This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/FEBS.15236 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved Host engulfment pathway controls inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Ibrahim M Sayed 1 * $ , Katherine Suarez 1 *, Eileen Lim 1 *, Sujay Singh 1 *, Matheus Pereira 1 , Stella-Rita Ibeawuchi 1 , Gajanan Katkar 3 , Ying Dunkel 2 , Yash Mittal 2 , Ranajoy Chattopadhyay 3 , Monica Guma 2 , Brigid S. Boland 2 , Parambir S. Dulai 2 , William J. Sandborn 2 , Pradipta Ghosh 2, 3 , Soumita Das 1 1 Department of Pathology, 2 Department of Medicine, 3 Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine University of California San Diego; San Diego, USA * contributed equally $ Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt Accepted Article Address correspondence to Soumita Das Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0644, San Diego, CA, 92093-0644, USA Phone 858-246-2062, Email: sodas@ucsd.edu Running title: The role of ELMO1 in IBD