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Functional Dissection of Regulatory Myeloid Cells in Microbe-Immune Crosstalk in Skin

Award Number: R01AR080034
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS & MUSCULOSKELETAL & SKIN DISEASES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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PROJECT SUMMARY Establishment and maintenance of local immune homeostasis is essential for the integrity and function of body barrier tissues. This process involves partnership between the tissue and the commensal microbes inhabiting these sites. We have demonstrated that regulatory T cells (Tregs) are key to establishing immune tolerance to skin commensal bacteria, and that type 2 conventional dendritic cells (cDC2s) are a critical, understudied population that mediate the regulatory response to skin commensals. Specifically, our data suggest that cDC2s capture commensal antigens more readily and prime commensal-specific CD4+ T cells more efficiently than other DC subsets. After phagocytosing commensal bacteria, cDC2s display a mature-regulatory (mreg) phenotype and preferentially support commensal-specific Tregs via a mechanism that may involve Myd88 signaling in DCs. The work proposed here will build on our preliminary observations to investigate how commensal bacteria support the mreg phenotype of cDC2s and their ability to promote skin homeostasis through commensal-specific immune tolerance. We will use engineered skin commensal bacteria mutants, gnotobiotic and transgenic mouse models, high dimensional single cell analyses, novel tools to measure cDC2 priming of bacteria-specific CD4+ T cells and unique ex vivo systems to study human skin immune cell function. Combining these will allow us to elucidate how host receptor pathways respond co-operatively to bacterial ligands to promote immune homeostasis and in what manner these responses differ in skin disease, specifically hidradenitis suppurativa. The proposed studies will use innovative approaches to define the role of cDC2s in cutaneous immune regulation and identify the bacterial molecules and host pathways that regulate these processes. The results will enhance our understanding of how bacteria partner to support skin homeostasis, determine how this is altered in disease states, and inform future therapeutic strategies targeting host-commensal interactions.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $663,537 )
2024	2024	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research	000	3	1/24/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$526,519
2024	2024	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94103	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research	002	3	5/29/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$40,951
2024	2024	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research	001	3	1/29/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$96,067
														Subtotal = $663,537

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $654,209 )
2023	2023	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research	001	2	6/1/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$64,044
2023	2023	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research	000	2	2/24/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$590,165
														Subtotal = $654,209

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $598,647 )
2022	2022	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research	000	1	4/7/2022	NEW	$598,647
														Subtotal = $598,647

Grand Total All Awards = $1,916,393

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Functional Dissection of Regulatory Myeloid Cells in Microbe-Immune Crosstalk in Skin

Award Number: R01AR080034

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS & MUSCULOSKELETAL & SKIN DISEASES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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