Project description:Foxp3+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) regulate most types of immune response as well as several processes important for tissue homeostasis – for example, metabolism and repair. Dedicated Treg compartments – with distinct transcriptomes, T-cell-receptor repertoires, and growth/survival factor dependencies – have been identified in several nonlymphoid tissues. These Tregs are specifically adapted to function and operate in their home tissue – when, where and how do they take on their specialized characteristics? We recently reported that a splenic Treg population expressing low levels of the transcription factor, PPARg, contains precursors of Tregs residing in visceral adipose tissue. This finding made sense given that PPARg, the “master-regulator” of adipocyte differentiation, is required for the accumulation and function of Tregs in visceral adipose tissue but not in lymphoid tissues. Here we use single-cell RNA sequencing, single-cell Tcra and Tcrb sequencing, and adoptive-transfer experiments to show that, unexpectedly, the splenic PPARglo Treg population is transcriptionally heterogeneous and engenders Tregs in multiple nonlymphoid tissues beyond visceral adipose tissue, e.g. skin and liver. The existence of a general pool of splenic precursors for nonlymphoid-tissue Tregs opens new possibilities for regulating their emergence experimentally or therapeutically.
Project description:Foxp3+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) regulate most types of immune response as well as several processes important for tissue homeostasis – for example, metabolism and repair. Dedicated Treg compartments – with distinct transcriptomes, T-cell-receptor repertoires, and growth/survival factor dependencies – have been identified in several nonlymphoid tissues. These Tregs are specifically adapted to function and operate in their home tissue – when, where and how do they take on their specialized characteristics? We recently reported that a splenic Treg population expressing low levels of the transcription factor, PPARg, contains precursors of Tregs residing in visceral adipose tissue. This finding made sense given that PPARg, the “master-regulator” of adipocyte differentiation, is required for the accumulation and function of Tregs in visceral adipose tissue but not in lymphoid tissues. Here we use single-cell RNA sequencing, single-cell Tcra and Tcrb sequencing, and adoptive-transfer experiments to show that, unexpectedly, the splenic PPARglo Treg population is transcriptionally heterogeneous and engenders Tregs in multiple nonlymphoid tissues beyond visceral adipose tissue, e.g. skin and liver. The existence of a general pool of splenic precursors for nonlymphoid-tissue Tregs opens new possibilities for regulating their emergence experimentally or therapeutically.
Project description:Foxp3+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) regulate most types of immune response as well as several processes important for tissue homeostasis – for example, metabolism and repair. Dedicated Treg compartments – with distinct transcriptomes, T-cell-receptor repertoires, and growth/survival factor dependencies – have been identified in several nonlymphoid tissues. These Tregs are specifically adapted to function and operate in their home tissue – when, where and how do they take on their specialized characteristics? We recently reported that a splenic Treg population expressing low levels of the transcription factor, PPARg, contains precursors of Tregs residing in visceral adipose tissue. This finding made sense given that PPARg, the “master-regulator” of adipocyte differentiation, is required for the accumulation and function of Tregs in visceral adipose tissue but not in lymphoid tissues. Here we use single-cell RNA sequencing, single-cell Tcra and Tcrb sequencing, and adoptive-transfer experiments to show that, unexpectedly, the splenic PPARglo Treg population is transcriptionally heterogeneous and engenders Tregs in multiple nonlymphoid tissues beyond visceral adipose tissue, e.g. skin and liver. The existence of a general pool of splenic precursors for nonlymphoid-tissue Tregs opens new possibilities for regulating their emergence experimentally or therapeutically.
Project description:Foxp3+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) regulate most types of immune response as well as several processes important for tissue homeostasis, for example, metabolism and repair. Dedicated Treg compartments-with distinct transcriptomes, T cell receptor repertoires, and growth/survival factor dependencies-have been identified in several nonlymphoid tissues. These Tregs are specifically adapted to function and operate in their home tissue-When, where, and how do they take on their specialized characteristics? We recently reported that a splenic Treg population expressing low levels of the transcription factor PPARγ (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma) contains precursors of Tregs residing in visceral adipose tissue. This finding made sense given that PPARγ, the "master regulator" of adipocyte differentiation, is required for the accumulation and function of Tregs in visceral adipose tissue but not in lymphoid tissues. Here we use single-cell RNA sequencing, single-cell Tcra and Tcrb sequencing, and adoptive-transfer experiments to show that, unexpectedly, the splenic PPARγlo Treg population is transcriptionally heterogeneous and engenders Tregs in multiple nonlymphoid tissues beyond visceral adipose tissue, such as skin and liver. The existence of a general pool of splenic precursors for nonlymphoid-tissue Tregs opens possibilities for regulating their emergence experimentally or therapeutically.
Project description:We reported transcriptional characterization of Treg and Tconv cells from thymic, splenic, and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) of vTreg53 TCR transgenic mice and control littermates. We examined the effect of Foxp3 on splenic and VAT CD4+ T cell transcriptome. We profiled gene expression in a novel PPARg+ splenic Treg population. We uncovered that the characteristic phenotype of VAT Treg cells was acquired in two stages.
Project description:RNA microarray profiling analysis was performed on different ex-vivo human splenic B cell subsets (M-^SNaM-oveM-^T, marginal zone precursors or M-^SMZPM-^T, marginal zone B cells orM-^T MZBM-^T, M-^SMTG+CD45+M-^T cells) and on M-^Sp27M-^T cells, corresponding to the fraction of MZP cells that differentiated into CD27-expressing cells after culture on OP9-hDLL1 cells cultured with OP9-hDLL1 cells that differentiated into CD27-expressing cells