Functional Contribution and Targeted Migration of Group-2 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Inflammatory Lung Diseases : Being at the Right Place at the Right Time

Copyright © 2021 Wirtz, Schulz-Kuhnt, Neurath and Atreya..

During the last decade, group-2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) have been discovered and successfully established as crucial mediators of lung allergy, airway inflammation and fibrosis, thus affecting the pathogenesis and clinical course of many respiratory diseases, like for instance asthma, cystic fibrosis and chronic rhinosinusitis. As an important regulatory component in this context, the local pulmonary milieu at inflammatory tissue sites does not only determine the activation status of lung-infiltrating ILC2s, but also influences their motility and migratory behavior. In general, many data collected in recent murine and human studies argued against the former concept of a very strict tissue residency of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) and instead pointed to a context-dependent homing capacity of peripheral blood ILC precursors and the inflammation-dependent capacity of specific ILC subsets for interorgan trafficking. In this review article, we provide a comprehensive overview of the so far described molecular mechanisms underlying the pulmonary migration of ILC2s and thereby the numeric regulation of local ILC2 pools at inflamed or fibrotic pulmonary tissue sites and discuss their potential to serve as innovative therapeutic targets in the treatment of inflammatory lung diseases.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 12(2021) vom: 01., Seite 688879

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wirtz, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Schulz-Kuhnt, Anja [VerfasserIn]
Neurath, Markus F [VerfasserIn]
Atreya, Imke [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Airway inflammation
ILC2
Immune cell trafficking
Inflammation Mediators
Innate lymphoid cells
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Tissue migration

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Date Completed 27.10.2021

Date Revised 07.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2021.688879

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327250046