Figure 1 IL22 induces an ER stress/unfolded protein response transcriptional module in colonic epithelial cells. (A) Heat map demonstrating pathway specific transcript expression in murine colonoids treated with (+IL22, n=3) or without (control, n=3) recombinant IL22. Mouse gene 2.0 ST array platform (affymetrix). (B) GSEA evaluating enrichment of ER stress response transcriptional module in IL22 treated colonoids. A core set of colonic epithelial-specific ER stress genes was defined by analysing significantly differentially expressed (p<0.05 and absolute value of the log2 fold change >±2) transcripts in colonoids treated with tunicamycin (n=3) or medium alone (n=3). (C) Expression of ER stress response transcripts in IL22 treated WT and Il22ra1 −/− colonoids (RNA-seq dataset ERR247358-ERR247389, Pham et al, 2014). 18 (D) Enrichment analysis for ER stress-related functional annotation groups (GO biological processes) in IL22-treated colonoids from dataset ERR247358-ERR247389. (E) Microarray analysis of core ER stress response transcripts in colonoids treated with tunicamycin (n=3), tunicamycin+IL22 (n=3) or untreated (control, n=3). (F) Real-time PCR quantification of ER stress transcripts in colonoids treated with IL22 (n=11), IL17A (n=6) and IL22+IL17A (n=6) and unexposed controls. *P<0.01. (G) Immunoblot and densitometry quantification (H) detecting GRP78 protein expression in colonoids treated with different cytokines. *P<0.026, one tailed t test. ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GO, Gene Ontology; GSEA, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis; IL22, interleukin-22.on July 6, 2020 by guest. Protected by copyright.