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Mechanisms of Adult Taste Bud Regeneration

成人味蕾再生的机制

基本信息

批准号：
8279052
负责人：
Linda A Barlow
金额：
$ 30.53万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-03-01 至 2017-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8279052
关键词：
Adopted Adult Affect Cell Cycle Cell Cycle Kinetics Cell Differentiation process Cell Lineage Cell Proliferation Cells Complement 3 Cytokeratin Data Development Diet Eating Embryo Epidermis Epithelial Epithelial Cells Epithelium Figs - dietary Functional disorder Genetic Goals Health Homeostasis Human Individual Life Longevity Mammals Maps Mediating Mitotic Modeling Molecular Molecular Genetics Mus Natural regeneration Nature Neurons Obesity Pathway interactions Patients Population Process Proliferating Radiation therapy Receptor Cell Recovery Regulation Reporter Series Signal Transduction Staging Stem cells Surface System Taste Bud Cell Taste Buds Taste Perception Testing Tetracyclines Tissues Tongue Transgenic Organisms cancer therapy cell type chemotherapy daughter cell experience genetic manipulation head and neck cancer patient insight keratinocyte precursor cell progenitor regenerative self-renewal sensory system tongue papilla tool

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Taste is a fundamental sense, which increasingly has been implicated in dietary choices that contribute to obesity and thus to human health. The sense of taste is mediated by taste buds comprising aggregates of heterogeneous receptor cells within specialized papillae on the tongue. In adult mammals, taste receptor cells, despite their functional similarities to neurons, are continually renewed throughout life, like epithelial cells.It is likely due to this continual turnover, however, that the taste system is exceptionally prone to disruption by agents that affect cell proliferation. In particular, head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy virtually always experience loss or distortion of their sense of taste that can persist for years. Numerous chemotherapies also interrupt taste function, again presumably because of the regenerative nature of taste buds. To ascertain how these treatments cause taste dysfunction, it is important to have a clear understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of taste bud cell renewal. The current model of taste bud regeneration has been adopted primarily from studies of epidermis: presumed taste bud stem cells self-renew and generate transit amplifying cells, which together comprise the proliferating taste progenitor population tha gives rise to post-mitotic taste precursor cells which in turn differentiate into mature taste receptor cells. The model is limited in detail and only partially supported by current data, but nonetheless provides an excellent framework for our efforts to define the taste progenitor pool, and elucidate how it continually produces the correct complement of ~3 differentiated taste cell types. While we have some understanding of the cellular underpinnings of taste cell renewal, molecular regulation of this process is largely unexplored. Using conditional molecular genetics in mice, we have shown that the Wnt/ss-catenin pathway, a key regulator of development and homeostasis in multiple tissues is required for taste bud formation in embryos. Our new data suggest that this pathway also regulates adult taste cell renewal. Thus, in the following 2 specific aims, we will used conditional, tissue specific molecular genetic tools to test the hypothesis that: Taste buds continually renew from a specialized set of progenitor cells via processes that are distinct from the surrounding epithelium, and regulated by Wnt/ss-catenin signaling. Aim 1. Define the cell lineage and kinetics of taste receptor cell renewal in adult mice Aim 2. Define Wnt/ss-catenin function in discrete stages of taste cell renewal. In elucidating these mechanisms, we will gain crucial insight into cellular and molecular mechanisms of taste bud regeneration. In the long term, we will leverage these advances to explore how this process is disrupted in patients receiving conventional cancer therapies. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our sense of taste is mediated by taste buds on the tongue surface, and we use this sensory system to make key dietary decisions which impact our health, i.e., what to eat and what to avoid. In this application we will investigate how taste buds are maintained in adult mice, with the long-term goal of understanding how taste bud regeneration affects dietary choices of adults.

描述（由申请人提供）：味觉是一种基本的感觉，它越来越多地涉及到导致肥胖的饮食选择，从而影响人类健康。味觉是由味蕾介导的，味蕾由舌头上特殊乳头内的异质受体细胞组成。在成年哺乳动物中，味觉受体细胞尽管在功能上与神经元相似，但却像上皮细胞一样，在整个生命过程中不断更新。然而，很可能是由于这种持续的转换，味觉系统特别容易受到影响细胞增殖的物质的破坏。特别是，接受放射治疗的头颈癌患者几乎总是会经历味觉丧失或扭曲，这种情况可能持续数年。许多化疗也会中断味觉功能，可能也是因为味蕾的再生特性。为了确定这些治疗是如何导致味觉功能障碍的，对味蕾细胞更新的基本机制有一个清晰的认识是很重要的。目前的味蕾再生模型主要来自表皮的研究：假定的味蕾干细胞自我更新并产生转运扩增细胞，这些细胞共同组成增殖的味觉祖细胞群，产生有丝分裂后的味觉前体细胞，后者又分化为成熟的味觉受体细胞。该模型在细节上是有限的，只有部分现有数据支持，但尽管如此，它为我们定义味觉祖细胞池的努力提供了一个很好的框架，并阐明了它如何持续产生约3种不同味觉细胞类型的正确补充。虽然我们对味觉细胞更新的细胞基础有一些了解，但这一过程的分子调控在很大程度上是未知的。利用小鼠条件分子遗传学，我们已经证明Wnt/ss-catenin通路是胚胎味蕾形成所必需的，它是多种组织发育和稳态的关键调节因子。我们的新数据表明，这一途径也调节成人味觉细胞的更新。因此，在以下两个特定目标中，我们将使用有条件的、组织特异性的分子遗传学工具来验证以下假设：味蕾通过一组特殊的祖细胞通过与周围上皮不同的过程不断更新，并由Wnt/ss-catenin信号调节。目的1。确定成年小鼠味觉受体细胞更新的细胞系和动力学[2]。定义Wnt/ss-catenin在味觉细胞更新的不同阶段的功能。在阐明这些机制，我们将获得至关重要的洞察味蕾再生的细胞和分子机制。从长远来看，我们将利用这些进步来探索在接受传统癌症治疗的患者中，这一过程是如何被破坏的。