[PDF][PDF] Adventitial stromal cells define group 2 innate lymphoid cell tissue niches

MW Dahlgren, SW Jones, KM Cautivo, A Dubinin… - immunity, 2019 - cell.com
MW Dahlgren, SW Jones, KM Cautivo, A Dubinin, JF Ortiz-Carpena, S Farhat, SY Kevin…
immunity, 2019cell.com
Type 2 lymphocytes promote both physiologic tissue remodeling and allergic pathology, yet
their physical tissue niches are poorly described. Here, we used quantitative imaging to
define the tissue niches of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), which are critical
instigators of type 2 immunity. We identified a dominant adventitial niche around lung
bronchi and larger vessels in multiple tissues, where ILC2s localized with subsets of
dendritic and regulatory T cells. However, ILC2s were most intimately associated with …
Summary
Type 2 lymphocytes promote both physiologic tissue remodeling and allergic pathology, yet their physical tissue niches are poorly described. Here, we used quantitative imaging to define the tissue niches of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), which are critical instigators of type 2 immunity. We identified a dominant adventitial niche around lung bronchi and larger vessels in multiple tissues, where ILC2s localized with subsets of dendritic and regulatory T cells. However, ILC2s were most intimately associated with adventitial stromal cells (ASCs), a mesenchymal fibroblast-like subset that expresses interleukin-33 (IL-33) and thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP). In vitro, ASCs produced TSLP that supported ILC2 accumulation and activation. ILC2s and IL-13 drove reciprocal ASC expansion and IL-33 expression. During helminth infection, ASC depletion impaired lung ILC2 and Th2 cell accumulation and function, which are in part dependent on ASC-derived IL-33. These data indicate that adventitial niches are conserved sites where ASCs regulate type 2 lymphocyte expansion and function.
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