Fletcher, AL;
Malhotra, D;
Acton, SE;
Lukacs-Kornek, V;
Bellemare-Pelletier, A;
Curry, M;
Armant, M;
(2011)
Reproducible isolation of lymph node stromal cells reveals site-dependent differences in fibroblastic reticular cells.
Frontiers in Immunology
, 2
, Article 35. 10.3389/fimmu.2011.00035.
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Abstract
Within lymph nodes, non-hematopoietic stromal cells organize and interact with leukocytes in an immunologically important manner. In addition to organizing T and B cell segregation and expressing lymphocyte survival factors, several recent studies have shown that lymph node stromal cells shape the naïve T cell repertoire, expressing self-antigens which delete self-reactive T cells in a unique and non-redundant fashion. A fundamental role in peripheral tolerance, in addition to an otherwise extensive functional portfolio, necessitates closer study of lymph node stromal cell subsets using modern immunological techniques; however this has not routinely been possible in the field, due to difficulties reproducibly isolating these rare subsets. Techniques were therefore developed for successful ex vivo and in vitro manipulation and characterization of lymph node stroma. Here we discuss and validate these techniques in mice and humans, and apply them to address several unanswered questions regarding lymph node composition. We explored the steady-state stromal composition of lymph nodes isolated from mice and humans, and found that marginal reticular cells and lymphatic endothelial cells required lymphocytes for their normal maturation in mice. We also report alterations in the proportion and number of fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) between skin-draining and mesenteric lymph nodes. Similarly, transcriptional profiling of FRCs revealed changes in cytokine production from these sites. Together, these methods permit highly reproducible stromal cell isolation, sorting, and culture.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reproducible isolation of lymph node stromal cells reveals site-dependent differences in fibroblastic reticular cells |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fimmu.2011.00035 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2011.00035 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2011 Fletcher, Malhotra, Acton, Lukacs-Kornek, Bellemare-Pelletier, Curry, Armant and Turley. This is an open-access article subject to a non-exclusive license (CC-BY, version 4.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and other Frontiers conditions are complied with. |
| Keywords: | Stromal cells, lymph node stromal cells, fibroblastic reticular cells, endothelial cells, tolerance, human lymph nodes, mouse lymph nodes |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Lab for Molecular Cell Bio MRC-UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1387305 |
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