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Single-cell profiling identifies myeloid cell subsets with distinct fates during neuroinflammation

• Marta Joana Costa Jordão
• Roman Sankowski
• Stefanie M. Brendecke
• Sagar
• Giuseppe Locatelli
• Yi-Heng Tai
• Tuan Leng Tay
• Eva Schramm
• Stephan Armbruster
• Nora Hagemeyer
• Olaf Groß
• Dominic Mai
• Özgün Çiçek
• Thorsten Falk
• Martin Kerschensteiner
• Dominic Grün
• Marco Prinz

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| DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7554

The innate immune cell compartment is highly diverse in the healthy central nervous system (CNS), including parenchymal and non-parenchymal macrophages. However, this complexity is increased in inflammatory settings by the recruitment of circulating myeloid cells. It is unclear which disease-specific myeloid subsets exist and what their transcriptional profiles and dynamics during CNS pathology are. Combining deep single-cell transcriptome analysis, fate mapping, in vivo imaging, clonal analysis, and transgenic mouse lines, we comprehensively characterized unappreciated myeloid subsets in several CNS compartments during neuroinflammation. During inflammation, CNS macrophage subsets undergo self-renewal, and random proliferation shifts toward clonal expansion. Last, functional studies demonstrated that endogenous CNS tissue macrophages are redundant for antigen presentation. Our results highlight myeloid cell diversity and provide insights into the brain’s innate immune system.