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标题：Prevention of Adult Colitis by Oral Ferric Iron in Juvenile Mice Is Associated with the Inhibition of the Tbet Promoter Hypomethylation and Gene Overexpression
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作者：Chourouk Ettreiki ; Abalo Chango ; Nicolas Barbezier 等
期刊名称：Nutrients
电子版ISSN：2072-6643
出版年度：2019
卷号：11
期号：8
页码：1758-1771
DOI：10.3390/nu11081758
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Iron is an essential nutrient needed for physiological functions, particularly during the developmental period of the early childhood of at-risk populations. The purpose of this study was to investigate, in an experimental colitis, the consequences of daily oral iron ingestion in the early period on the inflammatory response, the spleen T helper (Th) profiles and the associated molecular mechanisms. Juvenile mice orally received microencapsulated ferric iron or water for 6 weeks. On adult mice, we induced a sham or experimental trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS) moderate colitis during the last week of the experiment before sacrificing the animals 7 days later. The severity of the gut inflammation was assessed by macroscopic damage scores (MDS) and the myeloperoxidase activity (MPO). Th profiles were evaluated by the examination of the splenic gene expression of key transcription factors of the Th differentiation (Tbet, Gata3, Foxp3 and RORγ) and the methylation of their respective promoter. While TNBS-induced colitis was associated with a change of the Th profile (notably an increase in the Tbet/Gata3 ratio in the spleen), the colitis-inhibition induced by ferric iron was associated with a limitation of the splenic Th profiles perturbation. The inhibition of the splenic Tbet gene overexpression was associated with an inhibition of promoter hypomethylation. In summary, mice treated by long-term oral ferric iron in the early period of life exhibited an inhibition of colitis associated with the inhibition of the splenic Tbet promoter hypomethylation and gene overexpression.
关键词：ferric iron; intestinal inflammation; Th profile; Tbet; promoter methylation ferric iron ; intestinal inflammation ; Th profile ; Tbet ; promoter methylation