expressing the adhesion molecule MAdCAM-1 clustered near the crypt base, preferentially regulating crypt compartment invasion and ISC reduction without affecting T cell migration to villi. These findings indicate that allogeneic T cells rapidly access the stem cell niche after transplantation, and this targeted recruitment to the stem cell compartment results in ISC loss during immune-mediated GI damage.

publication date

  • July 2, 2019

Research

keywords

  • Adult Stem Cells
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Intestinal Mucosa
  • Stem Cell Niche
  • T-Lymphocytes

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7239328

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85068662217

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.06.003

PubMed ID

  • 31278057

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 51

issue

  • 1