Macrophages Are Polarized toward an Inflammatory Phenotype by their Aged Microenvironment in the Human Skin

Aging of the skin is accompanied by cellular as well as tissue environmental changes, ultimately reducing the ability of the tissue to regenerate and adequately respond to external stressors. Macrophages are important gatekeepers of tissue homeostasis, and it has been reported that their number and...

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Published in:Journal of investigative dermatology Vol. 142; no. 12; p. 3136
Main Authors: Gather, Leonie, Nath, Neetika, Falckenhayn, Cassandra, Oterino-Sogo, Sergio, Bosch, Thomas, Wenck, Horst, Winnefeld, Marc, Grönniger, Elke, Simm, Stefan, Siracusa, Annette
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 01.12.2022
Subjects:
Cells, Cultured
Humans
Macrophages - metabolism
Monocytes - metabolism
Phenotype
Skin
ISSN:1523-1747, 1523-1747
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Summary:Aging of the skin is accompanied by cellular as well as tissue environmental changes, ultimately reducing the ability of the tissue to regenerate and adequately respond to external stressors. Macrophages are important gatekeepers of tissue homeostasis, and it has been reported that their number and phenotype change during aging in a site-specific manner. How aging affects human skin macrophages and what implications this has for the aging process in the tissue are still not fully understood. Using single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis, we show that there is at least a 50% increase of macrophages in human aged skin, which appear to have developed from monocytes and exhibit more proinflammatory M1-like characteristics. In contrast, the cell-intrinsic ability of aged monocytes to differentiate into M1 macrophages was reduced. Using coculture experiments with aged dermal fibroblasts, we show that it is the aged microenvironment that drives a more proinflammatory phenotype of macrophages in the skin. This proinflammatory M1-like phenotype in turn negatively influenced the expression of extracellular matrix proteins by fibroblasts, emphasizing the impact of the aged macrophages on the skin phenotype.
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ISSN:1523-1747
1523-1747
DOI:10.1016/j.jid.2022.06.023