Researchers have discovered a new bacterium that weakens the immune system in the gut, potentially contributing to certain inflammatory and infectious gut diseases. The team identified the bacterium, Tomasiella immunophila (T.
Researchers have discovered a new bacterium that weakens the immune system in the gut, potentially contributing to certain inflammatory and infectious gut diseases. The team identified the bacterium, Tomasiella immunophila , which plays a key role in breaking down a crucial immune component of the gut's multi-faceted protective immune barrier.
Identifying this bacterium is the first step to developing new treatments for a variety of inflammatory and infectious gut diseases. These conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's and ulcerative colitis, are associated with decreased levels of secretory immunoglobulin A , an antibody that protects mucosal surfaces.was led by Thaddeus Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic's Department of Inflammation and Immunity, and Qiuhe Lu, Ph.D.
"Drs. Stappenbeck and Lu's rigorous and elegant study provides a key insight and an exciting potential mechanism for why some people have low or absent levels of SIgA in their gut, yet retain normal levels of SIgA in their bloodstream," says Michael Silverman, M.D., Ph.D., a physician with the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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