Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Mouse fetal growth restriction through parental and fetal immune gene variation and intercellular communications cascade

  • Gurman Kaur,
  • Caroline B. M. Porter,
  • Orr Ashenberg,
  • Jack Lee,
  • Samantha J. Riesenfeld,
  • Matan Hofree,
  • Maria Aggelakopoulou,
  • Ayshwarya Subramanian,
  • Subita Balaram Kuttikkatte,
  • Kathrine E. Attfield,
  • Christiane A. E. Desel,
  • Jessica L. Davies,
  • Hayley G. Evans,
  • Inbal Avraham-Davidi,
  • Lan T. Nguyen,
  • Danielle A. Dionne,
  • Anna E. Neumann,
  • Lise Torp Jensen,
  • Thomas R. Barber,
  • Elizabeth Soilleux,
  • Mary Carrington,
  • Gil McVean,
  • Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen,
  • Aviv Regev,
  • Lars Fugger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32171-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 25

Abstract

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Natural Killer cells regulate foetal growth. Here the authors use a humanized transgenic mouse to demonstrate that specific HLA-C KIR2DL interactions promote changes in maternal and foetal cell transcriptomes, resulting in modifications to placental vasculature, intercellular communications and foetal growth restriction.