Single-cell profiling of CNS border compartment leukocytes reveals that B cells and their progenitors reside in non-diseased meninges

Autor: Schafflick, David, Wolbert, Jolien, Heming, Michael, Thomas, Christian, Hartlehnert, Maike, Börsch, Anna-Lena, Ricci, Alessio, Martín-Salamanca, Sandra, Li, Xiaolin, Lu, I-Na, Pawlak, Mathias, Minnerup, Jens, Strecker, Jan-Kolja, Seidenbecher, Thomas, Meuth, Sven G., Hidalgo, Andres, Liesz, Arthur, Wiendl, Heinz, Meyer zu Horste, Gerd
Zdroj: Nature Neuroscience; September 2021, Vol. 24 Issue: 9 p1225-1234, 10p
Abstrakt: The CNS is ensheathed by the meninges and cerebrospinal fluid, and recent findings suggest that these CNS-associated border tissues have complex immunological functions. Unlike myeloid lineage cells, lymphocytes in border compartments have yet to be thoroughly characterized. Based on single-cell transcriptomics, we here identified a highly location-specific composition and expression profile of tissue-resident leukocytes in CNS parenchyma, pia-enriched subdural meninges, dura mater, choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid. The dura layer of the meninges contained a large population of B cells under homeostatic conditions in mice and rats. Murine dura B cells exhibited slow turnover and long-term tissue residency, and they matured in experimental neuroinflammation. The dura also contained B lineage progenitors at the pro-B cell stage typically not found outside of bone marrow, without direct influx from the periphery or the skull bone marrow. This identified the dura as an unexpected site of B cell residence and potentially of development in both homeostasis and neuroinflammation.
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