GSE183495
COMMD10-deficiency promotes 'neutrophil like' differentiation fate of bone marrow Ly6Chi monocytes
Monocytes are circulating myeloid immune precursor cells that are generated in the bone marrow (BM). Upon their release into the circulation, monocytes are recruited to inflammatory sites, where they differentiate into monocyte-derived effector cells. In absence of overt inflammation, monocytes also extravasate into selected tissues, where they complement tissue-resident macrophage compartments. Recent studies have uncovered binary developmental trajectories of monocytes in the BM with Neutrophil-like (NeuMo) and dendritic cell (DC)-like (DCMo) monocytes differentiating downstream of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (GMP) and macrophage-dendritic cell progenitors (MDP), respectively (Weinreb et al., 2020; Yanez et al., 2017). Yet, the molecular cues that dictate BM monocyte differentiation remain incompletely understood. The COMMD (copper metabolism MURR1 domain) family includes 10 evolutionarily conserved proteins. Functions of COMMD proteins are still being defined, but they seem to play non-redundant roles in regulating transcription and protein trafficking. Utilizing conditional COMMD10 knockout mice we uncovered a role for COMMD10 in limiting inflammasome activation in Ly6Chi monocytes during experimental sepsis and colitis (Mouhadeb et al., 2018), and in supporting phagolysosomal biogenesis and maturation in KCs and BM-derived macrophages infected with Staphylococcus aureus (Ben Shlomo et al., 2019). Hence, these studies mark COMMD10 as a candidate mediator of monocyte and macrophage fate and immune responses. Here we studied the effect of COMMD10-deficiency on Ly6Chi monocyte differentiation. We show that COMMD10-deficiency in steady state Ly6Chi monocytes promotes a differentiation bias towards NeuMo fate. Overall design: Here, we have performed Bulk RNAseq analysis of Ly6Chi monocytes sorted from steady state BM, comparing between COMMD10-deficient and sufficient Ly6Chi monocytes. Ly6Chi monocytes were sorted from BM (femur and tibia) of LysMDCommd10 and weight matched littermate Commd10fl/fl controls.