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. 2023 Feb;78(2):439-453.
doi: 10.1111/all.15486. Epub 2022 Sep 8.

Single-cell profiles reveal distinctive immune response in atopic dermatitis in contrast to psoriasis

Bowen Zhang  1   2 , Lennart M Roesner  3   4 , Stephan Traidl  3   4 , Valerie A C M Koeken  1   2   5 , Cheng-Jian Xu  1   2   5 , Thomas Werfel  3   4 , Yang Li  1   2   4   5
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Single-cell profiles reveal distinctive immune response in atopic dermatitis in contrast to psoriasis

Bowen Zhang et al. Allergy. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

Background: Understanding the complex orchestrated inflammation in atopic dermatitis (AD), one of the most common chronic inflammatory diseases worldwide, is essential for therapeutic approaches. However, a comparative analysis on the single-cell level of the inflammation signatures correlated with the severity is missing so far.

Methods: We applied single-cell RNA and T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing on immune cells enriched from skin biopsies and matched blood samples of AD in comparison with psoriasis (PS) patients.

Results: Clonally propagated skin-derived T cells showed disease-specific TCR motifs shared between patients which was more pronounced in PS compared to AD. The disease-specific T-cell clusters were mostly of a Th2/Th22 sub-population in AD and Th17/Tc17 in PS, and their numbers were associated with severity scores in both diseases. Herein, we provide for the first time a list that associates cell type-specific gene expression with the severity of the two most common chronic inflammatory skin diseases. Investigating the cell signatures in the patients´ PBMCs and skin stromal cells, a systemic involvement of type-3 inflammation was clearly detectable in PS circulating cells, while in AD inflammatory signatures were most pronounced in fibroblasts, pericytes, and keratinocytes. Compositional and functional analyses of myeloid cells revealed the activation of antiviral responses in macrophages in association with disease severity in both diseases.

Conclusion: Different disease-driving cell types and subtypes which contribute to the hallmarks of type-2 and type-3 inflammatory signatures and are associated with disease activities could be identified by single-cell RNA-seq and TCR-seq in AD and PS.

Keywords: atopic dermatitis; chronic inflammatory diseases; single-cell immune profiling; type-2 immunity; type-3 immunity.

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