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R-spondin substitutes for neuronal input for taste cell regeneration in adult mice
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R-spondin substitutes for neuronal input for taste cell regeneration in adult mice
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Journal Article
R-spondin substitutes for neuronal input for taste cell regeneration in adult mice
2021
Overview
Taste bud cells regenerate throughout life. Taste bud maintenance depends on continuous replacement of senescent taste cells with new ones generated by adult taste stem cells. More than a century ago it was shown that taste buds degenerate after their innervating nerves are transected and that they are not restored until after reinnervation by distant gustatory ganglion neurons. Thus, neuronal input, likely via neuron-supplied factors, is required for generation of differentiated taste cells and taste bud maintenance. However, the identity of such a neuron-supplied niche factor(s) remains unclear. Here, by mining a published RNA-sequencing dataset of geniculate ganglion neurons and by in situ hybridization, we demonstrate that R-spondin-2, the ligand of Lgr5 and its homologs Lgr4/6 and stem-cell-expressed E3 ligases Rnf43/Znrf3, is expressed in nodose-petrosal and geniculate ganglion neurons. Using the glossopharyngeal nerve transection model, we show that systemic delivery of R-spondin via adenovirus can promote generation of differentiated taste cells despite denervation. Thus, exogenous R-spondin can substitute for neuronal input for taste bud cell replenishment and taste bud maintenance. Using taste organoid cultures, we show that R-spondin is required for generation of differentiated taste cells and that, in the absence of R-spondin in culture medium, taste bud cells are not generated ex vivo. Thus, we propose that R-spondin-2 may be the long-sought neuronal factor that acts on taste stem cells for maintaining taste tissue homeostasis.
