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  2. Scribble deficiency mediates colon inflammation by inhibiting autophagy-dependent oxidative stress elimination

Scribble deficiency mediates colon inflammation by inhibiting autophagy-dependent oxidative stress elimination

  • Sci Rep. 2023 Oct 26;13(1):18327. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-45176-2.
Xia Sun # 1 Liying Lu # 1 Kai Wang 2 Lele Song 1 Jiazheng Jiao Yanjun Wu 1 Xinyu Wang 1 Yanan Song 1 Lixing Zhan 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 CAS Key Laboratory of Nutrition, Metabolism and Food Safety, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
  • 2 Key Laboratory of Integrated Oncology and Intelligent Medicine of Zhejiang Province, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, China.
  • 3 CAS Key Laboratory of Nutrition, Metabolism and Food Safety, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. lxzhan@sibs.ac.cn.
  • # Contributed equally.
Abstract

Scribble is a master scaffold protein in apical-basal polarity. Current knowledge about the biological function of Scribble in colonic epithelial plasticity/regeneration during intestinal inflammation is limited. Here, we showed that the level of Scribble is decreased in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients and mice with DSS-induced colitis. ScribΔIEC mice develops severe acute colitis with disrupted epithelial barrier integrity and impaired crypt stem cell's function. Mechanistically, Scribble suppressed the process of Autophagy by modulating the stability of caspase-dependent degradation of Atg16L1 by directly interacting with Atg16L1 in a LRR domain-dependent manner in IECs and led to an accumulation of ROS both in intestinal stem cells and epithelial cells. In addition, further study indicates that dietary sphingomyelin alleviates DSS-induced colitis by increase the expression of Scribble, which suggests that Scribble may be the critical marker of IBD. Our study shows that Scribble deficiency is associated with the dysregulated Autophagy and impaired maintenance of colonic stemness, and it may be a target for diagnosis and treatment of IBD.

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