Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15937-y
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- NC3Rs
- BBSRC
- CRUK
- Rosetree Trust
- King's Health Partners
- Institut Curie, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Labex DCBIOL [ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL, ANR-11-LABX0043]
- SIRIC [INCa-DGOS-Inserm_12554]
- ANR JCJC [ANR-17-CE15-0004]
- [BBSRC-BB/M029735/1]
- [CRUK-CIPA C57672/A22369]
- [WWCR-18-0422]
- [ANR-18-IDEX-0001]
- [ANR-17-CE11-0001-01]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-17-CE11-0001, ANR-17-CE15-0004] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- BBSRC [BB/M029735/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Classical dendritic cells (cDCs) are rare sentinel cells specialized in the regulation of adaptive immunity. Modeling cDC development is crucial to study cDCs and harness their therapeutic potential. Here we address whether cDCs could differentiate in response to trophic cues delivered by mesenchymal components of the hematopoietic niche. We find that mesenchymal stromal cells engineered to express membrane-bound FLT3L and stem cell factor (SCF) together with CXCL12 induce the specification of human cDCs from CD34(+) hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Engraftment of engineered mesenchymal stromal cells (eMSCs) together with CD34(+) HSPCs creates an in vivo synthetic niche in the dermis of immunodeficient mice driving the differentiation of cDCs and CD123(+)AXL(+)CD327(+) pre/AS-DCs. cDC2s generated in vivo display higher levels of resemblance with human blood cDCs unattained by in vitro-generated subsets. Altogether, eMSCs provide a unique platform recapitulating the full spectrum of cDC subsets enabling their functional characterization in vivo. Classical human dendritic cells (cDCs) are rare sentinel cells specialized in regulating adaptive immunity. Here, the authors show that expression of membrane bound FLT3L, along with stem cell factor (SCF) and CXCL12 in stromal cells induces specification of pre/AS-DCs, type 1 and type2 cDC from haematopoietic stem cells.
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