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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 408, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2021.112837
Keywords
Myelodysplastic syndrome; Macrophages; Characteristics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [82000160]
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This study investigated the characteristics and phenotypic evolution of macrophages from patients with MDS, revealing that MDS macrophages exhibit more M2-related characteristics and that ferric chloride can polarize them to display more M1-related characteristics, which can be partially reversed by iron chelation with DFO.
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a heterogeneous group of clonal hematopoietic neoplasms. The progression of malignancy is closely associated with immune regulation. Macrophages are indispensable tissue components and have been proposed to play a role in the pathophysiology of hematopoietic malignancies. However, the specific role of macrophages in the development of MDS remains unclear. Here, we investigated the characteristics and phenotypic evolution of macrophages from patients with MDS. Macrophages from patients with MDS expressed CD68, CD86 and CD163. Furthermore, MDS macrophages exhibited more M2-related characteristics. Moreover, a number of phenotype-associated genes in MDS macrophages exhibited diverse responses to iron overload or iron chelation upon stimulation by ferric chloride or deferoxamine (DFO, an iron chelator). Ferric chloride polarized MDS macrophages to exhibit more M1-related characteristics, a phenomenon that could be partially reversed by DFO. Therefore, this study reveals the characteristics and phenotypic evolution of MDS macrophages and broadens the knowledge of macrophage plasticity in hematopoietic malignancies.
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