Gothenburg researchers seek answers to elusive intestinal disease A chronic intestinal disease is preventing children in low-income countries from growing and developing as they should. With support from the Gates Foundation, researchers at the University of Gothenb...

Thank you Gates Foundation for believing in our work. This is a strong acknowledgment of our standing in the field — and a boost to our vision: to move lab findings into impactful solutions for people living with Environmental Enteric Dysfunction.

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Patients with ileal Crohn's carry diminished levels of MUC17 a membrane mucin demonstrated to protect the small intestine against bacteria in a preclinical mouse model, @tpelaseyed.bsky.social et al.
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/181481

Thanks @larsvereecke.bsky.social !

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And finally Bruce Vallance who provided the valuable C. rodentium strains and helped identify critical experimental and conceptual gaps in the first drafts of the paper.

Thank you all!

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Brendan Dolan helped us with high-res microscopy.
Liisa Arike ran the mass spectrometer.
Sara Thulin collected all the biopsies from the patients.

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Molly Sivertsson worked diligently on the morphological analysis of tissues.

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Fleur van de Koolwijk who worked on the microbial profiling.

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Sofia Jäverfelt was in charge of the proteomics analysis.

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Elena Layunta: first author who performed almost all the in vivo work including challenge protocols single-handedly!

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Many folks in my lab and the Mucin Biology Groups contributed to this work. They’re not on this platform (yet), but they should be acknowledge for their hard work (1/n)

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We’re unwrapping an exciting discovery from our lab that reveals the critical role of the transmembrane mucin MUC17 in protecting the small intestine against bacterial challenges.

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Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

"Polls have shown that principal investigator biologists now spend up to 40 percent of their time—it’s a shocking number, 40 percent of their time—writing grants."

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Overdue: Progress report
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18 Dec: Supervisor report II
18 Dec: Supervisor report III
9 Jan: Grant deadline
9 Jan: Grant deadline II
10 Jan: Grant deadline III
16 Jan: Panel meeting, 14 applications
27 Jan: Grant deadline IV
1 Feb: Grant deadline V

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The MYO1B and MYO5B motor proteins and the sorting nexin SNX27 regulate apical targeting of membrane mucin MUC17 in enterocytes A dense glycocalyx, composed of the megaDalton-sized membrane mucin MUC17, coats the microvilli in the apical brush border of transporting intestinal epithelial cells, called enterocytes. The formatio...

How do massive megaDalton-sized transmembrane mucins reach the plasma membrane in intestinal epithelial cells? 🧐 Using proximity labeling, proteomics, and CRISPR KO, we uncovered key roles for MYO1B, MYO5B, and SNX27 in mucin transport. portlandpress.com/biochemj/art... #mucins #glycotime

Kinetic and structure-based comparisons of silent and stimulatory flagellin interactions with TLR5 The bacterial protein flagellin is the sole ligand of the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5). Flagellins with strong agonism bind TLR5 at their D1 and D0 domains, while poor agonist si...

Here we delve deeper into what makes a flagellin “silent” - see Michael Bell’s cryo-EM structure of a silent flagellin from the flagellum of Roseburia hominis- it has a different charge distribution compared to FliC and it dissociates rapidly from TLR5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I still think the best approach is to determine what known markers you can detect in your culture. Once this is established you gain a better understanding of how your intervention affects the cell trajectory, i.e. towards a specific lineage type

Are you growing primary cells or a cell line? Our experience is that primary cultures and organoids lose important features present in the in vivo setting. I suggest you benchmark your cultures against cell type-specific markers in the native airway epithelium, identified by scRNA-seq.

Oh, right. Excellent!

Please add. Thanks.

What kind of in vitro cell system are you using?

Hi @jeffmold.bsky.social

MUC16 is broadly expressed in the airway epithelium. CEACAM6 has a narrower expression profile. I suggest you browse the different tabs over at HPA: www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000181...

Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity - Nature Kazachstania pintolopesii is a highly prevalent fungal symbiont that can trigger type 2 immunity and influence the composition of the gut mycobiome, as well as immune and disease phenotypes.

#WeekendRead #FungiPower! Liao Gao Iliev &co show @ Nature that the stomach of wild, not lab, mice is colonized by an immunosilent fungus! Mucus alterations via diet or antibiotics drive a Th2 -not Th17- response that worsens allergy but protects against parasites! doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08213-2

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I would love to be added to this starter pack. We’re working on transmembrane mucins in small intestinal barrier function. Thanks!