Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Immunol. 2021 Nov 23;12:773280. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.773280. eCollection 2021.
Psoriasis represents multiple inflammatory processes and exaggerated physiological responses to epithelial damage by innate and adaptive immune components, thus it is critical to compare the immune cell niche in disease and healthy skin. Here, we inferred the proportions of different immune cell types in psoriatic and healthy skin using the CIBERSORT algorithm with expression profiles as input. As a result, we observed a dramatic change of immune cell profiles in psoriatic skin compared with healthy skin. Interestingly, the resting mast cells is almost eliminated in psoriatic skin. In contrast, the activated mast cells are enriched in psoriatic skin, indicating that mast cells activation may play an important role in psoriasis pathogenesis. In addition, we found that the proportion of the resting mast cells gradually come back to the normal level in lesioned skin upon etanercept treatment, suggesting that mast cells play a critical role in immune cell niche maintenance. Further experiments validated a significant decrease in mast cell population and an excessive mast cell activation in psoriatic skin compared with healthy skin. In conclusion, our integrative analyses of the immune cell profiles and the corresponding marker genes expression provide a better understanding of the inflammation response in psoriasis and important clues for clinical applications.
银屑病代表了多种炎症过程和先天及适应性免疫成分对上皮损伤的过度生理反应,因此比较疾病和健康皮肤中的免疫细胞生态位至关重要。在这里,我们使用 CIBERSORT 算法和表达谱作为输入,推断银屑病和健康皮肤中不同免疫细胞类型的比例。结果表明,与健康皮肤相比,银屑病皮肤中的免疫细胞谱发生了显著变化。有趣的是,静止的肥大细胞在银屑病皮肤中几乎被消除。相比之下,激活的肥大细胞在银屑病皮肤中富集,表明肥大细胞激活可能在银屑病发病机制中发挥重要作用。此外,我们发现依那西普治疗后皮损皮肤中静止肥大细胞的比例逐渐恢复到正常水平,提示肥大细胞在免疫细胞生态位维持中起关键作用。进一步的实验验证了与健康皮肤相比,肥大细胞在银屑病皮肤中的数量显著减少和过度激活。总之,我们对免疫细胞图谱和相应标记基因表达的综合分析,为理解银屑病中的炎症反应提供了更好的认识,并为临床应用提供了重要线索。