Systems level identification of a matrisome-associated macrophage polarisation state in multi-organ fibrosis

  1. John F Ouyang  Is a corresponding author
  2. Kunal Mishra
  3. Yi Xie
  4. Harry Park
  5. Kevin Y Huang
  6. Enrico Petretto  Is a corresponding author
  7. Jacques Behmoaras  Is a corresponding author
  1. Centre for Computational Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
  2. Programme in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
  3. Institute for Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Science, China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), China
  4. Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
5 figures, 1 table and 1 additional file

Figures

Figure 1 with 6 supplements
SPP1+ macrophages are increased during fibrotic disease across human tissues.

(A–F) Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) dimensionality reduction of all monocytes and macrophages in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) of liver (A), lung (B), heart (C), skin …

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Marker genes for monocyte / macrophages.

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Marker genes for TREM2+ macrophages.

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GSEA analysis of DEG between SPP1+ macrophages and other macrophages in each tissue.

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Data-driven clustering of liver macrophages.

(A) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of single-cell unsupervised Louvain clustering results at different resolutions, which dictates the granularity of clustering. The …

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Data-driven clustering of lung macrophages.

(A) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of single-cell unsupervised Louvain clustering results at different resolutions, which dictates the granularity of clustering. The …

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Data-driven clustering of heart macrophages.

(A) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of single-cell unsupervised Louvain clustering results at different resolutions, which dictates the granularity of clustering. The …

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Data-driven clustering of skin macrophages.

(A) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of single-cell unsupervised Louvain clustering results at different resolutions, which dictates the granularity of clustering. The …

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Data-driven clustering of endometrium macrophages.

(A) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of single-cell unsupervised Louvain clustering results at different resolutions, which dictates the granularity of clustering. The …

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Data-driven clustering of kidney macrophages.

(A) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of single-cell unsupervised Louvain clustering results at different resolutions, which dictates the granularity of clustering. The …

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Identification of a matrisome-associated macrophage (MAM) state within SPP1+ macrophages.

(A) Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) dimensionality reduction of all SPP1+ macrophages merged from the liver, lung, heart, skin, endometrium, and kidney tissues following data …

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Marker genes for subclusters within SPP1+ macrophages.

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Signature genes of SPP1+MAM+ macrophages.

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GSEA analysis of pathways upregulated/downregulated in SPP1+MAM+ macrophages (relative to SPP1+MAM- macrophages).

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Signature genes of "ECM-remodeling processes" upregulated in SPP1+MAM+ macrophages.

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Signature genes of "metabolic processes" upregulated in SPP1+MAM+ macrophages.

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Data-driven clustering of SPP1+ macrophages identifies a matrisome-associated macrophage polarisation state.

(A) Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) projection of SPP1+ macrophages, coloured by their tissue of origin. (B) Scatterplot of Silhouette score (see Materials and methods) of …

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Markers of SPP1+MAM+ as predicted by COMET.

Scatterplot ranks the number of occurrences of a gene in a four-marker panel of SPP1+MAM+ macrophages, as predicted by COMET (see Materials and methods). The Elbow method (dashed lines) was employed …

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Derivation of disease-associated microglia (DAM) transcriptomic signature from the temporal lobe of epilepsy patients.

(A) t-SNE of immune cells isolated from the temporal lobe epilepsy patients (Kumar et al., 2022b; in the manuscript; n=4 patients). Microglial cells as defined in the original paper are coloured in …

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Derivation of scar-associated macrophages (SAMs) from human liver data.

(A) Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) of human liver macrophages coloured by a SAM signature score defined using the genes SPP1, TREM2, and CD9. (B) Applying a z-score cutoff of …

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The differentiation trajectory of SPP1+MAM+ macrophages across human tissues.

(A–F) Slingshot differentiation trajectory analyses of macrophages in the liver (A), lung (B), heart (C), skin (D), endometrium (E), and kidney (F). The predicted trajectories are drawn on Uniform …

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Monocle analysis recapitulates the conserved differentiation trajectory from FCN1+ monocytes to SPP1+ macrophages across multiple tissues.

Monocle differentiation trajectory analyses in the liver, lung, heart, skin, endometrium, and kidney (see Table 1 for information regarding the origin of human tissues and the number of sequenced …

A core set of regulon activity associate with SPP1+MAM+ differentiation.

(A) Rank plot for the 173 regulons active in SPP1+MAM+ macrophages, ordered by the diagnostic odd ratio (DOR) (y-axis), which calculates the odds of the regulon being activated in SPP1+MAM+ cells …

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SPP1+MAM- gene signature is associated with ageing in mice and humans.

(A) Scatterplot evaluating the pseudo-bulk expression of the homeostatic RNASE1+, SPP1+MAM-, SPP1+MAM+, SPP1+MAM+ extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling, and SPP1+MAM+ metabolic processes signatures …

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Homeostatic macrophage signatures modelled against age and stratified by smoking status.

The homeostatic RNASE1+ signature, pseudo-bulk at the donor level, is further stratified according to the donor’s smoking status and linear regression is performed separately on each of the donor …

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SPP1+MAM- signature is associated with ageing in mice kidneys.

Violin plots summarising the SPP1+MAM-, SPP1+MAM+, SPP1+MAM+ extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling, and SPP1+MAM+ metabolic processes signatures in healthy mouse kidney macrophages taken from …

Tables

Table 1
Summary of scRNA-seq datasets analysed in this study.

For each study, the sample size (number of single-cell datasets), age/gender, disease status, the number (and percentage) of tissue resident macrophages (Mφ), and the total number of live cells …

TissueStudy(ref in article)RepositoryDisease statusSample size (n)Sex (%M)Age (years)± SDTissueMφ (%)Total cells (#)
LiverRamachandran et al., 2019GSE136103Cirrhosis580.056.6±5.88332
(13.9%)
60,094
CD45+ cells1
Normal560.057.4±7.9
LiverFred et al., 2022Author provided dataNASH1050.047.0±7.52069
(12.1%)
17,154
LungMorse et al., 2019GSE128033IPF333.369.3±0.617,570
(39.3%)
44,652
Normal450.038.3±20.6
LungReyfman et al., 2019GSE122960IPF47566.5±5.032,136
(41.7%)
77,079
Normal82542.9±15.5
SSC2046.0±9.9
LungAdams et al., 2020GSE136831IPF3281.365.4±5.4117,184
(37.4%)
312,928
Normal1758.844.4±18.9
LungValenzi et al., 2019GSE128169
GSE156310
IPF1100.068.017,407
(44.3%)
39,252
SSC475.056.8±9.5
HeartKoenig et al., 2022GSE183852DCM560.050.0±19.23,922
(7.9%)
49,665
Normal2100.050.5±17.7
HeartRao et al., 2021GSE145154DCM2100.061.0±1.420,539
(30.0%)
68,516
CD45+ cells
ICM4100.047.3±10.6
Normal1100.053.0
Skin2Gur et al., 2022GSE195452Normal2222.744.8±10.42456
(15.6%)
15,700
CD45+ cells
SSC555.450.1±13.2
SkinDeng et al., 2021GSE163973Keloid366.725.6±7.3320
(0.7%)
45,094
Normal366.731.0±7.0
Endo- metriumTan et al., 2022GSE179640Endometriosis90.035.8±5.83079
(8.6%)
35,941
Normal30.033.3±10.3
Endo- metriumFonseca et al., 2023GSE213216Endometriosis220.034.1±7.62951
(1.8%)
163,882
Normal80.037.9±10.1
KidneyKuppe et al., 2021Zenodo
4059315
CKD666.770.8±12.53596
(7.5%)
48,096
CD10- cells
Normal4100.065.3±11.3
KidneyLake et al., 2023atlas.kpmp.orgAKI1172.750.2±19.11597
(3.5%)
46,249
CKD1566.761.9±12.7
Normal1450.045.9±10.3
KidneyMalone et al., 2020GSE145927AKI3100.049.3±18.22772
(4.6%)
60,080
Normal250.054.0±1.0

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