Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Postnatal expansion of mesenteric lymph node stromal cells towards reticular and CD34+ stromal cell subsets

  • Joern Pezoldt,
  • Carolin Wiechers,
  • Mangge Zou,
  • Maria Litovchenko,
  • Marjan Biocanin,
  • Michael Beckstette,
  • Katarzyna Sitnik,
  • Martina Palatella,
  • Guido van Mierlo,
  • Wanze Chen,
  • Vincent Gardeux,
  • Stefan Floess,
  • Maria Ebel,
  • Julie Russeil,
  • Panagiota Arampatzi,
  • Ehsan Vafardanejad,
  • Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba,
  • Bart Deplancke,
  • Jochen Huehn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34868-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Lymph nodes in various locations of the body differ in their cell composition and gene expression signatures. Here authors show that the rapid postnatal expansion of lymph nodes is governed by CD34 + stromal cells and fibroblastic reticular stromal cell progenitors, distinguished by intrinsic, microbiome-independent core epigenetic blueprints.