Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Environmental signals rather than layered ontogeny imprint the function of type 2 conventional dendritic cells in young and adult mice

  • Nikos E. Papaioannou,
  • Natallia Salei,
  • Stephan Rambichler,
  • Kaushikk Ravi,
  • Jelena Popovic,
  • Vanessa Küntzel,
  • Christian H. K. Lehmann,
  • Remi Fiancette,
  • Johanna Salvermoser,
  • Dominika W. Gajdasik,
  • Ramona Mettler,
  • Denise Messerer,
  • Joana Carrelha,
  • Caspar Ohnmacht,
  • Dirk Haller,
  • Ralf Stumm,
  • Tobias Straub,
  • Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen,
  • Christian Schulz,
  • David R. Withers,
  • Gunnar Schotta,
  • Diana Dudziak,
  • Barbara U. Schraml

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20659-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Type 2 conventional dendritic cells (cDC2) are important immune activators in adults, but their development and functions at the neonatal stage remain unclear. Here the authors show, using fate-mapping and single-cell RNA sequencing, that neonatal cDC2 come from multiple origins, but converge functionally as potent immune activators upon proper stimuli.