Notch and TLR signaling coordinate monocyte cell fate and inflammation

  1. Jaba Gamrekelashvili  Is a corresponding author
  2. Tamar Kapanadze
  3. Stefan Sablotny
  4. Corina Ratiu
  5. Khaled Dastagir
  6. Matthias Lochner
  7. Susanne Karbach
  8. Philip Wenzel
  9. Andre Sitnow
  10. Susanne Fleig
  11. Tim Sparwasser
  12. Ulrich Kalinke
  13. Bernhard Holzmann
  14. Hermann Haller
  15. Florian P Limbourg  Is a corresponding author
  1. Vascular Medicine Research, Hannover Medical School, Germany
  2. Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Germany
  3. Institut für Kardiovaskuläre Physiologie, Fachbereich Medizin der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  4. Department of Plastic, Aesthetic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany
  5. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Germany
  6. Mucosal Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Germany
  7. Center for Cardiology, Cardiology I, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
  8. Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
  9. German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine Main, Germany
  10. Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany
  11. Institute for Experimental Infection Research, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, a joint venture between the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig and the Hannover Medical School, Germany
  12. Cluster of Excellence-Resolving Infection Susceptibility (RESIST), Hanover Medical School, Germany
  13. Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Germany
5 figures and 7 additional files

Figures

Figure 1 with 1 supplement
Inflammatory conditions enhance monocyte conversion in vitro.

(A–F) Monocyte conversion in the presence of DLL1 and TLR agonists in vitro: (A) Representative flow cytometry plot, (B) relative frequency of Ly6Clo monocyte-like cells in live CD11b+GFP+ cells …

Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Strategy of monocyte isolation from mouse bone marrow.

(A) Sorting strategy of BM Ly6Chi monocytes from CX3CR1-GFP expressing (GFP+) wt or N2ΔMy mice used for in vitro culture experiments in Figure 1, or for adoptive transfer in Figure 2 and Figure 5. (B

Figure 2 with 1 supplement
Inflammatory conditions enhance monocyte conversion in vivo.

(A–E) Adoptive transfer and flow cytometry analysis of BM CD45.2+ Ly6Chi monocytes in control or R848 injected CD45.1+ congenic recipients: (A) Experimental setup is depicted; (B) Flow cytometry …

Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Inflammatory conditions enhance monocyte conversion in vivo.

(A, B) Full gating path of adoptively transferred donor CD45.2+ monocytes recovered from CD45.1+ recipients corresponding to Figure 2B and D respectively.

Figure 3 with 3 supplements
Acute inflammation triggers altered myeloid cell response in N2ΔMy mice.

(A) Experimental set-up for IMQ treatment and analysis of mice. (B, C) Gating strategy for t-SNE analysis and definition of cell subsets based on expression of surface markers are shown. t-SNE was …

Figure 3—figure supplement 1
IMQ treatment induces systemic inflammation in mice.

(A) Body weight (left) and ear thickness (right) of IMQ-treated wt or N2ΔMy mice (data are from three experiments, n = 11/13). (B) Spleen weight and cell number of IMQ-treated wt or N2ΔMy mice (data …

Figure 3—figure supplement 2
Identification of myeloid cell subsets in IMQ-treated mice.

(A) Gating strategy for definition and quantification of myeloid subsets from live CD45+Lin-CD11b+GFP+ cells by flow cytometry. Defined populations are color-coded and used for subsequent …

Figure 3—figure supplement 3
Flow cytometry analysis of myeloid cells in IMQ-driven inflammation.

(A) Absolute frequency of different myeloid subpopulations in PB. (B) Absolute frequency of different myeloid subpopulations normalized per mg tissue (top) or per spleen (bottom). (C) Relative (top) …

Figure 4 with 1 supplement
Enhanced macrophage gene expression signatures in monocytes and altered inflammatory response in N2ΔMy mice.

(A, B) Hierarchical clustering of 600 ANOVA-selected DEGs (A) and PCA of PB monocyte subsets (B) after IMQ treatment (n = 4) is shown (Variance filtering 0.295, ANOVA followed by the B-H correction …

Figure 4—source data 1

List of 600 DEGs for hierarchical clustering and PCA (Figure 4A and B) from Ly6Chi and Ly6Clo subpopulations isolated from sham-or IMQ(Aldara)-treated wt or N2ΔMy mice.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-fig4-data1-v2.xlsx
Figure 4—source data 2

List of 373 DEGs between Ly6Clo cells isolated from IMQ(Aldara)-treated wt or N2ΔMy mice and used for the analysis in Figure 4C and D, Figure 5A and Supplementary file 25.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-fig4-data2-v2.xlsx
Figure 4—figure supplement 1
Gating strategy for cell sorting, IPA and cytokine and chemokine analysis in IMQ-treated mice.

(A) Sorting strategy of monocyte subsets for RNA-seq analysis. Lin-CD11b+GFP+CD115+Ly6ChiCD43-MHC-II- (Ly6Chi) and Lin-CD11b+GFP+CD115+Ly6Clo/-MHC-II- (Ly6Clo) monocytes were sorted from naive or …

Figure 5 with 2 supplements
Notch2-deficient Ly6Clo cells show enhanced macrophage maturation during acute inflammation.

(A) GSEA based on 373 DEGs between IMQ-treated wt and N2ΔMy Ly6Clo subsets in PB. Red – positive-, and blue - negative enrichment in corresponding color-coded wt or N2ΔMy cells. Size of the circle …

Figure 5—figure supplement 1
Characterization of F4/80hi monocytes in IMQ-treated mice.

(A) Experimental set-up for IMQ treatment, adoptive transfer and analysis of mice is depicted. (B) t-SNE analysis of donor CD45.2+CD11b+GFP+ cells extracted from Spl of IMQ-treated mice. Overlay of …

Figure 5—figure supplement 2
Expression of Notch2 and Notch-regulated gene in monocytes of IMQ-treated mice.

(A, B) Bar graph showing mean + SEM of Notch2 (A) or Hes1 (B) sequence reads from IMQ-treated wt and N2ΔMy PB monocyte subsets. (C) Representative flow cytometry plots showing expression of Notch2 …

Additional files

Supplementary file 1

Surface phenotype signatures for identification of distinct myeloid populations in vivo.

Lin: CD3, CD45R/B220, CD19, NK1.1, Ly6G, Ter119.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-supp1-v2.doc
Supplementary file 2

IPA of top five immunological diseases enriched in Ly6Clo cells from IMQ-treated N2ΔMy mice.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-supp2-v2.doc
Supplementary file 3

Top 20 gene sets involved in GO biological processes enriched in Ly6Clo cells from IMQ-treated N2ΔMy mice.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-supp3-v2.doc
Supplementary file 4

Parameters and the results of GSEA performed on 373 DEGs for Figure 5A.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-supp4-v2.xlsx
Supplementary file 5

List of the genes enriched in Lyve1hiMHC-IIlo MF gene set from Figure 5A.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-supp5-v2.xlsx
Supplementary file 6

List of antibodies and fluorescence dyes for flow cytometry used in the study.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/57007/elife-57007-supp6-v2.doc
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