A dynamic atlas of immunocyte migration from the gut

Authors: Silvia Galván-Peña, Yangyang Zhu, Bola S. Hanna, Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoist

Published: 2024-01-05

DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adi0672

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Abstract

Dysbiosis in the gut microbiota affects several systemic diseases, possibly by driving the migration of perturbed intestinal immunocytes to extraintestinal tissues. Combining Kaede photoconvertible mice and single-cell genomics, we generated a detailed map of migratory trajectories from the colon, at baseline, and in several models of intestinal and extraintestinal inflammation. All lineages emigrated from the colon in an S1P-dependent manner. B lymphocytes represented the largest contingent, with the unexpected circulation of nonexperienced follicular B cells, which carried a gut-imprinted transcriptomic signature. T cell emigration included distinct groups of RORγ