Global chromatin accessibility using an Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin sequencing (ATAC-seq) reveals epigenomic reprogramming of Adipose tissue macrophages toward proinflammatory and proangiogenic phenotypes in formerly obese mice.
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ABSTRACT: We report sustained changes in the chromatin accessibility landscape of adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) from high fat diet (HFD)-fed mice persist long after return to regular diet (RD). We compared the data of ATAC-seq performed on nuclei extracted from FACS-sorted ATMs isolated from HFD, RD-RD and HFD-RD-fed mice. Inter-group comparisons revealed the highest diversity and hence the greatest number of differentially accessible regions (DARs) to occur between ATMs from RD-RD and HFD-RD-fed mice, and considerably fewer DARs were identified between ATMs from HFD-RD vs HFD-fed mice. Association of DARs with the nearest gene and gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis revealed considerable pathway enrichment, especially pathways coding for angiogenesis and inflammatory response, in HFD-RD group when compared to RD-RD group. The results altogether indicated that most changes in chromatin landscape induced by HFD-feeding are maintained as open chromatin positions for a long time, suggesting that HFD-feeding leads to long-term reprograming of ATMs and renders them prone to pro-angiogenic and pro-inflammatory responses.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE175614 | GEO | 2024/01/25
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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