Journal: The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Article Title: Neutrophil-microglia interaction drives motor dysfunction in a neuromyelitis optica model induced by subarachnoid AQP4-IgG
doi: 10.1172/JCI199706
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A and B ) Gray matter of AQP4-IgG recipient mice, C5a immunoreactivity was not seen in GFAP + astrocytes ( A ) and rarely seen in IBA1 + microglia/macrophages ( B ). ( C ) Triple immunostaining of lumbar cord of AQP4-IgG recipient mice revealed C5a in neutrophils (MPO + , left) and monocytes (CCR2-GFP + , enhanced by anti-GFP-IgG, right). ( D ) The percentage of spinal cord cells expressing C5a in AQP4-IgG-infused mice ( n = 4 mice per group). ( E ) Colocalization analysis of C5a and MPO signals in C using Zen software. ( F and G ) Confocal images of neutrophil (Ly6G, red) containing C5a (green in F ), and C5 (green in G ) after TNF-α incubation in vitro. Granule protein, MPO + , magenta; nuclear segmentation, DAPI + , blue. BF, bright-field. ( H ) Lumbar cords from IgG-infused mice were dissociated enzymatically and subjected to high parametric flow cytometric analysis. ( I ) t-SNE maps identifying CD11b + , Ly6G + , Cx3cr1 + , and C5aR1 + cells and their expression levels among CD45 + immune cells. ( J ) Public database ( Brain RNA-Seq ) documents that C5ar1 mRNA in normal mouse brain is predominantly expressed in microglia/macrophages. ( K ) Flow cytometric plot shows that neutrophils infiltrate the lumbar cord in WT mice and in C5ar1- deficient mice at day 3. ( L ) Quantification of the percentage of neutrophils (CD45 + CD11b + Ly6G + Ly6C – cells among CD45 + CD11b + cells) in K ( n = 4 mice per group). ( M ) Motor function, assessed by rotarod performance (latency to fall), in WT and C5ar1 –/– mice infused with AQP4-IgG or (only C5ar1 –/– mice) normal mouse IgG (0.1 μg/μL, n = 6 mice per group). ( N ) Motor function of mice assessed as rotarod fall latency; treatment: F (1, 6) = 9.961, P = 0.0197; n = 6–7 mice per group. Statistics: D used Tukey’s post hoc multiple comparisons test in (1-way ANOVA); t test in J ; 2-way repeated measures ANOVA with Holm-Šídák post hoc test in M and N .
Article Snippet: The following antibodies identified mature neutrophils (Gr1 hi CD11b + , Gr hi MPO + ) , immature myeloid cells (Gr1 int CD11b + ) , and immature neutrophils or granulocytic precursors (Gr1 int MPO + ) ( , ) in peripheral blood using spectral flow cytometry (Cytek Aurora, Cytek Biosciences): CD45-violetFluor 450 (Tonbo, 75-0451-U100, clone 30-F11, 1:1,000), CD45-PE-CF594 (BD Biosciences, 562420, clone 30-F11, 1:1,000), CD11b-PE-Cy5 (Tonbo, 55-0112-U100, clone M1/70, 1:1,000), Ly6G-APC-Cy7 (BioLegend, 127623, clone 1A8, 1:200), Ly6C-PerCP (BioLegend, 128028, clone HK1.4, 1:100), and Gr1-PE (BioLegend, 108408, clone RB6-8C5, 1:200).
Techniques: Triple Immunostaining, Expressing, Software, Incubation, In Vitro, RNA Sequencing