Project description:An indepth analysis of Paneth cell transcriptome at single cell level has not been available. Existing intestinal epithelial cell scRNA dataset contain many cell types, where Paneth cells represent a small portion. We used a flow cytometry based approach to enrich and isolate relatively pure Panethc cells from a newly developed Paneth cell reporter mouse line (Lyz1-3'UTR-IRES-CreER; Rosa26R-tdTomato). Single cell RNA sequencing was performed on purified duodenal and ileal Paneth cells of mice housed under specific pathogen free condition.
Project description:The single cell level Paneth cell transcriptome under gnotobiotic condition has not been resolved. How gut microbiome modulates Paneth cell transcriptome at single cell level in germ-free mice was not known. We used a flow cytometry method to isolate highly pure ileal Paneth cells from germ free (GF) Paneth cell reporter mice (Lyz1-3'UTR-IRES-CreER) and from exGF Paneth cell reporter mice that were transplanted with wild type C57B/l6 mouse gut microbiota (exGF+B6M). These isolated Paneth cells were subjected to single cell RNA sequencing by 10xGenomics.
Project description:Paneth cells express Lyz1, a gene encoding for lysozyme. To investigate the transcriptomic profiles of wild type and Lyz1-knockout mouse ileal lamina propria cells, we performed single-cell RNA-seq.
Project description:To determine the potential molecular mechanisms by which STAT5 signaling control ileal Paneth cell homeostasis, we isolated total RNA from ileal intact crypts of STAT5+/+, STAT5DIEC-/- and STAT5DIEC+++ mice and performed RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). With an average of 22.3 million reads per sample, we observed 27540 transcripts when reads were aligned to the mm10 genome with annotations provided by Ensembl. Transcripts were filtered, requiring at least 3 reads in 50% of samples within at least one condition, leaving 10197 transcripts for analysis. To identify differentially-regulated transcripts, we performed ANOVA (FDR-corrected p<0.05) and required the fold change to exceed 1.5.
Project description:Refractory Celiac Disease type II (RCDII) is a rare lymphoma in the small intestine characterized by a clonally expanded intra-epithelial iCD3+sCD3-CD7+CD56- aberrant cell population. However, RCDII pathogenesis is ill-defined. Here, we aimed at single-cell characterization of the innate and adaptive immune system in RCDII. Paired small intestinal and blood samples from 12 RCDII patients and 6 healthy controls were assessed by single-cell mass cytometry with a 39 cell surface marker antibody panel, designed to capture heterogeneity of the innate and adaptive immune system. A second single-cell mass cytometry panel which included transcription factors and immune checkpoints was used for analysis of paired samples from 5 RCDII patients. Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis was performed on duodenal samples from 2 RCDII patients. Finally, we developed a 40-marker imaging mass cytometry antibody panel to evaluate cell-cell interactions in duodenal biopsies of RCDII patients. We provide evidence for inter- and intra-tumoral cell heterogeneity within the duodenal and peripheral aberrant cell population present in RCDII. We observed that part of the aberrant cell population proliferated and observed co-localization of aberrant cells with CD163+ APCs in situ. Additionally, we observed phenotypic discrepancy between peripheral and duodenal aberrant cells. Novel high-dimensional technologies reveal substantial inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity in the aberrant cell population in RCDII. This may underlie variability in refractory disease status between patients and responsiveness to therapy, pointing to the need for personalized therapy in RCDII based on patient-specific immune profiles.
Project description:Paneth cells consist of heterogeous phenotypes. How Paneth cells respond to infection by invasive pathogenic bacteria at single cell level remains uncharacterized. We used a flow cytometry based method to isolate Paneth cells from uninfected and Salmonella-infected Paneth cell reporter mice (Lyz1-3'UTR-IRES-CreER; Rosa26R-tdTomato). These highly pure Paneth cell populations were used for single cell RNA sequencing analysis.
Project description:We used single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize the heterogeneity duodenal tissue in healthy and chronic inflammatory enteropathy (CIE) affected dogs.
Project description:Crohn’s disease arises through host-environment interaction, with abnormal gene expression resulting from disturbed pathway activation or response to bacteria. Single cell RNA-sequencing of ileal tissue from 2 paediatric Crohn’s disease patients was performed, identifying populations of CD8+ effector memory T cells (CD8+ Tem), memory B-cells, monocytes, epithelial cells and plasma cells within the ileal tissue. Specialised epithelial cells driving differential expression of S100A8 and S100A9 and associated with defence to bacterium were identified, as well as IL17-signalling associated pathways in monocyte and epithelial cell populations.