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Lipid-Associated Macrophages Control Metabolic Homeostasis in a Trem2-Dependent Manner
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Immune cells residing in white adipose tissue have been highlighted as important factors contributing to the pathogenesis of metabolic diseases, but the molecular regulators that drive adipose tissue immune cell remodeling during obesity remain largely unknown. Using index and transcriptional single-cell sorting, we comprehensively map all adipose tissue immune populations in both mice and humans during obesity. We describe a novel and conserved Trem2+ lipid-associated macrophage (LAM) subset and identify markers, spatial localization, origin, and functional pathways associated with these cells. Genetic ablation of Trem2 in mice globally inhibits the downstream molecular LAM program, leading to adipocyte hypertrophy as well as systemic hypercholesterolemia, body fat accumulation, and glucose intolerance. These findings identify Trem2 signaling as a major pathway by which macrophages respond to loss of tissue-level lipid homeostasis, highlighting Trem2 as a key sensor of metabolic pathologies across multiple tissues and a potential therapeutic target in metabolic diseases.
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“MASH is associated with the emergence of lipid-associated macrophages (LAM) that highly express Trem2 along with Cd9, Gpnmb, and Spp1 (3–5)”
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“While the majority of murine studies to date have suggested a role for LAMs/LAM-like KCs in tissue repair, contributing to dead cell and lipid clearance, thus reducing lipotoxic stress, and preventing uncontrolled inflammation (36, 108, 122–126)”
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“TREM2 ligands include a variety of molecules, such as bacterial wall products, Aβ oligomers, lipoproteins, and anionic lipids, such as phospholipids and sphingolipids29,32–35”
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“Notably, these included the lysosomal enzymes ASAH1, LIPA, CTSA, CTSG, CTSZ, PLA2G15 and PPT1, enzymes part of the Coordinated Lysosomal Expression and Regulation network60, as well as PLA2G7, previously associated with atherosclerotic plaques61 and with the LAM48 and MIMS-foamy microglial states11.”
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“The foamy, GPNMB+ microglial phenotype in MS lesions bears striking transcriptional similarity to LAMs in obesity, amyloid-responsive microglia in Alzheimer’s disease and foam cells in atherosclerosis18,46,48,50,51.”
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“The disease-associated phenotype of microglia seems to be shared by aging, as well as neurological and non-neurological diseases with different etiology, e.g. AD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Holtman et al., 2015; Keren-Shaul et al., 2017), atherosclerosis and obesity, characterized by lipid overload (Jaitin et al., 2019; Martinet et al., 2019).”
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“There was considerable overlap between the Micro_D profile and previously reported microglial states, such as the MIMS-foamy state reported in ref. 11, amyloid-associated microglia in Alzheimer’s disease43,46,47 and lipid-associated macrophages (LAMs) in obesity48 (Extended Data Fig. 8).”
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“In the adipose tissue, TREM2 sustains the presence of a population of lipid-associated macrophages (LAMs) that prevent the dysmetabolism engendered by a high-fat diet (Jaitin et al., 2019).”
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“lipid-associated macrophages have recently been identified in mouse and human adipose tissue, where TREM2 expression was found to regulate lipid homeostasis [57].”
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“However, in experimental liver fibrosis in murine models, TREM2-deficient macrophages failed to acquire reparative phenotypes, showed impaired efferocytosis, and exacerbated fibrogenesis (36, 122–126).”
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“These monocyte-derived/bone marrow-dependent macrophages in NASH livers share striking similarities with macrophages in related extrahepatic compartments such as the bone marrow or adipose tissue,72,73 including a subset of “lipid-associated macrophages” with a unique metabolically activated phenotype.74”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jaitin, D. A., Adlung, L., Thaiss, C. A., Weiner, A., Li, B., Descamps, H., Lundgren, P., Bleriot, C., Liu, Z., Deczkowska, A., Keren-Shaul, H., David, E., Zmora, N., Eldar, S. M., Lubezky, N., Shibolet, O., Hill, D. A., Lazar, M. A., Colonna, M., Ginhoux, F., Shapiro, H., Elinav, E., & Amit, I.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (IL)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Elinav, Eran
- Amit, Ido
- ORCID
- Jaitin, Diego Adhemar
- Adlung, Lorenz
- Thaiss, Christoph A.
- Weiner, Assaf
- Li, Baoguo
- Descamps, Hélène
- Lundgren, Patrick
- Liu, Zhaoyuan
- Deczkowska, Aleksandra
- David, Eyal
- Zmora, Niv
- Eldar, Shai Meron
- Lubezky, Nir
- Shibolet, Oren
- Hill, David A.
- Lazar, Mitchell A.
- Colonna, Marco
- Ginhoux, Florent
- Shapiro, Hagit
- Elinav, Eran
- Amit, Ido
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-07
- Volume
- 178
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 686-698.e14
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7068689
- OpenAlex
- W2955261360
- Cited by
- 1,377
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 243 · 2025: 244 · 2024: 229 · 2023: 218 · 2022: 170 · 2021: 152 · 2020: 97 · 2019: 20
- FWCI
- 83.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- HHMI
- European Research Council (724471-HemTree2.0)
- Thompson Family Foundation
- MRA (509044)
- Foundation (703/15)
- Ernest and Bonnie Beutler Research Program for Excellence in Genomic Medicine
- Helen and Martin Kimmel
- NeuroMac DFG/Transregional Collaborative Research Center
- International Progressive MS Alliance
- NMSS (PA-1604-08459)
- Adelis Foundation
- Wolfson Foundation
- NIH (DK116668, DK49780)
- CHOP
- The Center for Applied Genomics
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Human Metabolic Tissue Bank
- Penn Diabetes Research Center (P30 NIH DK19525, P30-DK-019525)
- Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation
- Agilent
- Global Probiotics Council
- PennCHOP Microbiome Program
- Penn Institute for Immunology
- Penn Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases (P30-DK-050306)
- Penn Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center (P30-AR-069589)
- Gilead Sciences International Research Scholars Program in Liver Disease
- The V.R. Schwartz Research Fellow Chair
- Y. and R. Ungar
- Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
- J.L. and V. Schwartz
- D.L. Schwarz
- Israel Science Foundation
- Helmholtz Foundation
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
- Keywords
- TREM2, lipid-associated macrophages, white adipose tissue, obesity, adipose tissue macrophages, metabolic homeostasis, adipocyte hypertrophy, hypercholesterolemia, impaired glucose tolerance, single-cell transcriptomics, macrophage origin, metabolic disorders
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Humans, Lipids, Macrophages, Membrane Glycoproteins, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Monocytes, Obesity, Receptors, Immunologic, Signal Transduction, Glucose Intolerance, Mice, Knockout, Intra-Abdominal Fat, Lipid Metabolism, Mice, Adipose Tissue, White, Single-Cell Analysis, Diet, High-Fat
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