Abstract
Mononuclear phagocytes (MP) consist of macrophages, dendritic cells (DCs), and monocytes. In all organs, including the lung, there are multiple subtypes within these categories. The existence of all these cell types suggest that there is a clear division of labor and delicate balance between the MPs under steady state and inflammatory conditions. Although great strides have been made to understand MPs in the mouse lung, and human blood, little is known about the MPs that exist in the human lung and lung-draining lymph nodes (LNs), and even less is known about their functional roles, studies of which will require a large number of sorted cells. We have comprehensively examined cell surface markers previously used in a variety of organs to identify human pulmonary MPs. In the lung, we consistently identify five extravascular pulmonary MPs and three LN MPs. These MPs were present in over 100 lungs regardless of age or gender. Notably, the human blood CD141+ DCs, as described in the literature, were not observed in non-diseased lungs or their draining LNs. In the lung and draining LNs, expression of CD141 was only observed on HLADR+ CD11c+ CD14+ extravascular monocytes (often confused in the LN as resident DCs based on the level of HLADR expression and mouse LN data). In the human lung and LNs there are at least two DC subtypes expressing HLADR, DEC205 and CD1c, along with circulating monocytes that behave as either antigen-presenting cells or macrophages. Furthermore, we demonstrate how to distinguish between alveolar macrophages and interstitial macrophage subtypes. It still remains unclear how the human pulmonary MPs identified here align with mouse MPs. Clearly, we are now past the stage of cell surface marker characterization, and future studies will need to move toward understanding what these cell types are and how they function. Our hope is that the strategy described here can help the pulmonary community take this next step.
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The authors would like to thank Drs. William Janssen and Robert Manson for collaborating and assisting in the acquisition of non-diseased human lungs from any of the following three sources: National Disease Research Interchange (Philadelphia, PA), the International Institute for the Advancement of Medicine (Edison, NJ), and University of Colorado Donor Alliance. This human subject research falls under federal exemption # 4. Grant support: C.V.J. NIH R01-HL115334 and R01-HL135001.
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Gibbings, S.L., Jakubzick, C.V. (2018). A Consistent Method to Identify and Isolate Mononuclear Phagocytes from Human Lung and Lymph Nodes. In: Reinhardt, R. (eds) Type 2 Immunity. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1799. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7896-0_28
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