Dysregulated lung commensal bacteria drive interleukin-17B production to promote pulmonary fibrosis through their outer membrane vesicles

With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the research team directed by Prof.Qian YouCun(钱友存)at Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,Chinese Academy of Sciences,recently reported that lung microbiota and interleukin-17B(IL-17B)are critical for pulmonary fibrosis pathogenesis,which was published in Immunity(2019,50:692—706).