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Colonic Engyodontium fungus triggers neutrophil antimicrobial activity to suppress Lactobacillus johnsonii-derived glutamic acid-maintained Tregs
Xinying Wang, Haiyang Sun, Ying Tan, Shaoting Xu, Zishan Liu, Kaile Ji, Ding Qiu, Jianping Deng, Bingbing Feng, Xueting Wu, Yoichiro Iwakura, Minhu Chen, Rui Feng, Chanyan Huang, Ce Tang
Xinying Wang, Haiyang Sun, Ying Tan, Shaoting Xu, Zishan Liu, Kaile Ji, Ding Qiu, Jianping Deng, Bingbing Feng, Xueting Wu, Yoichiro Iwakura, Minhu Chen, Rui Feng, Chanyan Huang, Ce Tang
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Colonic Engyodontium fungus triggers neutrophil antimicrobial activity to suppress Lactobacillus johnsonii-derived glutamic acid-maintained Tregs

Abstract

Isolating commensal fungi from mouse intestines has been challenging, limiting our understanding of their role in intestinal immune homeostasis and diseases. Using an Fc fusion protein of the C-type lectin Dectin-2, we successfully purified the commensal Ascomycota fungus Engyodontium sp. from mouse feces. Engyodontium enhances the antimicrobial activity of colonic neutrophils via CARD9 pathway, and exacerbates colitis by impairing the colonization of intestinal Lactobacillus johnsonii (L. johnsonii) WXY strain. L. johnsonii produces high levels of L-glutamic acid by expressing the glutaminase-encoding gene glsA to facilitate Treg expansion via enhancing IL-2 receptor signaling. Patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis harbored increased Engyodontium and decreased L. johnsonii abundance. Engyodontium directly induced calprotectin in human colonic neutrophils, and CD patients exhibited lower levels of L-glutamic acid which also promoted human Treg expansion. These findings highlight the Engyodontium-calprotectin axis against the Lactobacillus-glutamate-Treg cascade to aggravate colitis, suggesting commensal Engyodontium-triggered signaling as a therapeutic target for mucosal inflammatory diseases.

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Xinying Wang, Haiyang Sun, Ying Tan, Shaoting Xu, Zishan Liu, Kaile Ji, Ding Qiu, Jianping Deng, Bingbing Feng, Xueting Wu, Yoichiro Iwakura, Minhu Chen, Rui Feng, Chanyan Huang, Ce Tang

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