Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, No.246 Xuefu Road, 150001, Harbin, China.
Institute of Biotechnology, HILIFE Unit, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
Cell Death Dis. 2021 May 6;12(5):450. doi: 10.1038/s41419-021-03724-6.
Psoriasis is the most common skin disease in adults. Current experimental and clinical evidences suggested the infiltrating immune cells could target local skin cells and thus induce psoriatic phenotype. However, recent studies indicated the existence of a potential feedback signaling loop from local resident skin cells to infiltrating immune cells. Here, we deconstructed the full-thickness human skins of both healthy donors and patients with psoriasis vulgaris at single cell transcriptional level, and further built a neural-network classifier to evaluate the evolutional conservation of skin cell types between mouse and human. Last, we systematically evaluated the intrinsic and intercellular molecular alterations of each cell type between healthy and psoriatic skin. Cross-checking with psoriasis susceptibility gene loci, cell-type based differential expression, and ligand-receptor communication revealed that the resident psoriatic skin cells including mesenchymal and epidermis cell types, which specifically harbored the target genes of psoriasis susceptibility loci, intensively evoked the expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, upregulated interferon (INF), tumor necrosis factor (TNF) signalling and increased cytokine gene expression for primarily aiming the neighboring dendritic cells in psoriasis. The comprehensive exploration and pathological observation of psoriasis patient biopsies proposed an uncovered immunoregulatory axis from skin local resident cells to immune cells, thus provided a novel insight for psoriasis treatment. In addition, we published a user-friendly website to exhibit the transcriptional change of each cell type between healthy and psoriatic human skin.
银屑病是成年人中最常见的皮肤病。目前的实验和临床证据表明,浸润免疫细胞可以靶向局部皮肤细胞,从而诱导银屑病表型。然而,最近的研究表明,局部常驻皮肤细胞向浸润免疫细胞存在潜在的反馈信号环路。在这里,我们在单细胞转录水平上对健康供体和寻常型银屑病患者的全厚皮肤进行了解构,并进一步构建了一个神经网络分类器,以评估皮肤细胞类型在小鼠和人类之间的进化保守性。最后,我们系统地评估了健康和银屑病皮肤中每个细胞类型的内在和细胞间分子变化。与银屑病易感基因座、基于细胞类型的差异表达和配体-受体通讯的交叉检查表明,包括间充质和表皮细胞类型在内的常驻银屑病皮肤细胞特异性地携带银屑病易感基因座的靶基因,强烈地诱导了主要组织相容性复合体 (MHC) 基因的表达,上调了干扰素 (INF)、肿瘤坏死因子 (TNF) 信号,并增加了细胞因子基因的表达,主要针对银屑病中的相邻树突状细胞。对银屑病患者活检的全面探索和病理观察提出了一条从皮肤局部常驻细胞到免疫细胞的未被发现的免疫调节轴,为银屑病的治疗提供了新的见解。此外,我们还发布了一个用户友好的网站,展示健康和银屑病人皮肤之间每个细胞类型的转录变化。
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