Mechanisms of Epigenomic and Functional Convergence Between Glucocorticoid and IL4-Driven Macrophage Programming

Macrophages adopt distinct phenotypes in response to environmental cues, with type-2 cytokine interleukin-4 promoting a tissue-repair homeostatic state (M2IL4). Glucocorticoids, 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 GC 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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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 19. Feb. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Deochand, Dinesh K [VerfasserIn]
Dacic, Marija [VerfasserIn]
Bale, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Daman, Andrew W [VerfasserIn]
Josefowicz, Steven Z [VerfasserIn]
Oliver, David [VerfasserIn]
Chinenov, Yurii [VerfasserIn]
Rogatsky, Inez [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.02.16.580560

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XBI04254453X