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ArticleCommunications biology2022

Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal differences between low-grade inflammation and severe exhaustion in LPS-challenged murine monocytes.

Lynette B Naler, Yuan-Pang Hsieh, Shuo Geng, Zirui Zhou, Liwu Li, Chang Lu

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Article in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lynette B Naler *Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1336-3236
Yuan-Pang Hsieh *Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-9840
Shuo GengDepartment of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Zirui ZhouDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Liwu LiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. lwli@vt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8870-5299
Chang LuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. changlu@vt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0181-5888
Virginia Tech · US

Funding

Modulation of innate immune cellular homeostasis and inflammation resolutionR01HL115835 · NHLBI · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI LI, LIWU · 2012 to 2021
$3.6M
Altered innate leukocyte programming dynamics in sepsisR01AI136386 · NIAID · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI LI, LIWU · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
Probing dynamics in protein-DNA interactions during disease development using sinR01EB017235 · NIBIB · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI LU, CHANG · 2014 to 2017
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL115835NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI136386NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017235
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging studies suggest that monocytes can be trained by bacterial endotoxin to adopt distinct memory states ranging from low-grade inflammation to immune exhaustion. While low-grade inflammation may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic diseases, exhausted monocytes with pathogenic and immune-suppressive characteristics may underlie the pathogenesis of polymicrobial sepsis including COVID-19. However, detailed processes by which the dynamic adaption of monocytes occur remain poorly understood. Here we exposed murine bone-marrow derived monocytes to chronic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation at low-dose or high-dose, as well as a PBS control. The cells were profiled for genome-wide H3K27ac modification and gene expression. The gene expression of TRAM-deficient and IRAK-M-deficient monocytes with LPS exposure was also analyzed. We discover that low-grade inflammation preferentially utilizes the TRAM-dependent pathway of TLR4 signaling, and induces the expression of interferon response genes. In contrast, high dose LPS uniquely upregulates exhaustion signatures with metabolic and proliferative pathways. The extensive differences in the epigenomic landscape between low-dose and high-dose conditions suggest the importance of epigenetic regulations in driving differential responses. Our data provide potential targets for future mechanistic or therapeutic studies.

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EpigenomicsTranscriptomeAnimalsCOVID-19Dose-Response Relationship, DrugInflammationLipopolysaccharidesMiceMonocytesSARS-CoV-2Lipopolysaccharides

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PMID35091696
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