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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages 878-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3445
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- US National Institutes of Health [R24AI072073, R01 HL120952, U19AI095219, AI095219, T32 AI007306]
- Steven and Judy Kaye Young Innovators Award
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Mast cells are evolutionarily ancient sentinel cells. Like basophils, mast cells express the high-affinity receptor for immunoglobulin E (IgE) and have been linked to host defense and diverse immune-system-mediated diseases. To better characterize the function of these cells, we assessed the transcriptional profiles of mast cells isolated from peripheral connective tissues and basophils isolated from spleen and blood. We found that mast cells were transcriptionally distinct, clustering independently from all other profiled cells, and that mast cells demonstrated considerably greater heterogeneity across tissues than previously appreciated. We observed minimal homology between mast cells and basophils, which shared more overlap with other circulating granulocytes than with mast cells. The derivation of mast-cell and basophil transcriptional signatures underscores their differential capacities to detect environmental signals and influence the inflammatory milieu.
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