Non-lesional and Lesional Lupus Skin Share Inflammatory Phenotypes that Drive Activation of CD16+ Dendritic Cells
Billi, A. C.; Ma, F.; Plazyo, O.; Gharaee-Kermani, M.; Wasikowski, R.; Hile, G. A.; Xing, X.; Yee, C. M.; Rizvi, S. M.; Maz, M. P.; Wen, F.; Tsoi, L. C.; Pellegrini, M.; Modlin, R. L.; Gudjonsson, J. E.; Kahlenberg, J. M.
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Cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) is a disfiguring and poorly understood condition frequently associated with systemic lupus. Studies to date suggest that non-lesional keratinocytes play a role in disease predisposition, but this has not been investigated in a comprehensive manner or in the context of other cell populations. To investigate CLE immunopathogenesis, normal-appearing skin, lesional skin, and circulating immune cells from lupus patients were analyzed via integrated single-cell RNA-sequencing and spatial-seq. We demonstrate that normal-appearing skin of lupus patients represents a type I interferon-rich, prelesional environment that skews gene transcription in all major skin cell types and dramatically distorts cell-cell communication. Further, we show that lupus-enriched CD16+ dendritic cells undergo robust interferon education in the skin, thereby gaining pro-inflammatory phenotypes. Together, our data provide a comprehensive characterization of lesional and non-lesional skin in lupus and identify a role for skin education of CD16+ dendritic cells in CLE pathogenesis.
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