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Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis

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Yona, Simon, Kim, Ki-Wook, Wolf, Yochai, Mildner, Alexander, Varol, Diana, Breker, Michal, Strauss-Ayali, Dalit, Viukov, Sergey +7 more·2013·Immunity

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Mononuclear phagocytes, including monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells, contribute to tissue integrity as well as to innate and adaptive immune defense. Emerging evidence for labor division indicates that manipulation of these cells could bear therapeutic potential. However, specific ontogenies of individual populations and the overall functional organization of this cellular network are not well defined. Here we report a fate-mapping study of the murine monocyte and macrophage compartment taking advantage of constitutive and conditional CX(3)CR1 promoter-driven Cre recombinase expression. We have demonstrated that major tissue-resident macrophage populations, including liver Kupffer cells and lung alveolar, splenic, and peritoneal macrophages, are established prior to birth and maintain themselves subsequently during adulthood independent of replenishment by blood monocytes. Furthermore, we have established that short-lived Ly6C(+) monocytes constitute obligatory steady-state precursors of blood-resident Ly6C(-) cells and that the abundance of Ly6C(+) blood monocytes dynamically controls the circulation lifespan of their progeny.

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  • Cx3cr1 was particularly enriched in myeloid cluster 1, together with proinflammatory genes such as Il1b.

    “Cx3cr1, which marks both monocyte-derived and resident macrophages20-22, was particularly enriched in cluster 1, together with proinflammatory genes such as Il1b (Fig. 1J).”

    From Chromatin remodelling drives immune cell–fibroblast communication in heart failure (2024) · cites this paper as [20]

    The Introduction describes CX3CR1 expression in monocytes, and Results > Dual origins of resident macrophages identifies CX3CR1-positive resident macrophages (no page number provided). These passages support the marker’s relevance to both populations, but do not establish that it marks monocyte-derived macrophages specifically. The cluster 1 and Il1b findings are attributed to the citing paper’s Figure 1J, not to this source. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • The majority of peripheral immune cells that express Cx3cr1 are short lived and turn over within 4 weeks because of ongoing, lifelong hematopoiesis.

    “However, the majority of these peripheral cells are short lived and turn over within 4 weeks because of ongoing, lifelong hematopoiesis.10–12”

    From A comparative analysis of microglial inducible Cre lines (2023) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Discussion reports short lifespans for CX3CR1-expressing blood monocytes and says classical dendritic cells are continually renewed by bone-marrow hematopoiesis. It does not establish that a majority of all peripheral CX3CR1-expressing cells turn over within four weeks; the Introduction says several tissue-resident macrophage populations persist without monocyte replenishment. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Ly6Clo monocytes differentiate from recruited CCR2+Ly6Chi monocytes in bloodstream.

    “Ly6Clo monocytes, which differentiate from recruited CCR2+Ly6Chi monocytes in the bloodstream, would no longer be recruited to this function [323, 359]”
  • Tissue resident macrophages sustain their local populations by rapid proliferation during injury events.

    “These tissue resident macrophages sustain their local populations by rapid proliferation during injury events (Fig. 2b) [13].”
  • A significant expansion of Pdgfra+ fibroblasts after bleomycin treatment has been reported in a study analyzing the fibroblast compartment in this fibrosis model.

    “a significant expansion of Pdgfra+ fibroblasts after bleomycin treatment has been reported in a study analyzing the fibroblast compartment in this model of fibrosis 35”

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Authors
Yona, S., Kim, K.-W., Wolf, Y., Mildner, A., Varol, D., Breker, M., Strauss-Ayali, D., Viukov, S., Guilliams, M., Misharin, A., Hume, D. A., Perlman, H., Malissen, B., Zelzer, E., & Jung, S.
Affiliations
  • Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • Roslin Institute (GB)
Corresponding author
Jung, Steffen
Venue
Immunity
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-01
Volume
38
Issue
1
Pages
79-91
ISSN
1074-7613 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2153406260
Cited by
3,245
References
72
Citations by year
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FWCI
58.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2013-05-23)
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  • Immunity (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
  • Minerva Foundation
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-EQPX-0011)
  • Israel Science Foundation
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBS/E/D/20251969, BBS/E/D/20221657)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R21AI092490)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR050250, R01AR054796)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
Keywords
monocytes, tissue macrophages, monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation, Kupffer cells, alveolar macrophages, splenic macrophages, peritoneal macrophages, Ly6C+ monocytes, CX3CR1, fate mapping, mononuclear phagocytes, tissue homeostasis
MeSH terms
CX3C Chemokine Receptor 1, Animals, Antigens, Ly, Homeostasis, Macrophages, Mice, Transgenic, Monocytes, Immunophenotyping, Receptors, Chemokine, Myeloid Progenitor Cells, Mice

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