Project description:We purified FAPs from the hind limbs of wild type, mdx and cardiotoxin-injured mice in order to unveil changes in their transcriptomes. RNA was isolated directly from sorted cells and analyzed by 3’ RNA sequencing.
Project description:Renal endothelial cells (RECs) from glomerular cortical and medullary kidney compartments are exposed to different microenvironmental conditions. Upon dehydration medullary RECs (mRECs) are exposed to extreme hyperosmolarity. However the heterogeneous phenotypes of RECs remain in-completely inventoried and how mRECs respond to dehydration is unknown. By single cell RNA-sequencing of >40000 RECs we identified 24 (including 8 novel) REC phenotypes highlighting extensive heterogeneity of RECs between and within the cortex glomeruli and medulla. In response to dehydration mRECs upregulated primarily the expression of genes involved in the hypoxia response glycolysis and surprisingly oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). In vitro mRECs increased oxygen consumption in response to hyperosmolarity presumably to sustain ATP production for Na+/K+ ATPase pump-mediated salt excretion and to generate metabolic water during OXPHOS in order to counteract mREC hyperosmolarity unveiling a previously underappreciated role of OXPHOS. Overall RECs exhibit extensive heterogeneity and plasticity to adapt their metabolic transcriptome to overcome dehydration.
Project description:The heterogeneity of endothelial cells (ECs), lining blood vessels, across tissues remains incompletely inventoried. We constructed an atlas of >32,000 single-EC transcriptomic data from 11 tissues of the model organism Mus musculus. We propose a new classification of EC phenotypes based on transcriptome signatures and inferred putative biological features. We identified top-ranking markers for ECs from each tissue. ECs from different vascular beds (arteries, capillaries, veins, lymphatics) resembled each other across tissues, but only arterial, venous and lymphatic (not capillary) ECs shared markers, illustrating a greater heterogeneity of capillary ECs. We identified high-endothelial-venule and lacteal-like ECs in the intestines, and angiogenic ECs in healthy tissues. Metabolic transcriptomes of ECs differed amongst spleen, lung, liver, brain and testis, while being similar for kidney, heart, muscle and intestines. Within tissues, metabolic gene expression was heterogeneous amongst ECs from different vascular beds, altogether highlighting large EC heterogeneity.
Project description:Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data was generated from colonic tissue from Hsp60Δ/ΔIEC and Hsp60fl/fl mice at day 8 enriched in intestinal epithelial cells (IECs).
Project description:Age-related decline in brain endothelial cell (BEC) function critically contributes to cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease. Comprehensive atlases of the BEC transcriptome have become available but results from proteomic profiling are lacking. To gain insights into endothelial pathways affected by aging, we developed a magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS)-based mouse BEC enrichment protocol compatible with high-resolution mass-spectrometry based proteomics. In this experiment, first we have compared MACS sorted BECs across multiple time points between 3 and 18 months of age. Using unsupervised cluster analysis, we found a segregation of age-related protein dynamics with biological functions including a downregulation of vesicle-mediated transport. Our approach uncovered changes not picked up by transcriptomic studies such as accumulation of vesicle cargo and receptor ligands including Apoe. Therefor in our next proteomics experiment we compared BECs from 3-months-old Apoe-KO and WT mice and found 111 and 103 proteins to be up- and downregulated, respectively. Comparing the BEC proteomic signature of young Apoe-KO mice with the signature of aged (18-months-old) WT mice we found a positive correlation suggesting an accelerating effect of Apoe deficiency on BEC aging.
Project description:Age-related decline in brain endothelial cell (BEC) function critically contributes to cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease. Comprehensive atlases of the BEC transcriptome have become available but results from proteomic profiling are lacking. To gain insights into endothelial pathways affected by aging, we developed a magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS)-based mouse BEC enrichment protocol compatible with high-resolution mass-spectrometry and analysed the profiles of protein abundance changes across multiple time points between 3 and 18 months of age and identified Arf6 as one of the most prominently downregulated vesicle-mediated transport protein during BEC aging. To better understand the role of Arf6 in BECs, in this experiment we have compared MACS sorted BECs from Arf6-KO and WT 3-months-old mice and found 140 and 172 proteins to be significantly down- and upregulated, respectively. Enrichment analyses of significantly downregulated proteins showed mRNA processing to be among the most affected biological processes consistent with our findings on the aged BEC proteome.
Project description:Age-related decline in brain endothelial cell (BEC) function critically contributes to cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease. Comprehensive atlases of the BEC transcriptome have become available but results from proteomic profiling are lacking. To gain insights into endothelial pathways affected by aging, we developed a magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS)-based mouse BEC enrichment protocol compatible with high-resolution mass-spectrometry and analysed the profiles of protein abundance changes across multiple time points between 3 and 18 months of age and identified Arf6 as one of the most prominently downregulated vesicle-mediated transport protein during BEC aging. To better understand the role of Arf6 in BECs, in this experiment we have compared MACS sorted BECs from Arf6-GFP-AAV vs GFP-AAV treated 3-months-old WT mice and found 86 and 110 proteins to be significantly down- and upregulated, respectively. Enrichment analyses of significantly upregulated proteins revealed vesicle-mediated transport, activation of GTPase activity, and ER to Golgi vesicle-mediated transport to be among the most significantly affected biological processes.
Project description:Gene expression profiles of individual bone marrow cells were acquired by Drop-Seq. Subsets of bone marrow cells were isolated using magnetic cell sorting to enrich for putative skeletal stem cells.
Project description:To gain a global understanding of the impact of TREM1 silencing, we analyzed the CD45+ tumor infiltrating cells (TICs) of B16F10 tumor-bearing Trem1+/+ and Trem1-/- mice. Utilizing the 10x Genomics Chromium Platform, we analyzed approximately 5390 cells per sample with a coverage rate of 15493 genes per cell.
Project description:Heterogeneity of lung tumor endothelial cell (TEC) phenotypes across patients, species (human/mouse) and models (in vivo/vitro) remains poorly inventoried at the single-cell-level. We single-cell RNA-sequenced 56,771 ECs from human/mouse (peri)-tumoral lung and cultured human lung TECs, detected 17 known and discovered 16 novel phenotypes, including TECs presumably regulating immune surveillance. We resolved the canonical tip TECs into a known migratory tip and a novel basement-membrane remodeling breach phenotype. Tip-TEC signatures correlated with patient-survival, and tip/breach TECs were most sensitive to VEGF-blockade. By similarity analysis, only tip-TECs were congruent across species/models and shared conserved markers. Integrated analysis of the scRNA-seq data with orthogonal multi-omics and meta-analysis data across different human tumors, validated by functional analysis, identified collagen-modification as angiogenic candidate pathway.