Characterization and Transcriptomic Analysis of Porcine Blood Conventional and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Reveals Striking Species-Specific Differences.

Auray, Gael; Keller, Irene; Python, Sylvie; Gerber, Markus Daniel; Bruggmann, Rémy; Ruggli, Nicolas; Summerfield, Artur (2016). Characterization and Transcriptomic Analysis of Porcine Blood Conventional and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Reveals Striking Species-Specific Differences. Journal of immunology, 197(12), pp. 4791-4806. American Association of Immunologists 10.4049/jimmunol.1600672

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Porcine dendritic cells (DCs) are relatively well characterized, but a clear-cut identification of all DC subsets combined with full transcriptional profiling was lacking, preventing an unbiased insight into the functional specializations of DC subsets. Using a large panel of Abs in multicolor flow cytometry, cell sorting, and RNA sequencing we identified and characterized the porcine equivalent of conventional DCs (cDC) 1 and cDC2 as well as plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) in the peripheral blood of pigs. We demonstrate that cDC1 are CD135(+)CD14(-)CD172a(low)CADM1(+)wCD11R1(+) cells, cDC2 are CD135(+)CD14(-)CD172a(+)CADM1(+)CD115(+)wCD11R1(+)CD1(+) cells and pDCs are CD4(+)CD135(+)CD172a(+)CD123(+)CD303(+) cells. As described in other species, only cDC1 express BATF3 and XCR1, cDC2 express FCER1A and FCGR2B, and only pDCs express TCF4 and NRP1 Nevertheless, despite these cross-species conserved subset-specific transcripts, porcine pDCs differed from the species described so far in many expressed genes and transcriptomic profiling clustered pDCs more distantly from cDCs than monocytes. The response of porcine DC subsets to TLR ligands revealed that pDCs are by far the most important source of TNF-α, IL-12p40, and of course IFN-α, whereas cDCs are most efficient in MHC and costimulatory molecule expression. Nevertheless, upregulation of CD40 and CD86 in cDCs was critically influenced or even dependent on the presence of pDCs, particularly for TLR 7 and 9 ligands. Our data demonstrate that extrapolation of data on DC biology from one species to another has to be done with care, and it shows how functional details have evolved differentially in different species.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

05 Veterinary Medicine > Research Foci > Host-Pathogen Interaction
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Virology and Immunology
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology > Bioinformatics
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

UniBE Contributor:

Auray, Gael, Keller, Irene (B), Gerber, Markus Daniel, Bruggmann, Rémy, Ruggli, Nicolas, Summerfield, Artur

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture

ISSN:

0022-1767

Publisher:

American Association of Immunologists

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pamela Schumacher

Date Deposited:

24 Apr 2017 10:45

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:35

Publisher DOI:

10.4049/jimmunol.1600672

PubMed ID:

27837108

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.96150

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/96150

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