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Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells that constantly patrol or marginate inside vascular beds to support immune homeostasis. The extent to which neutrophils undergo reprogramming in response to the changes in vascular architecture and the resultant biological implications of such adaptations remain unclear. Here, we performed intravital imaging and transcriptional profiling to investigate neutrophil behavior across different tissues. Our findings revealed that neutrophils had significant deformability and spontaneous calcium signaling while navigating through the narrow pulmonary vessels. Pulmonary neutrophils exhibited unique transcriptional profiles and were specialized for proangiogenic functions. We found that the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo-type mechanosensitive ion channel component 1 (PIEZO1) was essential for neutrophil reprogramming. Deletion of Piezo1 in neutrophils ablated the lung-specific proangiogenic transcriptional signature and impaired capillary angiogenesis in both physiological and pathological conditions. Collectively, these data show that mechanical adaptation of neutrophils within the pulmonary vasculature drives their reprogramming in the lungs and promotes pulmonary vascular homeostasis.
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