A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal

Abstract The intestinal epithelium is the fastest regenerative tissue in the body, fueled by fast‐cycling stem cells. The number and identity of these dividing and migrating stem cells are maintained by a mosaic pattern at the base of the crypt. How the underlying regulatory scheme manages this dyna...

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Main Authors: Kai‐Yuan Chen, Tara Srinivasan, Kuei‐Ling Tung, Julio M Belmonte, Lihua Wang, Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy, Jiahn Choi, Nikolai Rakhilin, Sarah King, Anastasia Kristine Varanko, Mavee Witherspoon, Nozomi Nishimura, James A Glazier, Steven M Lipkin, Pengcheng Bu, Xiling Shen
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Published: Springer Nature 2017-04-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167324
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author Kai‐Yuan Chen
Tara Srinivasan
Kuei‐Ling Tung
Julio M Belmonte
Lihua Wang
Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy
Jiahn Choi
Nikolai Rakhilin
Sarah King
Anastasia Kristine Varanko
Mavee Witherspoon
Nozomi Nishimura
James A Glazier
Steven M Lipkin
Pengcheng Bu
Xiling Shen
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Tara Srinivasan
Kuei‐Ling Tung
Julio M Belmonte
Lihua Wang
Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy
Jiahn Choi
Nikolai Rakhilin
Sarah King
Anastasia Kristine Varanko
Mavee Witherspoon
Nozomi Nishimura
James A Glazier
Steven M Lipkin
Pengcheng Bu
Xiling Shen
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description Abstract The intestinal epithelium is the fastest regenerative tissue in the body, fueled by fast‐cycling stem cells. The number and identity of these dividing and migrating stem cells are maintained by a mosaic pattern at the base of the crypt. How the underlying regulatory scheme manages this dynamic stem cell niche is not entirely clear. We stimulated intestinal organoids with Notch ligands and inhibitors and discovered that intestinal stem cells employ a positive feedback mechanism via direct Notch binding to the second intron of the Notch1 gene. Inactivation of the positive feedback by CRISPR/Cas9 mutation of the binding sequence alters the mosaic stem cell niche pattern and hinders regeneration in organoids. Dynamical system analysis and agent‐based multiscale stochastic modeling suggest that the positive feedback enhances the robustness of Notch‐mediated niche patterning. This study highlights the importance of feedback mechanisms in spatiotemporal control of the stem cell niche.
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spelling doaj-art-1b673af1fdcb4bcdaa53740941263cec2025-08-20T03:06:36ZengSpringer NatureMolecular Systems Biology1744-42922017-04-0113411610.15252/msb.20167324A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewalKai‐Yuan Chen0Tara Srinivasan1Kuei‐Ling Tung2Julio M Belmonte3Lihua Wang4Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy5Jiahn Choi6Nikolai Rakhilin7Sarah King8Anastasia Kristine Varanko9Mavee Witherspoon10Nozomi Nishimura11James A Glazier12Steven M Lipkin13Pengcheng Bu14Xiling Shen15School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell UniversityBiocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana UniversityDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversitySchool of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell UniversitySchool of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell UniversityBiocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana UniversityDepartments of Medicine, Genetic Medicine and Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell UniversityAbstract The intestinal epithelium is the fastest regenerative tissue in the body, fueled by fast‐cycling stem cells. The number and identity of these dividing and migrating stem cells are maintained by a mosaic pattern at the base of the crypt. How the underlying regulatory scheme manages this dynamic stem cell niche is not entirely clear. We stimulated intestinal organoids with Notch ligands and inhibitors and discovered that intestinal stem cells employ a positive feedback mechanism via direct Notch binding to the second intron of the Notch1 gene. Inactivation of the positive feedback by CRISPR/Cas9 mutation of the binding sequence alters the mosaic stem cell niche pattern and hinders regeneration in organoids. Dynamical system analysis and agent‐based multiscale stochastic modeling suggest that the positive feedback enhances the robustness of Notch‐mediated niche patterning. This study highlights the importance of feedback mechanisms in spatiotemporal control of the stem cell niche.https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167324gene editingintestine stem cellNotch signalingorganoidpositive feedback
spellingShingle Kai‐Yuan Chen
Tara Srinivasan
Kuei‐Ling Tung
Julio M Belmonte
Lihua Wang
Preetish Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy
Jiahn Choi
Nikolai Rakhilin
Sarah King
Anastasia Kristine Varanko
Mavee Witherspoon
Nozomi Nishimura
James A Glazier
Steven M Lipkin
Pengcheng Bu
Xiling Shen
A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal
Molecular Systems Biology
gene editing
intestine stem cell
Notch signaling
organoid
positive feedback
title A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal
title_full A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal
title_fullStr A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal
title_full_unstemmed A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal
title_short A Notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self‐renewal
title_sort notch positive feedback in the intestinal stem cell niche is essential for stem cell self renewal
topic gene editing
intestine stem cell
Notch signaling
organoid
positive feedback
url https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167324
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