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Langerhans cells regulate immunity in adulthood by regulating postnatal dermal lymphatic development

Sim, J. H.; Bell, R.; Feng, Z.; Chyou, S.; Shipman, W.; Kataru, R.; Ivashkiv, L.; Mehrara, B.; Lu, T.

2024-07-16 immunology
10.1101/2024.07.12.603312 bioRxiv
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The communication between skin and draining lymph nodes is crucial for well-regulated immune responses to skin insults. The skin sends antigen and other signals via lymphatic vessels to regulate lymph node activity, and regulating dermal lymphatic function is another means to control immunity. Here, we show that Langerhans cells (LCs), epidermis-derived antigen-presenting cells, mediate dermal lymphatic expansion and phenotype acquisition postnatally, a function is independent of LC entry into lymphatic vessels. This postnatal LC-lymphatic axis serves in part to control inflammatory systemic T cell responses in adulthood. Our data provide a tissue-based mechanism by which LCs regulate T cells remotely across time and space and raise the possibility that immune diseases in adulthood could reflect compromise of the LC-lymphatic axis in childhood.

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