Publication Date:
2014-03-29
Description:
The impact of nutritional status during fetal life on the overall health of adults has been recognized; however, dietary effects on the developing immune system are largely unknown. Development of secondary lymphoid organs occurs during embryogenesis and is considered to be developmentally programmed. Secondary lymphoid organ formation depends on a subset of type 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) named lymphoid tissue inducer (LTi) cells. Here we show that mouse fetal ILC3s are controlled by cell-autonomous retinoic acid (RA) signalling in utero, which pre-sets the immune fitness in adulthood. We found that embryonic lymphoid organs contain ILC progenitors that differentiate locally into mature LTi cells. Local LTi cell differentiation was controlled by maternal retinoid intake and fetal RA signalling acting in a haematopoietic cell-autonomous manner. RA controlled LTi cell maturation upstream of the transcription factor RORgammat. Accordingly, enforced expression of Rorgt restored maturation of LTi cells with impaired RA signalling, whereas RA receptors directly regulated the Rorgt locus. Finally, we established that maternal levels of dietary retinoids control the size of secondary lymphoid organs and the efficiency of immune responses in the adult offspring. Our results reveal a molecular link between maternal nutrients and the formation of immune structures required for resistance to infection in the offspring.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉van de Pavert, Serge A -- Ferreira, Manuela -- Domingues, Rita G -- Ribeiro, Helder -- Molenaar, Rosalie -- Moreira-Santos, Lara -- Almeida, Francisca F -- Ibiza, Sales -- Barbosa, Ines -- Goverse, Gera -- Labao-Almeida, Carlos -- Godinho-Silva, Cristina -- Konijn, Tanja -- Schooneman, Dennis -- O'Toole, Tom -- Mizee, Mark R -- Habani, Yasmin -- Haak, Esther -- Santori, Fabio R -- Littman, Dan R -- Schulte-Merker, Stefan -- Dzierzak, Elaine -- Simas, J Pedro -- Mebius, Reina E -- Veiga-Fernandes, Henrique -- R01 AI080885/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01AI080885/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Apr 3;508(7494):123-7. doi: 10.1038/nature13158. Epub 2014 Mar 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Hubrecht Institute-KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, Netherlands. [3]. ; 1] Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, Edificio Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal [2]. ; Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, Edificio Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal. ; Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; Erasmus Stem Cell Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular Pathogenesis Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. ; Hubrecht Institute-KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, Netherlands. ; 1] Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2].〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24670648" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Differentiation/drug effects/immunology
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Diet
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Female
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Fetus/drug effects/*immunology
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Immunity, Innate/drug effects/*immunology
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Lymphoid Tissue/cytology/drug effects/embryology/immunology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Pregnancy
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Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects/*immunology
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Receptors, Retinoic Acid/metabolism
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Signal Transduction/drug effects
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Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/immunology
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Tretinoin/administration & dosage/*immunology/metabolism/*pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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