Phagocytic clearance of dying cells and its implications.
Phagocytic clearance of dying cells and its implications.
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死亡细胞的吞噬清除及其影响。
DOI:
10.1111/imr.13285
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
8.7
通讯作者:
Ravichandran,KodiS
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作者:
Ravichandran,KodiS
It is estimated that an average adult human turns over roughly 330±20 billion cells every day as part of healthy living 1, 2. This translates to 0.4% of our body mass. Such a large number for cell turnover then begs the question–what are these cells and why? The reasons for this are multi-factorial. First, there are cells in the body that have a finite life span, such as neutrophils (~ 1 day) and erythrocytes (~ 120 days), and there are also other cell types such as many hematopoietic cells that have a life span of a few days to few weeks; these need to be removed after their useful life span and replaced by new cells. Second, there are many aspects of development where we generate excess cells, of which only a few are deemed fit to progress to full maturation, and the rest undergo death and need to be removed; examples of this include development of T cells in the thymus, B cells in the bone marrow, and also adult neurogenesis in the brain 1. Third, there are also ‘damaged’cells that emerge daily in the body, such as due to light/UV damage, for example skin and photoreceptors of the eye 3. Thus, all these turnover events result in a large number of cells undergoing death essentially in all organs and tissues, albeit at different magnitude 2. Although there are many different forms of death processes, the cells that are destined die via homeostatic turnover do so primarily via the process of caspase-dependent apoptosis 4.What happens to these dying cells? Despite the billions of dying cells per day, when one looks at tissues, it is hard to recognize dying cells, even in those with high cellular turnover. This is because the recognition and clearance of dying cells is remarkably efficient 5 6. Just like there is a dedicated set of molecules and mechanisms to induce programmed cell death, we also possess a dedicated machinery to recognize and remove these dying cells 7. Such clearance under homeostasis conditions occurs quickly, efficiently, and from an immunological perspective, quietly 8. It is worth noting that just like the apoptotic cell death machinery, the clearance processes are also highly conserved evolutionarily, and studies from the nematode, flies, zebrafish, mice, and humans have established the conserved components of the clearance process 9, 10. This volume of Immunological Reviews focuses on different aspects of the cell clearance process and its implications to homeostasis and disease.