嗜酸性粒细胞在不断演变的肉芽肿中的一个主要生态位挑战了将嗜酸性粒细胞视为“杀蠕虫细胞”的观点。
A major ecological niche of eosinophils in evolving granulomas challenges the eosinophil view as "helminth killer" cells.
作者信息
Barata Luccas M, Malta Kássia K, Neves Vitor H, Palazzi Cinthia, Oliveira-Barros Eliane G, Aguiar Yasmin, Kneip Felipe, Marcelino Bruno A, Carmo Lívia A S, Audi-Gazeta João Felipe, Santos Pedro H S, Milani Maria Karolynna B, Paula Michelle C A, Toscano Eliana C B, Gentile Rosana, Dias Felipe F, Silva Thiago P, Melo Rossana C N
机构信息
Laboratory of Cellular Biology, Department of Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-900, Brazil.
Cell Biology Graduate Program, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
出版信息
Sci Adv. 2025 Jun 13;11(24):eadt2779. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adt2779. Epub 2025 Jun 11.
Eosinophil-rich granulomas, formed around tissue-trapped parasite eggs, are hallmarks of schistosomiasis mansoni, a prevalent neglected tropical disease. How eosinophils populate and affect the complex granulomas remains unclear. Here, we mapped eosinophils across evolutional hepatic granulomas in a mouse model and in a primary wild reservoir for human schistosomiasis in Brazil (water rat ). With in-depth quantitative image analysis and three-dimensional histological reconstructions of entire granulomas, we find that eosinophils are spatially organized and occupy a major, peripheral niche conserved across space and time in all granuloma stages and both experimental and natural infections. Within this niche, immature and mature eosinophils coinhabit, compartmentalize their major basic protein-1 content, robustly interact with other immune cells, and secrete through piecemeal degranulation. This unveiled niche, unrelated to parasite eggs, challenges the concept of eosinophil as a "helminth killer" cell and invigorates its view as an immunoregulatory cell of the tissue microenvironment in granulomas.
富含嗜酸性粒细胞的肉芽肿围绕着组织中捕获的寄生虫卵形成,是曼氏血吸虫病的标志,这是一种普遍存在的被忽视的热带疾病。嗜酸性粒细胞如何在复杂的肉芽肿中聚集并产生影响仍不清楚。在这里,我们在小鼠模型以及巴西人类血吸虫病的主要野生宿主(水鼠)中,绘制了嗜酸性粒细胞在进化性肝脏肉芽肿中的分布图。通过对整个肉芽肿进行深入的定量图像分析和三维组织学重建,我们发现嗜酸性粒细胞在空间上是有组织的,并且在所有肉芽肿阶段以及实验性和自然感染中,都占据着一个主要的外周生态位,该生态位在空间和时间上都是保守的。在这个生态位内,未成熟和成熟的嗜酸性粒细胞共同存在,将它们的主要碱性蛋白-1含量进行分隔,与其他免疫细胞强烈相互作用,并通过颗粒外排进行分泌。这个新发现的与寄生虫卵无关的生态位,挑战了嗜酸性粒细胞作为“蠕虫杀手”细胞的概念,并强化了其作为肉芽肿组织微环境免疫调节细胞的观点。