Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Deletion of a Csf1r enhancer selectively impacts CSF1R expression and development of tissue macrophage populations

  • Rocío Rojo,
  • Anna Raper,
  • Derya D. Ozdemir,
  • Lucas Lefevre,
  • Kathleen Grabert,
  • Evi Wollscheid-Lengeling,
  • Barry Bradford,
  • Melanie Caruso,
  • Iveta Gazova,
  • Alejandra Sánchez,
  • Zofia M. Lisowski,
  • Joana Alves,
  • Irene Molina-Gonzalez,
  • Hayk Davtyan,
  • Rebecca J. Lodge,
  • James D. Glover,
  • Robert Wallace,
  • David A. D. Munro,
  • Eyal David,
  • Ido Amit,
  • Véronique E. Miron,
  • Josef Priller,
  • Stephen J. Jenkins,
  • Giles E. Hardingham,
  • Mathew Blurton-Jones,
  • Neil A. Mabbott,
  • Kim M. Summers,
  • Peter Hohenstein,
  • David A. Hume,
  • Clare Pridans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11053-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The lineage-specific receptor CSF1R controls macrophage development and homeostasis. Here the authors show that deletion of a conserved Csf1r enhancer (FIRE) selectively depletes brain microglia and resident macrophages in the epidermis, kidney, heart and peritoneum of otherwise healthy mice.