Project description:Study of the emergence of the rare 2C like cell population upon Retinoic Acid treatment. Transcriptionally characterise the different cell populations emerging at different timepoints upon Retinoic Acid treatment and identify genes driving cell fate decisions.
Project description:CIARA (Cluster Independent Algorithm for the identification of RAre cell types) is tested on mouse embryonic stem cell treated for 24h with Retinoic Acid.
Project description:Hematopoiesis in embryonic and adult life is the process of producing blood cells. In mammalian embryos, hematopoiesis occurs in three consecutive overlapping waves (Neo et al. 2021; Dzierzak and Bigas 2018) and is regulated by transcription factors (TFs) and signaling molecules. In this study, we investigated the function of three relatively poorly studied TFs in early embryonic hematopoietic development at single-cell resolution: Activating transcription factor 3 (Atf3), Zinc finger protein 711 (Zfp711), and B cell CLL/lymphoma 6, member B (Bcl6b) respectively. We observed that these three TFs are upregulated early in development when hematopoietic and endothelial lineages separate from cardiac and other mesodermal lineages. To study the roles of these TFs in a rapidly changing system with diverse cell types and small cell populations during early developmental stages, we employed multiplexed single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of TF knockouts (KO) of in vitro differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) and also capturing changes with Flow Cytometric Analysis (FCA). This approach offered a valuable method to dissect the functions of these TFs in lineage induction, specification, and separation, providing access to sufficient numbers of various progenitor cells. We adapted available multiplexing technology for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) -multiplexing knockouts (KO) and Control conditions with biological replicates-, accompanied by Flow Cytometric Analysis (FCA) to study the role of three TFs in early embryonic hematopoietic development. Using this adaptation, the depth and coverage of this study can be placed between large-scale multiplexed CRISPR-based perturbation studies covering multiple candidate genes together (Datlinger et al. 2017; Jaitin et al. 2016; Dixit et al. 2016; Adamson et al. 2016) and single gene perturbation studies, which focus on the in-depth function/role of a particular gene with multiple experimental procedures (Harland et al. 2021). With adapted methodology, we studied the role of the three TF genes at once in a cost-efficient manner in one experiment by including three biological replicates to minimize false positive results, to capture a sufficient number of cells to detect changes in low abundance cell types, to minimize the creation of potential batch effects (e.g., each replicates creates a separate library) and prevent the loss of biological information during computational integration steps by skipping computational integration step. Following the scRNA-seq analysis, our findings are compared with publicly available datasets to categorize our findings. This categorized information can be used as a launching pad for future in-depth follow-up studies investigating the roles of these three TFs in hematoendothelial development.
Project description:This dataset contains additional data performed as in the experiment stored at accession E-MTAB-7324. Chimeric mouse embryos were generated as a control experiment to understand the contribution of host vs. injected cells to the developing embryo. Embryos were generated by blastocyst injection of tdTomato-labelled mouse embryonic stem cells into wild type embryos. After blastocyst harvest, cells were flow-sorted before 10X Genomics library preparation and single-cell RNA-sequencing.
Project description:Chimeric mouse embryos were generated as a control experiment to understand the contribution of host vs. injected cells to the developing embryo. Embryos were generated by blastocyst injection of tdTomato-labelled mouse embryonic stem cells into wild type embryos. After blastocyst harvest, cells were flow-sorted before 10X Genomics library preparation and single-cell RNA-sequencing.
Project description:LV-EF1A-H2B-tdTomato-30N barcode virus was injected into the amniotic cavity (AC) of embryos at E7.5, using ultrasound guided in-utero nano-injections. E9.5 and E10.5 whole embryos were collected, dissociated, and sorted for tdTomato. Sorted cells were subjected to single cell RNA sequenced using 10X Genomics sequencing.