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Table 1 The intestinal cells capable of self-renewal or de-differentiation

From: Intestinal epithelial plasticity and regeneration via cell dedifferentiation

Marker

Lineage

Overlapping expression

Tissue

Damage model

Mechanism

Reference

Bmi1

+4 reserve stem cells

Lgr5, Prox1, mTert, Krt19

Small Intestine

Irradiation, ablation of Lgr5+ through Lgr5-DTR mice

Unclear

(Lopez-Arribillaga et al. 2015; Sangiorgi and Capecchi 2008; Tian et al. 2011; Yan et al. 2012)

Enteroendocrine cells

Prox1

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Open chromatin

(Jadhav et al. 2017; Yan et al. 2017)

Hopx

+4 reserve stem cells

Lgr5, mTert, Krt19

Small Intestine

Unclear

(Takeda et al. 2011)

Regenerative stem cells

ATOH1

Colon

DSS-induced colitis

Oxygen tension

(Wang et al. 2019)

Lrig1

Active ISCs

Lgr5

Small Intestine

Negative regulation of ErbB signaling

(Wong et al. 2012)

+4 reserve stem cells

Lgr5, Hopx, mTert, Krt19

Small intestine and colon

Irradiation

Negative regulation of ErbB signaling

(Powell et al. 2012)

Tert

+4 reserve stem cells

Lgr5, Bmi1, Mex3a

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(Barriga et al. 2017; Breault et al. 2008; Montgomery et al. 2011)

Dclk1

+4 reserve stem cells

Msi1

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(May et al. 2008; Nakanishi et al. 2013)

Tuft cells

Small intestine and colon

Irradiation, DSS-induced colitis

Unclear

(Gerbe et al. 2009; Westphalen et al. 2014)

LRCsa

Secretory progenitors (short-term)

Lgr5, Hopx, Dll1, ATOH1, Sox9, Krt19

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(Buczacki et al. 2013; Li et al. 2016; Roche et al. 2015)

Paneth and Enteroendocrine -like cells (long-term)

Lyz1, c-Kit

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(Li et al. 2016; Roche et al. 2015)

Dll1

Secretory progenitors

Sox9, ATOH1, Krt19

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(van Es et al. 2012)

ATOH1

Secretory progenitors

Lgr5, Dll1, Hopx

Small intestine and colon

Irradiation, DSS-induced colitis

Multisite phosphorylation of ATOH1

(Ishibashi et al. 2018; Tomic et al. 2018)

Sox9

LRCs

Lgr5, Bmi1, Hopx, Lrig1, Dclk1, Dll1

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(Roche et al. 2015)

Krt19

Upper crypts

Lgr5, Bmi1, Hopx, Lrig1, mTert, Dll1

Small intestine and colon

5-FU, ablation of Lgr5+ through Lgr5-DTR mice

Unclear

(Asfaha et al. 2015)

Lyz1

Paneth cell

c-Kit

Small Intestine

Irradiation, inflammation

SCF/c-Kit/Wnt pathway, forced activation of Notch pathway

(Schmitt et al. 2018; Yu et al. 2018)

Alpi

Enterocyte progenitor

Small Intestine

Ablation of Lgr5+ through Lgr5-DTR mice

Unclear

(Tetteh et al. 2016)

CD69, CD274

Goblet cell progenitor

Small Intestine

Ablation of Lgr5+ through Lgr5-DTR mice

Open chromatin

(Jadhav et al. 2017)

Prox1

Enteroendocrine cells, tuft cells

Bmi1

Small Intestine

Irradiation

Unclear

(Yan et al. 2017)

Mex3a

Quiescent stem cells

Lgr5

Small Intestine

5-FU, ionizing radiation

Unclear

(Barriga et al. 2017)

Ascl2

Enterocyte progenitor and secretory progenitor

Smoc2, Cdca7

Small intestine and colon

Ablation of Lgr5+ through Lgr5-DTR mice

Ascl2 to activate expression of its targets such as Il11ra1

(Murata et al. 2020)

Sca1

Repairing epithelium

Lrig1

Colon

DSS-induced colitis

Reprogram into fetal-like state by activation of YAP/TAZ pathway

(Yui et al. 2018)

Progeny of ISCs

Small intestine

Infection by H.polygyrus, irradiation, ablation of Lgr5+ through Lgr5-DTR mice

IFN-γ-denpendent fetal-like transcriptional program

(Nusse et al. 2018)

  1. aLRCs Nucleotide analog label-retaining cells