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Title: Transcriptional circuitry atlas of genetic diverse unstimulated murine and human macrophages define disparity in population-wide innate immunity.

Authors: Mishra, Bharat; Athar, Mohammad; Mukhtar, M Shahid

Published In Sci Rep, (2021 04 01)

Abstract: Macrophages are ubiquitous custodians of tissues, which play decisive role in maintaining cellular homeostasis through regulatory immune responses. Within tissues, macrophage exhibit extremely heterogeneous population with varying functions orchestrated through regulatory response, which can be further exacerbated in diverse genetic backgrounds. Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) offer comprehensive understanding of cellular regulatory behavior by unfolding the transcription factors (TFs) and regulated target genes. RNA-Seq coupled with ATAC-Seq has revolutionized the regulome landscape influenced by gene expression modeling. Here, we employ an integrative multi-omics systems biology-based analysis and generated GRNs derived from the unstimulated bone marrow-derived macrophages of five inbred genetically defined murine strains, which are reported to be linked with most of the population-wide human genetic variants. Our probabilistic modeling of a basal hemostasis pan regulatory repertoire in diverse macrophages discovered 96 TFs targeting 6279 genes representing 468,291 interactions across five inbred murine strains. Subsequently, we identify core and distinctive GRN sub-networks in unstimulated macrophages to describe the system-wide conservation and dissimilarities, respectively across five murine strains. Our study concludes that discrepancies in unstimulated macrophage-specific regulatory networks not only drives the basal functional plasticity within genetic backgrounds, additionally aid in understanding the complexity of racial disparity among the human population during stress.

PubMed ID: 33795737 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Animals; Chromatin/metabolism; Computational Biology; Ethnicity; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Expression Regulation; Gene Regulatory Networks; Genetic Variation; Homeostasis; Humans; Immune System; Immunity, Innate/genetics*; Macrophages/metabolism*; Mice; Signal Transduction; Systems Biology; Transcription Factors/metabolism; Transcription, Genetic*; Transcriptome

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