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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22973-9
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- NIH/NIAID [R24AI072073]
- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
- Medical Faculty Heidelberg
- German Society for Rheumatology (DGRh)
- Joint Biology Consortium microgrants from parent [P30AR070253]
- Arthritis National Research Foundation
- Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Program in Rheumatology
- NIH/NIAMS [P30AR070253, R01AR065538, R01AR075906, R01AR073201, R21AR076630, R56AR065538]
- NIH/NHLBI [R21HL150575]
- Lupus Research Alliance Target Identification in Lupus Grant
- Fundacion Bechara
- Arbuckle Family Fund for Arthritis Research
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Neutrophils exhibit a single developmental spectrum, ranging from immature pre-neutrophils in the bone marrow to mature neutrophils in the blood and spleen. Inflammation affects neutrophil transcriptional states, leading to varying transcriptional activities at different sites.
Neutrophils are implicated in multiple homeostatic and pathological processes, but whether functional diversity requires discrete neutrophil subsets is not known. Here, we apply single-cell RNA sequencing to neutrophils from normal and inflamed mouse tissues. Whereas conventional clustering yields multiple alternative organizational structures, diffusion mapping plus RNA velocity discloses a single developmental spectrum, ordered chronologically. Termed here neutrotime, this spectrum extends from immature pre-neutrophils, largely in bone marrow, to mature neutrophils predominantly in blood and spleen. The sharpest increments in neutrotime occur during the transitions from pre-neutrophils to immature neutrophils and from mature marrow neutrophils to those in blood. Human neutrophils exhibit a similar transcriptomic pattern. Neutrophils migrating into inflamed mouse lung, peritoneum and joint maintain the core mature neutrotime signature together with new transcriptional activity that varies with site and stimulus. Together, these data identify a single developmental spectrum as the dominant organizational theme of neutrophil heterogeneity. Differentiating neutrophil functional states is difficult. Here the authors show, using single cell RNA-sequencing and trajectory analyses, that mouse neutrophils can be presented as a transcriptome continuum rather than discrete subsets, but are affected by inflammation to express distinct transcriptional states.
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