Christopher B Forsyth1,2, Maliha Shaikh1, Faraz Bishehsari1, Garth Swanson1, Robin M Voigt1, Hemraj Dodiya3, Peter Wilkinson4, Beata Samelco5, Shiwen Song6, Ali Keshavarzian3,7,8,9. 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. 2. Department of Biochemistry, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois. 3. Department of Pharmacology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois. 4. Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 5. Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. 6. American Society for Clinical Pathology, Chicago, Illinois. 7. Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois. 8. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. 9. University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Alcohol increases intestinal permeability to proinflammatory microbial products that promote liver disease, even after a period of sobriety. We sought to test the hypothesis that alcohol affects intestinal stem cells using an in vivo model and ex vivo organoids generated from jejunum and colon from mice fed chronic alcohol. METHODS: Mice were fed a control or an alcohol diet. Intestinal permeability, liver steatosis-inflammation, and stool short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) were measured. Jejunum and colonic organoids and tissue were stained for stem cell, cell lineage, and apical junction markers with assessment of mRNA by PCR and RNA-seq. ChIP-PCR analysis was carried out for Notch1 using an antibody specific for acetylated histone 3. RESULTS: Alcohol-fed mice exhibited colonic (but not small intestinal) hyperpermeability, steatohepatitis, and decreased butyrate/total SCFA ratio in stool. Stem cell, cell lineage, and apical junction marker staining in tissue or organoids from jejunum tissue were not impacted by alcohol. Only chromogranin A (Chga) was increased in jejunum organoids by qPCR. However, colonic tissue and organoid staining exhibited an alcohol-induced significant decrease in cytokeratin 20+ (Krt20+) absorptive lineage enterocytes, a decrease in occludin and E-cadherin apical junction proteins, an increase in Chga, and an increase in the Lgr5 stem cell marker. qPCR revealed an alcohol-induced decrease in colonic organoid and tissue Notch1, Hes1, and Krt20 and increased Chga, supporting an alteration in stem cell fate due to decreased Notch1 expression. Colonic tissue ChIP-PCR revealed alcohol feeding suppressed Notch1 mRNA expression (via deacetylation of histone H3) and decreased Notch1 tissue staining. CONCLUSIONS: Data support a model for alcohol-induced colonic hyperpermeability via epigenetic effects on Notch1, and thus Hes1, suppression through a mechanism involving histone H3 deacetylation at the Notch1 locus. This decreased enterocyte and increased enteroendocrine cell colonic stem cell fate and decreased apical junctional proteins leading to hyperpermeability.
BACKGROUND:Alcohol increases intestinal permeability to proinflammatory microbial products that promote liver disease, even after a period of sobriety. We sought to test the hypothesis that alcohol affects intestinal stem cells using an in vivo model and ex vivo organoids generated from jejunum and colon from mice fed chronic alcohol. METHODS:Mice were fed a control or an alcohol diet. Intestinal permeability, liver steatosis-inflammation, and stool short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) were measured. Jejunum and colonic organoids and tissue were stained for stem cell, cell lineage, and apical junction markers with assessment of mRNA by PCR and RNA-seq. ChIP-PCR analysis was carried out for Notch1 using an antibody specific for acetylated histone 3. RESULTS:Alcohol-fed mice exhibited colonic (but not small intestinal) hyperpermeability, steatohepatitis, and decreased butyrate/total SCFA ratio in stool. Stem cell, cell lineage, and apical junction marker staining in tissue or organoids from jejunum tissue were not impacted by alcohol. Only chromogranin A (Chga) was increased in jejunum organoids by qPCR. However, colonic tissue and organoid staining exhibited an alcohol-induced significant decrease in cytokeratin 20+ (Krt20+) absorptive lineage enterocytes, a decrease in occludin and E-cadherin apical junction proteins, an increase in Chga, and an increase in the Lgr5 stem cell marker. qPCR revealed an alcohol-induced decrease in colonic organoid and tissue Notch1, Hes1, and Krt20 and increased Chga, supporting an alteration in stem cell fate due to decreased Notch1 expression. Colonic tissue ChIP-PCR revealed alcohol feeding suppressed Notch1 mRNA expression (via deacetylation of histone H3) and decreased Notch1 tissue staining. CONCLUSIONS: Data support a model for alcohol-induced colonic hyperpermeability via epigenetic effects on Notch1, and thus Hes1, suppression through a mechanism involving histone H3 deacetylation at the Notch1 locus. This decreased enterocyte and increased enteroendocrine cell colonic stem cell fate and decreased apical junctional proteins leading to hyperpermeability.
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