Xu Yingzheng, Hillman Hannah, Chang Michael, Barrow Fanta, Ivanov Stoyan, Revelo Xavier S, Williams Jesse W
Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Commun Biol. 2025 Jun 23;8(1):953. doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-08387-z.
Macrophages are essential immune cells in all tissues and are vital for maintaining tissue homeostasis, immune surveillance, and immune responses. Considerable efforts have identified shared and tissue-specific gene programs for macrophages across organs during homeostasis. This information has dramatically enhanced the understanding of tissue-restricted macrophage programming and function. However, few studies have addressed the overlapping and tissue-specific responses of macrophage subsets following inflammation. One subset of macrophages observed across several studies, lipid-associated macrophages (LAMs), have gained interest due to their unique role in lipid metabolism and potential as a therapeutic target. LAMs are associated with regulating disease outcomes in metabolically related disorders including atherosclerosis, obesity, and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. We utilized single-cell RNA sequencing datasets to profile LAM diversity across multiple tissues and inflammatory conditions in mice and humans, to define a shared LAM transcriptional profile, including Trem2 and Lpl, and sets of tissue-specific gene programs. Importantly, LAM markers were highly conserved with human LAM populations that emerge in inflammation. Overall, this analysis provides a detailed transcriptional landscape of tissue-restricted and shared LAM gene programs, data that may help instruct appropriate molecular targets for broad or tissue-restricted therapeutic interventions to modulate LAM populations in disease.
巨噬细胞是所有组织中必不可少的免疫细胞,对于维持组织稳态、免疫监视和免疫反应至关重要。在稳态过程中,人们付出了巨大努力来确定不同器官中巨噬细胞的共同基因程序和组织特异性基因程序。这些信息极大地增进了我们对组织限制性巨噬细胞编程和功能的理解。然而,很少有研究探讨炎症后巨噬细胞亚群的重叠反应和组织特异性反应。在多项研究中观察到的一种巨噬细胞亚群,即脂质相关巨噬细胞(LAM),因其在脂质代谢中的独特作用以及作为治疗靶点的潜力而受到关注。LAM与调节包括动脉粥样硬化、肥胖和代谢功能障碍相关脂肪性肝病在内的代谢相关疾病的疾病结局有关。我们利用单细胞RNA测序数据集来描绘小鼠和人类多种组织以及炎症条件下LAM的多样性,以定义一个共同的LAM转录图谱,包括Trem2和Lpl,以及组织特异性基因程序集。重要的是,LAM标记与炎症中出现的人类LAM群体高度保守。总体而言,该分析提供了组织限制性和共同的LAM基因程序的详细转录图谱,这些数据可能有助于指导针对广泛或组织限制性治疗干预的合适分子靶点,以调节疾病中的LAM群体。