Mulberry Leaf-Derived Morin Activates β-Catenin by Binding to Frizzled7 to Promote Intestinal Stem Cell Expansion upon Heat-Stable Enterotoxin b Injury.
Jia-Yi ZhouWen-Wen XieTing-Cai HuXiao-Fan WangHui-Chao YanXiu-Qi WangPublished in: Journal of agricultural and food chemistry (2024)
Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) sustain epithelial renewal by dynamically altering behaviors of proliferation and differentiation in response to various nutrition and stress inputs. However, how ISCs integrate bioactive substance morin cues to protect against heat-stable enterotoxin b (STb) produced by Escherichia coli remains an uncertain question with implications for treating bacterial diarrhea. Our recent work showed that oral mulberry leaf-derived morin improved the growth performance in STb-challenged mice. Furthermore, morin supplementation reinstated the impaired small-intestinal epithelial structure and barrier function by stimulating ISC proliferation and differentiation as well as supporting intestinal organoid expansion ex vivo. Importantly, the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, an ISC fate commitment signal, was reactivated by morin to restore the jejunal crypt-villus architecture in response to STb stimulation. Mechanically, the extracellular morin-initiated β-catenin axis is dependent or partially dependent on the Wnt membrane receptor Frizzled7 (FZD7). Our data reveal an unexpected role of leaf-derived morin, which represents molecular signaling targeting the FZD7 platform instrumental for controlling ISC regeneration upon STb injury.
Keyphrases
- stem cells
- escherichia coli
- cell proliferation
- signaling pathway
- cell therapy
- heat stress
- physical activity
- machine learning
- high throughput
- electronic health record
- staphylococcus aureus
- mesenchymal stem cells
- cystic fibrosis
- irritable bowel syndrome
- deep learning
- big data
- clostridium difficile
- high fat diet induced
- cell fate