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Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This study was supported by grants PI14/00302 and PI19/00593 from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain) with joint financing by FEDER funds from the European Union.

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Human Microglia-Like Cells Differentiated from Monocytes with GM-CSF and IL-34 Show Phagocytosis of α-Synuclein Aggregates and C/EBPβ-Dependent Proinflammatory Activation

Publicat a:Molecular Neurobiology. - 2024-06-20 (), DOI: 10.1007/s12035-024-04289-z

Autors: Llaves-López A; Micoli E; Belmonte-Mateos C; Aguilar G; Alba C; Marsal A; Pulido-Salgado M; Rabaneda-Lombarte N; Solà C; Serratosa J; Vidal-Taboada JM; Saura J

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Microglia, the main resident immune cells in the central nervous system, are implicated in the pathogenesis of various neurological disorders. Much of our knowledge on microglial biology was obtained using rodent microglial cultures. To understand the role of microglia in human disease, reliable in vitro models of human microglia are necessary. Monocyte-derived microglia-like cells (MDMi) are a promising approach. This study aimed to characterize MDMi cells generated from adult human monocytes using granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-34. To this end, 49 independent cultures of MDMI were prepared, and various methodological and functional studies were performed. We show that with this protocol, adult human monocytes develop into microglia-like cells, a coating is unnecessary, and high cell density seeding is preferable. When compared to monocytes, MDMi upregulate the expression of many, but not all, microglial markers, indicating that, although these cells display a microglia-like phenotype, they cannot be considered bona fide human microglia. At the functional level, MDMi phagocytose alpha-synuclein aggregates and responds to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) by nuclear translocation of the transcription factor nuclear factor-kappaB (NFkappaB) and the upregulation of proinflammatory genes. Finally, a long-lasting silencing of the transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer protein beta (C/EBP beta) was achieved by small interfering RNA, resulting in the subsequent downregulation of proinflammatory genes. This supports the hypothesis that C/EBP beta plays a key role in proinflammatory gene program activation in human microglia. Altogether, this study sheds new light on the properties of MDMi cells and supports these cells as a promising in vitro model for studying adult human microglia-like cells.

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