Single cell RNA sequencing-based comparison of mouse splenic pDC, pDC-like cells, tDC, cDC1 and cDC2 at steady state and during a viral infection
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ABSTRACT: Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) are the main source of type I interferon (IFN) during viral infections. Their other functions are debated, due to a lack of tools to identify and target them in vivo without affecting pDC-like cells and transitional DC (tDC), which harbor overlapping phenotypes and transcriptomes but a higher efficacy for T cell activation. To overcome this bottleneck, we designed, generated and validated a pDC-Tomato reporter mouse. We bred pDC-Tomato with Zbtb46 GFP mice to yield the he ZeST mouse strain that enabled transcriptomic profiling of all splenic DC types, by single cell RNA sequencing, both at steady state and during the course of the infection with mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV). Analyses of the transcriptomic dataset unraveled diverging activation of pDC-like cells vs tDC during the infection. This dataset and the associated specific gene modules will be useful to delineate the physiological functions of pDC versus other DC types.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE196720 | GEO | 2023/01/26
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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