Journal: Advanced Science
Article Title: A Microbiota‐ and IL‐15‐Dependent Innate‐Like B Cell Progenitor Expressing E4BP4
doi: 10.1002/advs.202512444
Figure Lengend Snippet: NK‐B Cells Represent a Subset of B‐Cell Progenitors. A) Monocle trajectories of wild‐type bone marrow lymphocytes from Tabula Muris database colored by cluster identity. Each dot represents a single cell. Cell orders are inferred from the expression of the most variable genes across all cells. The trajectory direction was determined by biological prior. Green dots indicated stem cells, pink dots indicated NK‐B cells and blue dots indicated B cells. B) Monocle trajectories of wild‐type bone marrow CD3 − NK1.1 + cells colored by cluster identity. Each dot represents a single cell. Cell orders are inferred from the expression of the most variable genes across all cells. The trajectory direction was determined by biological prior. Green dots indicated NK‐B cells and blue dots indicated CD27 − CD11b − immature NK cells. C) Representative percentage and D) flow cytometric plots of NK1.1 expression in pro‐B cells (CD43 + IgM − ), pre‐B cells (CD43 − IgM − ), immature B cells (B220 int IgM + ) and mature B cells (B220 + IgM + ) in the bone marrow of the indicated mice (n = 3). E) Schematic representation. CD3 − NK1.1 + CD19 + NK‐B cells from CD45.1 + mice bone marrow were sorted and transferred into CD45.2 + Rag1 −/− γc −/− mice and analyzed at 2 months. F) NK cells (CD3 − CD19 − NK1.1 + CD122 + ), B cells (CD3 − CD19 + NK1.1 − ) and NK‐B cells (CD3 − CD19 + NK1.1 + ) existence was detected in recipient mice spleen and bone marrow. G) B cells development stage pro‐B cells (CD43 + IgM − ), pre‐B cells (CD43 − IgM − ), immature B cells (B220 int IgM + ) and mature B cells (B220 + IgM + ) existence was detected in recipient mice spleen and bone marrow (n = 3). H) Schemes depict four possible scenarios of NK‐B cell differentiation. Lymphocytes from indicated mice were isolated, stained with antibodies against CD3, CD19 and NK1.1 and analyzed by flow cytometry. CD3 − lymphocytes were gated out for analyzing NK1.1 versus CD19 I). Percentages of NK‐B cells (CD3 − CD19 + NK1.1 + ) J), NK cells (CD3 − CD19 − NK1.1 + ) K) and B cells (CD3 − CD19 + NK1.1 − ) L) were calculated (n = 3). Data represent the mean ± s.d. are representative of at least three independent experiments. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 and **** p < 0.0001. Unpaired Student's t ‐tests (two‐tailed) was used to calculate these values.
Article Snippet: [ ] Mouse CD122 (TM‐beta 1, #BE0298) and IgG2b isotype control (LTF‐2, #BE0090) were purchased from BioXcell.
Techniques: Single Cell, Expressing, Cell Differentiation, Isolation, Staining, Flow Cytometry, Two Tailed Test