Dietary cysteine enhances intestinal stemness via CD8+ T cell-derived IL-22
Fangtao Chi, Qiming Zhang, Jessica E.S. Shay, Shixun Han, Johanna ten Hoeve, Yin Yuan, Zhenning Yang, Heaji Shin, Samuel Block, Sumeet A. Solanki, Yatrik Madhukar Shah, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Judith Agudo, Ömer H. Yilmaz
This study shows that dietary cysteine improves intestinal stem cell repair through IL-22 from CD8+ T cells.
Nature · Oct 1, 2025Peer-reviewedCell Biology