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MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair
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Commensals rule the MAITrix: Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells play an important role in mucosal homeostasis. MAIT cells recognize microbial small molecules presented by the major histocompatibility complex class Ib molecule MR1. MAIT cells are absent in germ-free mice, and the mechanisms by which microbiota control MAIT cell development are unknown (see the Perspective by Oh and Unutmaz). Legoux et al. show that, in mice, development of MAIT cells within the thymus is governed by the bacterial product 5-(2-oxopropylideneamino)-6- d -ribitylaminouracil, which rapidly traffics from the mucosa to the thymus, where it is captured by MR1 and presented to developing MAIT cells. Constantinides et al. report that MAIT cell induction only occurs during a limited, early-life window and requires exposure to defined microbes that produce riboflavin derivatives. Continual interactions between MAIT cells and commensals in the skin modulates tissue repair functions. Together, these papers highlight how the microbiota can direct immune cell development and subsequent function at mucosal sites by secreting compounds that act like self-antigens. Science , this issue p. 494 , p. eaax6624 ; see also p. 419
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MAIT cells require a narrow early-life window of microbial exposure, especially riboflavin-synthesizing bacteria, to establish long-term tissue populations. In adult skin, these cells become a dominant IL-17A-producing, tissue-resident subset that responds to commensal antigens and cytokines and accelerates wound repair in mice.
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- MAIT cells were enriched in mouse skin, reaching up to 40% of αβ T cells, and averaged about 2% of CD3+ lymphocytes in human skin; germ-free mice had reduced MAIT cells across thymus, spleen, gut, skin, lungs, and liver.
- A defined five-species early-life community, or monocolonization with *Proteus mirabilis* alone, restored MAIT cell development in neonatal germ-free mice, whereas later-life exposure or adult conventionalization did not; topical 5-OP-RU also induced skin MAIT cells only when given early.
- Cutaneous MAIT cells were mostly double-negative, produced IL-17A rather than IFNγ, expressed type-17 genes including *Rorc*, *Il22*, *Il1r1*, and *Il23r*, and showed a tissue-repair transcriptional signature; IL-23 receptor deficiency reduced MAIT cell numbers, IL-18 blockade limited their expansion after *S. epidermidis*, and IL-1 receptor deficiency reduced IL-17A production.
- *S. epidermidis* lacking *ribD* failed to expand MAIT cells, while inducible MR1 deletion after development did not affect steady-state MAIT cells but prevented their response to *S. epidermidis*; in wounding experiments, MAIT-sufficient *Tcrd−/−* mice had longer epidermal tongues than MAIT-deficient *Mr1−/− Tcrd−/−* mice, and topical 5-OP-RU increased epidermal tongue length in wild-type mice.
Methods
- Mouse immunology study using SPF, germ-free, gnotobiotic, knockout, transgenic, parabiosis, and wound-healing models; early-life colonization was performed by oral gavage or topical skin association, with 16S rRNA sequencing and bacterial whole-genome sequencing to characterize communities and riboflavin synthesis genes.
- Immune populations were analyzed by flow cytometry, MR1 tetramer enrichment, confocal microscopy, RNA-sequencing, and single-cell RNA-sequencing; human skin specimens from elective surgery were digested and analyzed for MAIT cell frequency.
- Statistical comparisons used two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-tests; RNA-seq differential expression used DESeq2 with GO enrichment via Metascape, and scRNA-seq used Cell Ranger, CITE-seq-Count, and Seurat.
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- The paper states that how microbiota-derived riboflavin intermediates before and after birth contribute to human MAIT cell maturation and long-term tissue imprinting remains to be addressed.
- The functional wound-healing evidence is from murine punch-biopsy experiments, and MAIT cell function was tested in *Tcrd−/−* mice to reduce competition from γδ T cells, a setting the authors note is more relevant to human skin because human skin has fewer γδ T cells than mouse skin.
- Evident from the text: human data are limited mainly to skin MAIT cell frequency, and the study relies heavily on specific mouse models, defined bacterial strains, and early-life colonization conditions, so direct human causal tests of MAIT cell function are not provided.
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“The colonization of neonatal GF mice with our early-life microbial community induced MAIT cell development to the same extent observed in SPF mice harboring high MAIT cell frequencies (Fig. 1I).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Early-life exposure to riboflavin-synthesizing commensals is required for MAIT cell development
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“Indeed, the monocolonization of neonatal GF mice with P. mirabilis, but not L. johnsonii, was sufficient to drive MAIT cell development (Fig. 1K).”
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“In agreement with our observation that adult microbial colonization was insufficient to promote MAIT cell development (Fig. 1I), topical application of 5-OP-RU to the skin of adult GF mice failed to induce MAIT cells (Fig. 1L).”
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“Cutaneous MAIT cells displayed a markedly different transcriptional profile (Figs. 2I–J & S2F–G).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Cutaneous MAIT cells express a type-17 transcriptional program and require homeostatic IL-23
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“Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis revealed that cutaneous MAIT cells express a transcriptional profile consistent with T cell activation, including leukocyte differentiation, migration and cell adhesion, cytokine production, and the ERK1/2 cascade, which is downstream of TCR signaling (Fig. 2C).”
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“IL-23 receptor-deficient mice (Il23rgfp/gfp) exhibited fewer MAIT cells than WT animals (Figs. 2F–G & S2D–E)”
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“their ability to produce IL-17A was significantly decreased (Fig. 3N–O).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Skin-resident MAIT cells respond to cutaneous microbes in an IL-1- and IL-18-dependent manner
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“Additionally, scRNA-seq confirmed that cutaneous MAIT cells express multiple genes associated with tissue repair, including Lgals3, F2r, Sdc1, and Npnt (Fig. 2J).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Cutaneous MAIT cells express a type-17 transcriptional program and require homeostatic IL-23
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“S. epidermidis association promoted the expression of genes associated specifically with angiogenesis, including angiogenin (Ang) and Hgf (47, 48), as well as genes that more broadly promote tissue repair, like Ceacam1, Grn, Hmox1, Igf1, and Pdgfa (49–53) (Fig. 3R).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Skin-resident MAIT cells respond to cutaneous microbes in an IL-1- and IL-18-dependent manner
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“Conversely, exposure later in life failed to promote MAIT cell development and accumulation within tissues (Fig. 1H–I)”
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“Although MAIT cells were highly abundant within the skin, WT SPF mice housed in distinct cages showed striking variability in the proportion of MAIT cells among genetically identical animals, ranging from <5%−40% of αβ T cells (Fig. 1D–E). In contrast, animals in the same cage had similar frequencies of MAIT cells in the skin and other organs (Fig. 1E)”
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“This analysis revealed that MAIT cells were highly enriched in the skin (Fig. 1B–C), where they comprised up to 40% of αβ T cells (Fig. 1D–E).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Early-life exposure to riboflavin-synthesizing commensals is required for MAIT cell development
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“Topical application of 5-OP-RU was sufficient to induce a significant increase in the number of MAIT cells within the skin (Fig. 1L), without promoting the accumulation of other T cell subsets (Fig. S1J).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Early-life exposure to riboflavin-synthesizing commensals is required for MAIT cell development
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“Furthermore, MAIT cells were also enriched in human skin compared to the reported ~1% in peripheral blood (20), averaging ~2% of CD3+ lymphocytes (Fig. 1F).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > Early-life exposure to riboflavin-synthesizing commensals is required for MAIT cell development
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“Following stimulation, skin MAIT cells robustly produced IL-17A, but not IFNγ (Fig. 2A)”
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“we observed that in both cases, topical association expanded the cutaneous DN MAIT cell population and increased their production of IL-17A (Figs. 3A–D & S3B–D).”
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“association with the S. epidermidis ΔribD mutant failed to induce a MAIT cell response (Fig. 4C), even though the CD8+ and γδ T cell responses were conserved (Fig. S4B–C).”
§ MAIT cells are imprinted by the microbiota in early life and promote tissue repair > MR1-mediated presentation of riboflavin metabolites is necessary and sufficient for MAIT cell recognition of skin commensals
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“Thus, early-life exposure to commensals that produce defined metabolites, or to microbially derived metabolites alone, is required for MAIT cell development and their presence later in life.”
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“supporting the idea that homeostatic IL-23 contributes to MAIT cell development and/or accumulation within tissues.”
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“indicating that microbial exposure in early life is required for the development of tissue MAIT cells, but not the thymic developmental stages.”
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“Unless otherwise noted, age- and sex-matched mice between 6 and 12 weeks of age were used for each experiment.”
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“Dead cells were excluded from live samples using 4′, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindol (DAPI; Sigma-Aldrich), whereas either LIVE/DEAD Fixable Blue Dead Cell Stain Kit (Invitrogen Life Technologies) or Ghost Dye Violet 510 (Tonbo Biosciences) was used in fixed samples.”
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“HTO were read in and assigned to the single cells and only singlets were used for further analysis leaving 585 cells.”
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“Notably, we show that MAIT cells are induced during a specific early-life window in response to riboflavin-synthesizing commensals, a phenomenon that permanently imprints the abundance of this subset in tissues.”
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“Successful knockouts were confirmed by colony PCR and sequencing.”
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“All staining was performed in the presence of purified anti-mouse CD16/32 and purified rat gamma globulin (Jackson ImmunoResearch).”
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“Therefore, γδ T cells restrict the MAIT cell population at steady-state and constrain their response to commensals.”
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“Cells with less than 900 or more than 3,000 gene counts, more than 5% mitochondrial contamination, or more than 10,000 RNA counts were filtered out, leaving 5,678 cells for downstream analysis.”
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“In conclusion, our work proposes that a central strategy utilized by the immune system to interact with the microbiota may be via the recognition of canonical microbially derived antigens by unconventional T cells, including MAIT cells, a dialogue that may play a dominant role in the control of host physiology.”
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“In contrast to mice, human T cells develop in utero supporting the hypothesis that such early MAIT cell imprinting may occur prior to birth.”
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“The development and maturation of MAIT cells are dependent on microbiota, as demonstrated by reduced numbers of MAIT cells in GF mice, which can be restored through microbial colonization.”
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- Authors
- Constantinides, M. G., Link, V. M., Tamoutounour, S., Wong, A. C., Perez-Chaparro, P. J., Han, S.-J., Chen, Y. E., Li, K., Farhat, S., Weckel, A., Krishnamurthy, S. R., Vujkovic-Cvijin, I., Linehan, J. L., Bouladoux, N., Merrill, E. D., Roy, S., Cua, D. J., Adams, E. J., Bhandoola, A., Scharschmidt, T. C., Aubé, J., Fischbach, M. A., & Belkaid, Y.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- NIAID Microbiome Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
- Stanford University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) (US)
- Corresponding author
- Belkaid, Yasmine
- ORCID
- Constantinides, Michael G.
- Link, Verena M.
- Wong, Andrea C.
- Perez-Chaparro, P. Juliana
- Chen, Y. Erin
- Li, Kelin
- Weckel, Antonin
- Krishnamurthy, Siddharth R.
- Vujkovic-Cvijin, Ivan
- Linehan, Jonathan L.
- Bouladoux, Nicolas
- Merrill, E. Dean
- Roy, Sobhan
- Adams, Erin J.
- Bhandoola, Avinash
- Scharschmidt, Tiffany C.
- Aubé, Jeffrey
- Fischbach, Michael A.
- Belkaid, Yasmine
- Venue
- Science
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- 2019-10-25
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- 366
- Issue
- 6464
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- PMC7603427
- OpenAlex
- W2981494076
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- 567
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R01-DK110174, DP1-DK113598, U19-AI111143)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
- Cancer Research Institute
- European Molecular Biology Organization
- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (ZIA-AI001115, ZIA-AI001132)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis
- Keywords
- mucosal-associated invariant T cells, gut microbiota, MR1, riboflavin derivatives, thymus development, commensal bacteria, tissue repair, skin, mucosal immunity, microbial metabolites, germ-free mice
- MeSH terms
- Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells, Animals, Bacteria, Germ-Free Life, Humans, Interleukin-1, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Riboflavin, Skin, Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms, Wound Healing, Histocompatibility Antigens Class I, Minor Histocompatibility Antigens, Mice, Knockout, Interleukin-17, Interleukin-18, Mice, Interleukin-23, Microbiota
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-06, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-06 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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