Project description:Macrophages are central in regulating iron homeostasis. Transcription repressor Bach2 regulates by heme. Here we investigated the relationship between heme-regulated Bach2 and macrophage in spleen. We found that gene expression were not many change between WT and Bach2 knock out mice in red-pulp macrophage.Our results suggest that the function of the red-pulp macrophage is not dependent on according to expression of Bach2.
Project description:To study TAM phenotypes in hemorrhagic tumor tissues, we treated GFP-MC3 tumor-bearing mice with a single injection of immunotherapeutic anti-CD40 antibody on day 7 after tumor cell injection. Three days later, the tumors were collected for histology and genome-wide spatial analysis of mRNA expression. In both tumor samples, H&E histology visualized extensive tumor necrosis with RBCs extravasated into the necrotic areas of the tumors. Spatial gene-expression analysis allowed us to perform more detailed phenotyping, clearly discriminating zones of remaining viable cancer surrounded by hemorrhagic necrosis as evidenced by the enrichment of RBC-derived RNA (Hbb-bs). In these hemorrhagic regions, we found a Cd68 signal, confirming macrophage infiltration, superimposed by a strong signal for Hmox1 and Arg1. Like CD163 and Spp1 in human cancers, Arg1 is the archetypal marker gene for pro-cancerous and immunosuppressive TAMs in the mouse.
Project description:Heme generates an atheroprotective macrophage phenotype in humans, in coronary atherosclerotic intraplaque hemorrhage. We carried out microarray analysis to define this phenotype and assess its likely mechanism. Paired samples, at 2 time points, on monocytes from n=4 human donors
Project description:Macrophages are central in regulating iron homeostasis. Transcription repressor Bach1 regulates by heme. Here we investigated the relationship between heme-regulated Bach1 and bone marrow derived macrophage. We found that Bach1 KO macrophage showed that up-regulated genes were the process that iron-heme homeostasis and maintenance related gene compared with WT. Our results suggest that Bach1 expression is important to the heme homeostasis and maintenance in the bone marrow derived macrophage.
Project description:The heme catabolism pathway is often elevated in aggressive cancers; however, the impact of this pathway and some of its byproducts on the tumor microenvironment remain largely unknown. In human breast cancers, tumor expression of the heme catabolizing enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1/HMOX1) is positively associated with macrophage abundance. In mouse mammary tumors, knockdown of Hmox1 significantly decreased tumor growth and lung metastasis. Analysis of mammary tumor interstitial fluid compared to matching plasma revealed that the heme metabolite bilirubin was elevated intratumorally, which could be partially reversed via Hmox1 knockdown. Further investigation revealed that bilirubin nearly ablates macrophage engulfment of dead tumor cells and significantly increases macrophage T cell suppression. Mammary tumors harboring Hmox1 knockdown had a significant decrease in tumor growth rate and number of pro-metastatic CD206+ macrophages upon treatment with αPD-1. Depletion of intratumoral bilirubin levels impacts pro-tumor macrophage populations, particularly in combination with immunotherapy, demonstrating that heme catabolism and bilirubin act as immunomodulators in cancer.
Project description:Heme generates an atheroprotective macrophage phenotype in humans, in coronary atherosclerotic intraplaque hemorrhage. We carried out microarray analysis to define this phenotype and assess its likely mechanism.
Project description:Macrophages are central in regulating iron homeostasis. Transcription repressor Bach2 regulates by heme. Here we investigated the relationship between heme-regulated Bach2 and macrophage in bone marrow. We identified RFP-positive and negative macrophage were in bone marrow. We found that RFP-positive macrophage related with iron-heme homeostasis maintenance and RPF-negative population related with immune response. In RFP positive macrophage, we also found the lysosomal heme transporter hrg-1 was Bach2 direct target gene. Our results suggest that the function of the bone marrow macrophage alters according to expression of Bach2.
Project description:Splenic red pulp macrophages (RPM) degrade senescent erythrocytes and recycle heme-associated iron. The transcription factor Spic is selectively expressed by RPM and is required for their development, but the physiologic stimulus inducing Spic is unknown. Here, we report that Spic also regulated the development of F4/80+VCAM+ bone marrow macrophages (BMM) and that Spic expression in BMM and RPM development was induced by heme, a metabolite of erythrocyte degradation. Pathologic hemolysis induced loss of RPM and BMM due to excess heme but induced Spic in monocytes to generate new RPM and BMM. Spic expression in monocytes was constitutively inhibited by the transcriptional repressor Bach1. Heme induced proteasome-dependent BACH1 degradation and rapid Spic derepression. Further, cysteine-proline dipeptide motifs in BACH1 that mediate heme-dependent degradation were necessary for Spic induction by heme. These findings are the first example of metabolite-driven differentiation of a tissue-resident macrophage subset and provide new insight into iron homeostasis. Global gene expression pattern of bone marrow-derived macrophages generated with GM-CSF in vitro and treated with heme were compared to those treated with vehicle at 6 hours, 24 hours, and 72 hours after treatment.