RNA-seq analysis of sorted duodenum epithelial cells and duodenum lamia propria macrophages from mice where Tsc2 is deleted in Lyz2-expressing cells

ABSTRACT: Iron is an essential cellular and important for many physiological functions including erythropoiesis and host defense. It is taken up from the diet in the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine by enterocytes and loaded onto transferrin, the main iron transport molecules in the circulation. Macrophages are ancient sentinel cells that are implicated in all steps of systemic iron metabolism except duodenal iron import. By assessing mice that harbor a macrophage-specific deletion of the tuberous sclerosis complex 2 (Tsc2), a negative regulator of mTORC1, we found that these mice possessed various defects in iron metabolism including defective steady state erythropoiesis and a highly reduced saturation of transferrin with iron. This iron-deficiency phenotype was caused by a block of iron import from the duodenal epithelial cells into the circulation. Activation of mTORC1 in villous duodenal CD68+ macrophages induced expression of serine proteases and promoted local degradation of the major iron transport molecule transferrin, whereas depletion of macrophages in mice increased transferrin levels in the duodenal villi. Inhibition of serine protease activity restored transferrin levels in the Tsc2-deficient mice. Physiologically, transferrin levels were regulated in the villi during Citrobacter rodentium infection in mice. These data show that transferrin is controlled locally in the duodenum and establish macrophages as regulators of duodenal iron uptake.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE196815 | GEO | 2023/06/08

REPOSITORIES: GEO