Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Regulation of monocyte cell fate by blood vessels mediated by Notch signalling

  • Jaba Gamrekelashvili,
  • Roberto Giagnorio,
  • Jasmin Jussofie,
  • Oliver Soehnlein,
  • Johan Duchene,
  • Carlos G. Briseño,
  • Saravana K. Ramasamy,
  • Kashyap Krishnasamy,
  • Anne Limbourg,
  • Christine Häger,
  • Tamar Kapanadze,
  • Chieko Ishifune,
  • Rabea Hinkel,
  • Freddy Radtke,
  • Lothar J. Strobl,
  • Ursula Zimber-Strobl,
  • L. Christian Napp,
  • Johann Bauersachs,
  • Hermann Haller,
  • Koji Yasutomo,
  • Christian Kupatt,
  • Kenneth M. Murphy,
  • Ralf H. Adams,
  • Christian Weber,
  • Florian P. Limbourg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12597
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Circulating Ly6Clo monocytes are thought to be derived from Ly6Chi subset. Here the authors show that Notch signalling is activated in Ly6Clocells and is required for their differentiation, and that Notch ligands that initiate this signalling are provided by a subset of endothelial cells.