Neutrophil swarming is an essential process of the neutrophil response to many pathological conditions. Resultant neutrophil accumulations are hallmarks of acute tissue inflammation and infection, but little is known about their dynamic regulation. Technical limitations to spatiotemporally resolve individual cells in dense neutrophil clusters and manipulate these clusters have hampered recent progress. We here adapted an swarming-on-a-chip platform for the use with confocal laser-scanning microscopy to unravel the complexity of single-cell responses during neutrophil crowding. Confocal sectioning allowed the live visualization of subcellular components, including mitochondria, cell membranes, cortical actin, and phagocytic cups, inside neutrophil clusters. Based on this experimental setup, we identify that chemical inhibition of the Arp2/3 complex causes cell death in crowding neutrophils. By visualizing spatiotemporal patterns of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in developing neutrophil swarms, we further demonstrate a regulatory role of the metabolic pentose phosphate pathway for ROS production and neutrophil cluster growth.

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