Luis Sifuentes-Dominguez, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Luis Sifuentes-Dominguez is studying basic mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease. He is supported by a departmental, NIH-sponsored Child Health Research Career Development Award and is working closely with Dr. Ezra Burstein in UT Southwestern’s Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology to understand the molecular basis of early-onset IBD. Using cutting-edge genomic and proteomic approaches, together they have identified novel genes that play a role in early-onset IBD. Education Medical School Universidad La Salle Medical School (2005) Residency Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez (2008), Pediatrics Residency University of Connecticut Health Center (2012), Pediatrics Fellowship UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2015), Pediatric Gastroenterology Research Interest Identifying the genetic causes of early onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Role of enteroendocrine cells in inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis Publications Featured Publications CAPTURE IBD: Advancing Precision Medicine in Pediatric IBD. Subedi S, Albenbergl LG, Bass JA, Bauman L, Chevalier R, Egberg M, Goyal A, Hoffenberg E, Huang J, Kelsen JR, Kugathasan S, Minar P, Niklinska-Schirtz BJ, Ouahed J, Perry CE, Rabizadeh S, Rosen MJ, Santolaya J, Sauer CG, Shapiro JM, Sifuentes-Domingue L, Sylvester F, Villarreal M, Weaver SA, Whaley KG, Ziring D, de Zoeten EF, Kahn SA, Inflamm Bowel Dis 2025 Nov Interaction between the gut microbiota and colonic enteroendocrine cells regulates host metabolism. Tan S, Santolaya JL, Wright TF, Liu Q, Fujikawa T, Chi S, Bergstrom CP, Lopez A, Chen Q, Vale G, McDonald JG, Schmidt A, Vo N, Kim J, Baniasadi H, Li L, Zhu G, He TC, Zhan X, Obata Y, Jin A, Jia D, Elmquist JK, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Burstein E, Nat Metab 2024 May Small proline-rich protein 2A is a gut bactericidal protein deployed during helminth infection. Hu Z, Zhang C, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Zarek CM, Propheter DC, Kuang Z, Wang Y, Pendse M, Ruhn KA, Hassell B, Behrendt CL, Zhang B, Raj P, Harris-Tryon TA, Reese TA, Hooper LV, Science 2021 11 374 6568 eabe6723 Paneth cell-derived growth factors support tumorigenesis in the small intestine. Chen Q, Suzuki K, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Miyata N, Song J, Lopez A, Starokadomskyy P, Gopal P, Dozmorov I, Tan S, Ge B, Burstein E, Life Sci Alliance 2021 Mar 4 3 Structural and mechanistic insights into secretagogin-mediated exocytosis. Qin J, Liu Q, Liu Z, Pan YZ, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Stepien KP, Wang Y, Tu Y, Tan S, Wang Y, Sun Q, Mo X, Rizo J, Burstein E, Jia D, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2020 Mar 117 12 6559-6570 NK cell defects in X-linked pigmentary reticulate disorder. Starokadomskyy P, Wilton KM, Krzewski K, Lopez A, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Overlee B, Chen Q, Ray A, Gil-Krzewska A, Peterson M, Kinch LN, Rohena L, Grunebaum E, Zinn AR, Grishin NV, Billadeau DD, Burstein E, JCI Insight 2019 Nov 4 21 SCGN deficiency results in colitis susceptibility. Sifuentes-Dominguez LF, Li H, Llano E, Liu Z, Singla A, Patel AS, Kathania M, Khoury A, Norris N, Rios JJ, Starokadomskyy P, Park JY, Gopal P, Liu Q, Tan S, Chan L, Ross T, Harrison S, Venuprasad K, Baker LA, Jia D, Burstein E, Elife 2019 Oct 8 Editing of the gut microbiota reduces carcinogenesis in mouse models of colitis-associated colorectal cancer. Zhu W, Miyata N, Winter MG, Arenales A, Hughes ER, Spiga L, Kim J, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Starokadomskyy P, Gopal P, Byndloss MX, Santos RL, Burstein E, Winter SE, J. Exp. Med. 2019 Jul Mosaic Tetrasomy 9p Associated With Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Starokadomskyy P, Welch J, Gurram B, Park JY, Koduru P, Burstein E, J Crohns Colitis 2019 Apr Microbial Sensing by Intestinal Myeloid Cells Controls Carcinogenesis and Epithelial Differentiation. Miyata N, Morris LL, Chen Q, Thorne C, Singla A, Zhu W, Winter M, Melton SD, Li H, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Llano E, Huff-Hardy K, Starokadomskyy P, Lopez A, Reese TA, Turer E, Billadeau DD, Winter SE, Burstein E Cell Rep 2018 Aug 24 9 2342-2355 Results 1-10 of 15 1 2 Next Last Honors & Awards Excellence in Research AwardUTSW Department of Pediatrics Senior Fellows Research Day (2015) W.W. Caruth ScholarChildren's Medical Center Foundation (2015) Endoscopy PrizeNASPGHAN (2014) Teaching Resident AwardUniversity of Connecticut School of Medicine (2012) Professional Associations/Affiliations Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, North Texas Dallas Chapter Medical Advisory Committee (2016) Member, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (2014) Member, North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (2012)
