Aged intestinal stem cells propagate cell-intrinsic sources of inflammaging in mice [ATAC_invivo]
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ABSTRACT: Low-grade chronic inflammation is considered a hallmark of ageing and associated with impaired tissue function and development of disease. However, how cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic factors interact to establish this phenotype, termed inflammaging, remains poorly understood. We addressed this question in the mouse intestinal epithelium, using organoid cultures to dissect stem cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic sources of increased inflammatory signaling upon ageing. At the single-cell level, we found that inflammaging establishes differently in cells along the crypt-villus axis, including intestinal stem cells (ISCs). Importantly, the inflammaging phenotype was stably propagated by aged ISCs in organoid cultures and associated with increased chromatin accessibility of inflammation-associated loci in vivo and ex vivo, indicating a cell-intrinsic memory of inflammation. Mechanistically, we show that expression of inflammaging genes is dependent on STAT1 signaling. Together, our data reveal that inflammaging in the intestine is promoted by a cell-intrinsic mechanism, stably propagated by ISCs and associated with a disbalance in immune homeostasis.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE233898 | GEO | 2023/10/26
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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