Acute IL-6 exposure triggers canonical IL6Ra signaling in hiPSC microglia, but not neural progenitor cells

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BACKGROUND: Prenatal exposure to elevated interleukin (IL)-6 levels is associated with increased risk for psychiatric disorders with a putative neurodevelopmental origin, such as schizophrenia (SZ), autism spectrum condition (ASC) and bipolar disorder (BD). Although rodent models provide causal evidence for this association, we lack a detailed understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms in human model systems. To close this gap, we characterized the response of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC-)derived microglia-like cells (MGL) and neural progenitor cells (NPCs) to IL-6 in monoculture.

RESULTS: We observed that human forebrain NPCs did not respond to acute IL-6 exposure in monoculture at both protein and transcript levels due to the absence of IL6R expression and soluble (s)IL6Ra secretion. By contrast, acute IL-6 exposure resulted in STAT3 phosphorylation and increased IL6, JMJD3 and IL10 expression in MGL, confirming activation of canonical IL6Ra signaling. Bulk RNAseq identified 156 up-regulated genes (FDR < 0.05) in MGL following acute IL-6 exposure, including IRF8, REL, HSPA1A/B and OXTR, which significantly overlapped with an up-regulated gene set from human post-mortem brain tissue from individuals with schizophrenia. Acute IL-6 stimulation significantly increased MGL motility, consistent with gene ontology pathways highlighted from the RNAseq data and replicating rodent model indications that IRF8 regulates microglial motility. Finally, IL-6 induces MGLs to secrete CCL1, CXCL1, MIP-1α/β, IL-8, IL-13, IL-16, IL-18, MIF and Serpin-E1 after 3 h and 24 h.

CONCLUSION: Our data provide evidence for cell specific effects of acute IL-6 exposure in a human model system, ultimately suggesting that microglia-NPC co-culture models are required to study how IL-6 influences human cortical neural progenitor cell development in vitro.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:110

Enthalten in:

Brain, behavior, and immunity - 110(2023) vom: 23. Mai, Seite 43-59

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Couch, Amalie C M [VerfasserIn]
Solomon, Shiden [VerfasserIn]
Duarte, Rodrigo R R [VerfasserIn]
Marrocu, Alessia [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yiqing [VerfasserIn]
Sichlinger, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Matuleviciute, Rugile [VerfasserIn]
Polit, Lucia Dutan [VerfasserIn]
Hanger, Bjørn [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Amelia [VerfasserIn]
Kordasti, Shahram [VerfasserIn]
Srivastava, Deepak P [VerfasserIn]
Vernon, Anthony C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Human induced-pluripotent stem cells
IL-6
Interferon Regulatory Factors
Interleukin-6
Journal Article
Microglia
Neural progenitor cells
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Receptors, Interleukin-6
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.04.2023

Date Revised 13.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bbi.2023.02.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352904356