Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming

Abstract Macrophages adopt distinct phenotypes in response to environmental cues, with type-2 cytokine interleukin-4 promoting a tissue-repair homeostatic state (M2IL4). Glucocorticoids (GC), widely used anti-inflammatory therapeutics, reportedly impart a similar phenotype (M2GC), but how such dispa...

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Main Authors: Dinesh K. Deochand, Marija Dacic, Michael J. Bale, Andrew W. Daman, Vidyanath Chaudhary, Steven Z. Josefowicz, David Oliver, Yurii Chinenov, Inez Rogatsky
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52942-x
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author Dinesh K. Deochand
Marija Dacic
Michael J. Bale
Andrew W. Daman
Vidyanath Chaudhary
Steven Z. Josefowicz
David Oliver
Yurii Chinenov
Inez Rogatsky
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Marija Dacic
Michael J. Bale
Andrew W. Daman
Vidyanath Chaudhary
Steven Z. Josefowicz
David Oliver
Yurii Chinenov
Inez Rogatsky
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description Abstract Macrophages adopt distinct phenotypes in response to environmental cues, with type-2 cytokine interleukin-4 promoting a tissue-repair homeostatic state (M2IL4). Glucocorticoids (GC), widely used anti-inflammatory therapeutics, reportedly impart a similar phenotype (M2GC), but how such disparate pathways may functionally converge is unknown. We show using integrative functional genomics that M2IL4 and M2GC transcriptomes share a striking overlap mirrored by a shift in chromatin landscape in both common and signal-specific gene subsets. This core homeostatic program is enacted by transcriptional effectors KLF4 and the glucocorticoid receptor, whose genome-wide occupancy and actions are integrated in a stimulus-specific manner by the nuclear receptor cofactor GRIP1. Indeed, many of the M2IL4:M2GC-shared transcriptomic changes were GRIP1-dependent. Consistently, GRIP1 loss attenuated phagocytic activity of both populations in vitro and macrophage tissue-repair properties in the murine colitis model in vivo. These findings provide a mechanistic framework for homeostatic macrophage programming by distinct signals, to better inform anti-inflammatory drug design.
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spelling doaj-art-e001cea56d514630ba8df70cb5e572f32025-08-20T02:17:50ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232024-10-0115111810.1038/s41467-024-52942-xMechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programmingDinesh K. Deochand0Marija Dacic1Michael J. Bale2Andrew W. Daman3Vidyanath Chaudhary4Steven Z. Josefowicz5David Oliver6Yurii Chinenov7Inez Rogatsky8Hospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics CenterHospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics CenterDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell MedicineDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell MedicineHospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics CenterDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell MedicineHospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics CenterHospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics CenterHospital for Special Surgery Research Institute, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics CenterAbstract Macrophages adopt distinct phenotypes in response to environmental cues, with type-2 cytokine interleukin-4 promoting a tissue-repair homeostatic state (M2IL4). Glucocorticoids (GC), widely used anti-inflammatory therapeutics, reportedly impart a similar phenotype (M2GC), but how such disparate pathways may functionally converge is unknown. We show using integrative functional genomics that M2IL4 and M2GC transcriptomes share a striking overlap mirrored by a shift in chromatin landscape in both common and signal-specific gene subsets. This core homeostatic program is enacted by transcriptional effectors KLF4 and the glucocorticoid receptor, whose genome-wide occupancy and actions are integrated in a stimulus-specific manner by the nuclear receptor cofactor GRIP1. Indeed, many of the M2IL4:M2GC-shared transcriptomic changes were GRIP1-dependent. Consistently, GRIP1 loss attenuated phagocytic activity of both populations in vitro and macrophage tissue-repair properties in the murine colitis model in vivo. These findings provide a mechanistic framework for homeostatic macrophage programming by distinct signals, to better inform anti-inflammatory drug design.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52942-x
spellingShingle Dinesh K. Deochand
Marija Dacic
Michael J. Bale
Andrew W. Daman
Vidyanath Chaudhary
Steven Z. Josefowicz
David Oliver
Yurii Chinenov
Inez Rogatsky
Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming
Nature Communications
title Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming
title_full Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming
title_fullStr Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming
title_full_unstemmed Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming
title_short Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming
title_sort mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid and il4 driven macrophage programming
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52942-x
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