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Fate Mapping Analysis Reveals That Adult Microglia Derive from Primitive Macrophages
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Primitive Origins for Microglia: Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system and are associated with neurodegeneration and brain inflammatory diseases. Although the developmental origins of other tissue macrophage populations are well established, the origins of microglia remain controversial. Ginhoux et al. (p. 841 , published online 21 October) used in vivo lineage tracing studies to show that microglia arise early in mouse development and derive from primitive macrophages in the yolk sac. This is in contrast to other cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system, which arise later in development from a distinct progenitor population.
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“Two weeks after injection, CSF1R knockout brains had been partially repopulated with CD11b+ CD45+ cells (Fig. S7B), which are absent from non-engrafted brains (Ginhoux et al., 2010).”
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“We identified eleven TFs upregulated in PS19 mice that are implicated in mediating the inflammatory responses (Stat1, Stat3, Stat5a, Stat5b, Nfkb1, Nfe2l2, Fli1), microglia proliferation and differentiation (Irf8, Spi1, Runx1), and astrocyte maturation and neurogenesis (Pax6) (Ginhoux et al., 2010; Kierdorf et al., 2013; Zamanian et al., 2012; Zusso et al., 2012).”
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“Importantly, microglia originate from the yolk sac during early embryonic development, whereas peripheral macrophages originate from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow (19).”
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“microglia are uniformly CX3CR1+ from early embryonic time points through adulthood (Cardona et al., 2006; Ginhoux et al., 2010; Schulz et al., 2012)”
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“It is believed that microglia arise from yolk sac erythromyeloid precursors and migrate into the brain parenchyma during early development [43,44,45].”
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“Microglia share much of their genetic make-up, complement of proteins, and function, with other immune cells, particularly macrophages [129]”
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“aging, vascular dysfunction, and chronic neuroinflammation are known to compromise the integrity of the blood–brain barrier. This can lead to increased trafficking of peripheral immune cells as well as the above-mentioned microglial replacement of resident microglia by peripheral monocytes [24,36].”
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“Microglia originate from primitive macrophage (M F ) progenitors that arise in the yolk sac (YS), infiltrate the developing brain and clonally expand 2,3 .”
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“In mice, two waves of embryonic macrophages are produced in the yolk sac blood islands at embryonic day 7.5 (E7.5) and E8.25, and the first wave migrate into the developing brain and differentiate to microglia (Ginhoux et al., 2010, Gomez Perdiguero et al., 2015, Hoeffel et al., 2015, Palis et al., 1999).”
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“This lineage is mainly regulated by CSFR14 and its ligand, IL-347.”
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“Our findings are consistent with reports that macrophage progenitors develop from the primitive ectoderm of the yolk sac4 and give rise to tissue macrophages that do not have a monocytic progenitor16,17.”
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“To provide this niche, we used CSF1R knockout animals, which lack microglia (Ginhoux et al., 2010) (schematic in Fig. 7A).”
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“In mice, fate-mapping methods revealed that, unlike other glia cells with neuroectoderm origin, microglia in adults originate from yolk-sac (YS)-derived primitive macrophages, which colonize the developing brain rudiment during early embryogenesis (Ginhoux et al., 2010; Schulz et al., 2012).”
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“Microglia are the primary resident immune cells of the CNS parenchyma and are seeded during development from mesodermal progenitors”
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“These cells arise from uncommitted KIT+ erythromyeloid precursors [181, 316], which seed the brain from the yolk sac at embryonic day 9.5 in the mouse [126], well before other glial cells and the formation of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) [130, 181].”
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“Microglia and monocytes are ontogenetically distinct: microglia derive from yolk-sac progenitors during embryogenesis (Ginhoux et al., 2010; Schulz et al., 2012)”
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“In addition, IL-34 is newly identified ligand for CSF-1R, and it is reported to support maintenance of microglia [14].”
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“Our own work (Buchrieser et al., 2017) and that of others (Hoeffel et al., 2015) indicates that this protocol produces MYB-independent myeloid cells, recapitulating an embryonic ontogeny, and lineage-tracking studies in mouse have demonstrated that microglia derive from primitive, yolk sac macrophages that migrate into the developing brain (Ginhoux et al., 2010, Ginhoux et al., 2013).”
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“adult microglia derive from primitive macrophages4 in a Myb-independent manner5 via PU.1 and IRF8 dependent pathways6.”
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“Subsequent reports showed that microglia arise early during development from progenitors in the embryonic yolk sac4,38,39.”
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“Bone marrow–derived myeloid precursors do not contribute to the microglia pool.”
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“Fate-mapping studies have demonstrated that microglia originate from early myeloid progenitors in the embryonic yolk sac that migrate into the developing neural tube, where they proliferate, colonize the entire parenchyma, and subsist throughout the life span of the organism by slow division (1, 2).”
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“Normal blood circulation is required for YS macrophage seeding of the CNS.”
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“This observation supports the idea that the recruitment of YS progenitors into the brain is mediated by blood circulation.”
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“it is now well-established that microglia are derived from yolk sac (YS) erythromyeloid precursors (EMPs).”
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“The origin of microglia has now been clearly defined and shown to relate to the early colonization of the CNS by mesodermal progenitors6 that arise from the yolk sac7,8”
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“the cytokine CSF1, acting via its receptor CSF1R, is important for microglial development8.”
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“Microglia arise from yolk sac-derived precursors that populate the brain during early development21.”
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“Several groups have attempted different cell culture conditions to maintain homeostatic microglia signature and ramified morphology In vitro using a variety of cytokines, such as CSF1, GM-CSF, TGFβ, and IL-34 [73-76].”
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“However, generation of microglia-like cells matching the recently identified signatures of acutely isolated microglia 10,11, and following their non-monocytic yolk sac ontogeny 4, has not been reported from pluripotent human cells.”
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“They emigrate as erythromyeloid precursors or primitive macrophages from the yolk sac, before further hematopoiesis takes place in the periphery.”
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“recent genetic lineage tracing in the mouse determined that microglia take up residence in the developing neural tube shortly before closure of the blood-brain barrier 4.”
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“Elegant lineage tracing studies show that microglia originate from yolk sac erythromyeloid progenitors (EMP) generated during primitive hematopoiesis (Ginhoux et al., 2010; Kierdorf et al., 2013; Schulz et al., 2012).”
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“They are derived from embryonic yolk sac (YS) precursors and maintain their CNS population via local self-renewal, with little contribution from bone marrow-derived monocytes12,13.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ginhoux, F., Greter, M., Leboeuf, M., Nandi, S., See, P., Gokhan, S., Mehler, M. F., Conway, S. J., Ng, L. G., Stanley, E. R., Samokhvalov, I. M., & Merad, M.
- Affiliations
- Singapore Immunology Network (SG)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine and the Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA.
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Institute for Brain Disorders and Neural Regeneration, Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
- Indiana University Indianapolis (US)
- RIKEN (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Ginhoux, Florent
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-11-05
- Volume
- 330
- Issue
- 6005
- Pages
- 841-845
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3719181
- OpenAlex
- W2148898943
- Cited by
- 5,175
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 87.47
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
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- IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (CA26504)
- RIKEN
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL086899, R01HL086899, R01HL060714)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH066290, MH66290)
- National Cancer Institute (CA-32551, R01CA032551, R37CA026504, R01CA112100, CA26504, CA112100, R01CA026504)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI080884, R01AI080884)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS38902, R01NS038902)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Keywords
- myeloid progenitor cells, CSF-1, CSF-1 receptor, reticuloendothelial system, hematopoietic progenitor cells, lineage tracing, neuroinflammation, neurodegenerative diseases
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Cell Differentiation, Embryo, Mammalian, Female, Hematopoiesis, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Homeostasis, Macrophages, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Yolk Sac, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Microglia, Cell Lineage, Myeloid Progenitor Cells, Cell Proliferation, Core Binding Factor Alpha 2 Subunit, Mice, Gene Knock-In Techniques
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