Cutaneous Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Come in Distinct FlavorsClinical Implications

Abstract

In a new article published in JID Innovations, Nakatani-Kusakabe et al. (2021) show that type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) in the skin of mice with IL-33 overexpression in keratinocytes are heterogeneous and consist of two distinct populations: skin-resident ILC2s and circulating ILC2s. They show that the circulating subset of skin ILC2s migrates to draining lymph nodes during hapten-induced cutaneous inflammation to potentially enhance the adaptive immune response.