The transcriptional coregulator GRIP1 controls macrophage polarization and metabolic homeostasis

Maddalena Coppo, Yurii Chinenov, Maria A. Sacta and Inez Rogatsky ()
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Maddalena Coppo: The David Rosensweig Genomics Center, Hospital for Special Surgery
Yurii Chinenov: The David Rosensweig Genomics Center, Hospital for Special Surgery
Maria A. Sacta: Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
Inez Rogatsky: The David Rosensweig Genomics Center, Hospital for Special Surgery

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Abstract Diet-induced obesity causes chronic macrophage-driven inflammation in white adipose tissue (WAT) leading to insulin resistance. WAT macrophages, however, differ in their origin, gene expression and activities: unlike infiltrating monocyte-derived inflammatory macrophages, WAT-resident macrophages counteract inflammation and insulin resistance, yet, the mechanisms underlying their transcriptional programming remain poorly understood. We recently reported that a nuclear receptor cofactor—glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-interacting protein (GRIP)1—cooperates with GR to repress inflammatory genes. Here, we show that GRIP1 facilitates macrophage programming in response to IL4 via a GR-independent pathway by serving as a coactivator for Kruppel-like factor (KLF)4—a driver of tissue-resident macrophage differentiation. Moreover, obese mice conditionally lacking GRIP1 in macrophages develop massive macrophage infiltration and inflammation in metabolic tissues, fatty livers, hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance recapitulating metabolic disease. Thus, GRIP1 is a critical regulator of immunometabolism, which engages distinct transcriptional mechanisms to coordinate the balance between macrophage populations and ultimately promote metabolic homeostasis.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12254

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