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. 2021 Sep 24;61(3):913–925. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab721

Table 1.

Synovial myeloid cell heterogeneity (based on [17])

Markers defining this population Associated with inflammation/ remission Possible function, associated expression profile Mouse equivalent (Culemann et al. 2019)
MerTKpos TREM2pos TREM2low Increased in early undifferentiated arthrits May represent early activated TREM2high
TREM2high Remission Restraining inflammation; expression associated with complement and defensin pathways, Treg differentiation, restriction of effector T-cell function, scavenger receptor etc. lining Trem2pos Cx3cr1pos
FOLR2pos ID2pos Similar abundance in all conditions May represent in situ precursors of resident macrophages
LYVE1pos Remission Immuno-regulation; gene expression associated with collagen turnover, antiprotease enzymes, coagulation factors and regulators of vascular endothelial growth factor RELMα+ sublining mph
ICAM1pos Similar abundance in all conditions May represent first-line defence against pathogens; high expression of proinflammatory cytokine genes
MerTKneg HLApos
  • ISG15pos

  • CLEC10Alow

Interferon signalling
  • CLEC10Ahigh

  • HLAhigh

Similar abundance in all conditions May represent synovial tissue-resident antigen-presenting cells
CD48pos S100A12pos Inflammation Proinflammatory phenotype; expression of alarmin S100A9 correlated with disease severity
  • SPP1pos

  • CD9pos

Inflammation Proinflammatory phenotype; osteopontin expression correlated with disease severity