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Integrated spatial multiomics reveals fibroblast fate during tissue repair.

ABSTRACT: In the skin, tissue injury results in fibrosis in the form of scars composed of dense extracellular matrix deposited by fibroblasts. The therapeutic goal of regenerative wound healing has remained elusive, in part because principles of fibroblast programming and adaptive response to injury remain incompletely understood. Here, we present a multimodal -omics platform for the comprehensive study of cell populations in complex tissue, which has allowed us to characterize the cells involved in wound healing across both time and space. We employ a stented wound model that recapitulates human tissue repair kinetics and multiple Rainbow transgenic lines to precisely track fibroblast fate during the physiologic response to skin injury. Through integrated analysis of single cell chromatin landscapes and gene expression states, coupled with spatial transcriptomic profiling, we are able to impute fibroblast epigenomes with temporospatial resolution. This has allowed us to reveal potential mechanisms controlling fibroblast fate during migration, proliferation, and differentiation following skin injury, and thereby reexamine the canonical phases of wound healing. These findings have broad implications for the study of tissue repair in complex organ systems.

SUBMITTER: Foster DS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8521719 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Integrated spatial multiomics reveals fibroblast fate during tissue repair.

Foster Deshka S DS Januszyk Michael M Yost Kathryn E KE Chinta Malini S MS Gulati Gunsagar S GS Nguyen Alan T AT Burcham Austin R AR Salhotra Ankit A Ransom R Chase RC Henn Dominic D Chen Kellen K Mascharak Shamik S Tolentino Karen K Titan Ashley L AL Jones R Ellen RE da Silva Oscar O Leavitt W Tripp WT Marshall Clement D CD des Jardins-Park Heather E HE Hu Michael S MS Wan Derrick C DC Wernig Gerlinde G Wagh Dhananjay D Coller John J Norton Jeffrey A JA Gurtner Geoffrey C GC Newman Aaron M AM Chang Howard Y HY Longaker Michael T MT

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20211001 41

In the skin, tissue injury results in fibrosis in the form of scars composed of dense extracellular matrix deposited by fibroblasts. The therapeutic goal of regenerative wound healing has remained elusive, in part because principles of fibroblast programming and adaptive response to injury remain incompletely understood. Here, we present a multimodal -omics platform for the comprehensive study of cell populations in complex tissue, which has allowed us to characterize the cells involved in wound ...[more]

PMID: 34620713

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