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SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 69, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abf6734
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- German Research Foundation [KU 688/8-1, SCHU1259/10-1, BH 93/1-4]
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Gallbladder tuft cells act as sensors of the microbial metabolite propionate, initiating defense mechanisms in the gallbladder and epithelium through the release of acetylcholine and cysteinyl leukotrienes.
The gallbladder stores bile between meals and empties into the duodenum upon demand and is thereby exposed to the intestinal microbiome. This exposure raises the need for antimicrobial factors, among them, mucins produced by cholangiocytes, the dominant epithelial cell type in the gallbladder. The role of the much less frequent biliary tuft cells is still unknown. We here show that propionate, a major metabolite of intestinal bacteria, activates tuft cells via the short-chain free fatty acid receptor 2 and downstream signaling involving the cation channel transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 5. This results in corelease of acetylcholine and cysteinyl leukotrienes from tuft cells and evokes synergistic paracrine effects upon the epithelium and the gallbladder smooth muscle, respectively. Acetylcholine triggers mucin release from cholangiocytes, an epithelial defense mechanism, through the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M3. Cysteinyl leukotrienes cause gallbladder contraction through their cognate receptor CysLTR1, prompting emptying and closing. Our results establish gallbladder tuft cells as sensors of the microbial metabolite propionate, initiating dichotomous innate defense mechanisms through simultaneous release of acetylcholine and cysteinyl leukotrienes.
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