Tissue niche occupancy determines the contribution of fetal- versus bone-marrow-derived macrophages to IgG effector functions

Wöhner M, Brechtelsbauer S, Friedrich N, Vorsatz C, Bulang J, Liang C, Schorr L, Beschin A, Guilliams M, Ravetch J, Nimmerjahn F, Biburger M (2024)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Book Volume: 43

Article Number: 113757

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113757

Abstract

Understanding the mechanisms underlying cytotoxic immunoglobulin G (IgG) activity is critical for improving therapeutic antibody activity and inhibiting autoantibody-mediated tissue pathology. While prior research highlights the important role of the mononuclear phagocytic system for removing opsonized target cells, it remains unclear which monocyte or macrophage subsets stemming from fetal or post-natal bone-marrow (BM)-associated definitive hematopoiesis are involved in target cell depletion. By using a titrated irradiation approach as well as Kupffer-cell-specific deletion of activated Fcγ receptor signaling, we establish conditions under which the contribution of BM-derived monocytes versus yolk-sac-derived liver-resident macrophages to cytotoxic IgG activity can be studied. Our results demonstrate that liver-resident macrophages originating from either fetal or adult hematopoiesis play a central role in IgG-mediated depletion of opsonized target cells from the peripheral blood under steady-state conditions, highlighting the impact of the tissue niche and not macrophage origin for cytotoxic antibody activity.

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium (BE) Universiteit Gent (UGent) / Ghent University Belgium (BE) Universitätsklinikum Jena Germany (DE) Rockefeller University United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Wöhner, M., Brechtelsbauer, S., Friedrich, N., Vorsatz, C., Bulang, J., Liang, C.,... Biburger, M. (2024). Tissue niche occupancy determines the contribution of fetal- versus bone-marrow-derived macrophages to IgG effector functions. Cell Reports, 43(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113757

MLA:

Wöhner, Miriam, et al. "Tissue niche occupancy determines the contribution of fetal- versus bone-marrow-derived macrophages to IgG effector functions." Cell Reports 43.2 (2024).

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