STAT1 sets microglial neutral-lipid content independently of lipid-handling transcriptional programs
El Mesaoudi, A.; Lundby, J. M. B.; De Jong, N.; Luo, Y.; Lin, L.; Kim, D. W.
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Inflammatory activation and lipid remodeling are linked features of microglial states, but how inflammatory transcription factors shape microglial lipid handling is unclear. Here we show that STAT1 sets neutral-lipid content in microglia through a route not predicted by lipid-handling transcription. Acute STAT1 depletion in primary microglia lowered neutral-lipid content while lipid-uptake and lipid-storage programs were induced, and interferon-{gamma} activation moved inflammatory transcription in the opposite direction yet lowered lipid content alike. Single-cell transcriptomic and chromatin profiling of Stat1- and Irf1-deficient mice showed that STAT1 and IRF1 organize overlapping inflammatory and lipid-handling programs, with genome-wide accessibility changes that did not predict transcriptional output at individual lipid-handling loci. Microglia co-expressing STAT1 and APOE recurred across Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis datasets. Transcriptional program engagement is therefore separable from cellular lipid state, and lipid-handling gene expression cannot be read as a proxy for microglial lipid content.
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