Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK.
School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK.
J Exp Med. 2018 Jun 4;215(6):1507-1518. doi: 10.1084/jem.20180019. Epub 2018 May 22.
A defining feature of resident gut macrophages is their high replenishment rate from blood monocytes attributed to tonic commensal stimulation of this site. In contrast, almost all other tissues contain locally maintained macrophage populations, which coexist with monocyte-replenished cells at homeostasis. In this study, we identified three transcriptionally distinct mouse gut macrophage subsets that segregate based on expression of Tim-4 and CD4. Challenging current understanding, Tim-4CD4 gut macrophages were found to be locally maintained, while Tim-4CD4 macrophages had a slow turnover from blood monocytes; indeed, Tim-4CD4 macrophages were the only subset with the high monocyte-replenishment rate currently attributed to gut macrophages. Moreover, all macrophage subpopulations required live microbiota to sustain their numbers, not only those derived from blood monocytes. These findings oppose the prevailing paradigm that all macrophages in the adult mouse gut rapidly turn over from monocytes in a microbiome-dependent manner; instead, these findings supplant it with a model of ontogenetic diversity where locally maintained subsets coexist with rapidly replaced monocyte-derived populations.
驻留肠道巨噬细胞的一个特征是,它们具有较高的血液单核细胞补充率,这归因于该部位的共生刺激。相比之下,几乎所有其他组织都含有局部维持的巨噬细胞群体,它们在体内平衡时与单核细胞补充的细胞共存。在这项研究中,我们鉴定了三个转录上不同的小鼠肠道巨噬细胞亚群,这些亚群根据 Tim-4 和 CD4 的表达进行分离。与当前的理解相反,Tim-4CD4 肠道巨噬细胞被发现是局部维持的,而 Tim-4CD4 巨噬细胞则从血液单核细胞中缓慢更替;事实上,Tim-4CD4 巨噬细胞是唯一具有目前归因于肠道巨噬细胞的高单核细胞补充率的亚群。此外,所有巨噬细胞亚群都需要活的微生物群来维持其数量,不仅是那些来自血液单核细胞的巨噬细胞。这些发现反对了一种流行的观点,即成年小鼠肠道中的所有巨噬细胞都以依赖微生物群的方式从单核细胞中快速更替;相反,这些发现用一个个体发生多样性的模型取代了它,其中局部维持的亚群与快速更替的单核细胞衍生群体共存。
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