Details Unfold: The Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response in Intestinal Inflammation and Cancer
Details Unfold: The Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response in Intestinal Inflammation and Cancer
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细节揭晓:肠道炎症和癌症中的内质网应激反应
DOI:
10.1053/j.gastro.2014.06.013
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发表时间:
2014
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29.4
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Parker A
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Parker A
Following intestinal injury and epithelial cell loss, rapid regeneration of the epithelium is essential to maintain barrier integrity and host defence. However, an unrestrained proliferative response to injury may promote the development of intestinal tumours. Accumulating evidence reveals links between intestinal inflammation, tumourigenesis, and defects in cellular stress response mechanisms such as the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response. Accumulation of aberrant proteins in the ER resulting from inflammation, infection, injury or high protein turnover triggers a set of stress response signalling pathways collectively termed the unfolded protein response (UPR). Activation of UPR pathways leads to upregulation of various mechanisms to restore cellular homeostasis or induce apoptosis if stress remains unresolved. An effective UPR is therefore particularly important for maintaining homeostasis in the intestinal epithelium, which is a site of frequent inflammation and injury and which contains cells with high protein turnover such as secretory goblet cells and Paneth cells. Genetic variants of UPR pathway components are known to confer risk to inflammatory bowel disease, including colitis-associated cancer (CAC) and colorectal cancer (CRC). In the paper here discussed, Niederreiter and colleagues explore the mechanism for this association, finding that the transcription factor X-box binding protein 1 (Xbp1), an effector of the UPR, acts to regulate local inflammation during ER-stress and restricts proliferative and regenerative responses to inhibit intestinal tumour development and progression (J Exp Med. 2013 210 (10): 2041-56).Under conditions of ER-stress, the transcription factor Xbp1 initiates cytoprotective responses including upregulation of protein chaperones and enhanced ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD) to restore cellular homeostasis. To explore the specific role of the UPR in intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), Kaser and colleagues had previously generated a transgenic mouse model mimicking ER-stress in intestinal epithelia by targeted deletion of Xbp1. Xbp1 knockout in mouse IECs disrupts the UPR and results in spontaneous enteritis and increased susceptibility to induced colitis (Cell 2008, 134: 743-756).