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ArticlePloS one2021

The IL-10GFP (VeRT-X) mouse strain is not suitable for the detection of IL-10 production by granulocytes during lung inflammation.

Müge Özkan, Yusuf Cem Eskiocak, Gerhard Wingender

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Müge ÖzkanDepartment of Genome Sciences and Molecular Biotechnology, Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, Dokuz Eylul University, Balcova/Izmir, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-3927-1882
Yusuf Cem EskiocakIzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG), Balcova/Izmir, Turkey.
Gerhard WingenderIzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG), Balcova/Izmir, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-7115-298X
Dokuz Eylül University · TR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clear and unequivocal identification of immune effector functions is essential to understand immune responses. The cytokine IL-10 is a critical immune regulator and was shown, for example, to limit pathology during various lung diseases. However, the clear identification of IL-10-producing cells is challenging and, therefore, reporter mouse lines were developed to facilitate their detection. Several such reporter lines utilize GFP, including the IL-10GFP (VeRT-X) reporter strain studied here. In line with previous reports, we found that this IL-10GFP line faithfully reports on the IL-10 production of lymphoid cells. However, we show that the IL-10GFP reporter is not suitable to analyse IL-10 production of myeloid cells during inflammation. During inflammation, the autofluorescence of myeloid cells increased to an extent that entirely masked the IL-10-specific GFP-signal. Our data illustrate a general and important technical caveat using GFP-reporter lines for the analysis of myeloid cells and suggest that previous reports on effector functions of myeloid cells using such GFP-based reporters might require re-evaluation.

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AnimalsFlow CytometryGranulocytesInterleukin-10MiceMice, Inbred C57BLMyeloid CellsPneumoniaInterleukin-10

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PMID33979348
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