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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Identification of conserved and tissue-restricted transcriptional profiles for lipid associated macrophages.

Yingzheng Xu, Hannah Hillman, Michael Chang, Fanta Barrow, Stoyan Ivanov, Xavier S Revelo, Jesse W Williams

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. More Than a Cleanup Crew: The Expanding Biology of Efferocytosis.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2026
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  16. Mechanisms of Lipid-Associated Macrophage Accrual in Metabolically Stressed Adipose Tissue.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Yingzheng XuCenter for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Hannah HillmanCenter for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Michael ChangCenter for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Fanta BarrowCenter for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Stoyan IvanovUniversité Côte d'Azur, CNRS, LP2M, Nice, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0527-2297
Xavier S ReveloCenter for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Jesse W WilliamsCenter for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. JWW@umn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3815-0891

Funding

Sex and stress hormones control adrenal gland macrophage development and function"R01AI165553 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI WILLIAMS, JESSE WARREN · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
Regulation of Foamy Macrophage Differentiation and Survival in AtherosclerosisR01HL166843 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Jesse Warren Williams · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
Inclusive Excellence Training Program in the Systems Biology of Cardiovascular InflammationT32HL166142 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI JOSEPH Mark METZGER · 2023 to 2026
$817k
American Heart Association (American Heart Association, Inc.) 25PRE1361476NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL166843NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL166142NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI165553U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) HL166142U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) HL166843U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) AI165553
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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Lipid MetabolismMacrophagesTranscriptomeAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingHumansInflammationMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLOrgan Specificity

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PMID40550904
PMCPMC12185701

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