PUBLICATION
The cationic amino acid exporter Slc7a7 is induced and vital in tissue macrophages with sustained efferocytic activity
- Authors
- Demy, D.L., Carrère, M., Noche, R., Tauzin, M., Le Bris, M., Baek, C., Leshchiner, I., Goessling, W., Herbomel, P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201002-159
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Journal of Cell Science 133(20): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Demy, Doris-Lou, Goessling, Wolfram, Herbomel, Philippe, Noche, Ramil, Tauzin, Muriel
- Keywords
- Efferocytosis, Macrophages, Microglia, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Amino Acids*
- Animals
- Macrophages
- Microglia
- Zebrafish*/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- PubMed
- 32973110 Full text @ J. Cell Sci.
Citation
Demy, D.L., Carrère, M., Noche, R., Tauzin, M., Le Bris, M., Baek, C., Leshchiner, I., Goessling, W., Herbomel, P. (2020) The cationic amino acid exporter Slc7a7 is induced and vital in tissue macrophages with sustained efferocytic activity. Journal of Cell Science. 133(20):.
Abstract
Most tissues harbor a substantial population of resident macrophages. Here we elucidate a functional link between the Slc7a7 cationic amino acid transporter and tissue macrophages. We identified a mutant zebrafish devoid of microglia due to a mutation in the slc7a7 gene. We found that in Slc7a7 deficient larvae, macrophages do enter the retina and brain to become microglia, but then die during the developmental wave of neuronal apoptosis, which triggers intense efferocytic work from them. A similar macrophage demise occurs at other tissues and stages where macrophages have to engulf many cell corpses, whether due to developmental or experimentally triggered cell death. We found that Slc7a7 is the main cationic amino acid transporter expressed in macrophages of zebrafish larvae, and that its expression is induced in tissue macrophages within 1-2 hrs upon efferocytosis. Our data indicate that Slc7a7 is vital not only for microglia but also for any steadily efferocytic tissue macrophages, and that slc7a7 gene induction is one of the adaptive responses that allow them to cope with the catabolism of numerous dead cells without compromising their own viability.
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Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping