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.
Project description:To test the mechanism by which IGF1 is cardioprotective, we performed single cell RNA sequencing on myeloid cells isolated from the heart 3 days after myocardial infarction of mice with and without IGF1 treatment. Myocardial infarction was induced in C57Bl6/J mice by 45 min occlusion of the left anterior descending artery followed by 3 days of reperfusion. Animals of the IGF1 group (n=3) received 40 ng/g mature recombinant IGF1 subcutaneously as bolus at the beginning of reperfusion. In addition, IGF1 (1 µg/g/d) was administered continuously during reperfusion using micro-osmotic pumps (Alzet, 1003D) that were implanted subcutaneously. Control mice received vehicle (0.1% BSA). After 3 days hearts were digested and CD45+CD11b+ cells were isolated using FACS cell sorting. Each sample contained cells containing 1 control and 1 IGF1 treated mouse, labeled with TotalSeq hashtags. 16000 cells were used as input for the single-cell droplet libraries generation for each sample.
Project description:Regenerative capacities are very limited in adult mammals at the benefit of scarring. Mesenchymal stroma cells (MSCs), shared by all organs and tissues, represent a key element in maintaining tissue architecture integrity and repair processes. They display high phenotypic plasticity and represent a heterogeneous population. We hypothesize that in the very early steps of tissue repair, regenerative and non-regenerative processes are associated with distinct qualitative change in MSCs heterogeneity that determine the repair final outcomes.
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:Time course analysis of treatment-induced cell dynamics and comparison to non-targetting control. Treatment conditions were sequenced at 4h and 48h while the control was sequenced at 4h only. All samples had the epithelial compartment depleted before sequencing.
Project description:Molecular characterization of tissue-resident memory T cells cultured with or without donor-matched adult stem cell-derived intestinal organoids. Blood derived immune cells were also isolated and cultivated with autologous intestinal organoids for comparison and characterization. All conditions were derived from 3 human individuals and all samples were sequenced after 24h of in vitro culture. Data provides insights on circulating and tissue-resident immune cell populations, how these differentially interact with the epithelium and how these interactions shape both immune and epithelial cell states.
Project description:The spinal cord neural stem cell potential is contained within the ependymal cells lining the central canal. This neural stem cell potential is known to decline with age in the mouse. Here, we microdissected and dissociated into single cells the central canal region from the spinal cord of 4 young adult (3-to-4-month old) and 4 aged (18-to-19-month old) C57BL/6J mice to profile the transcriptomes of cells in and around the central canal using 10x Genomics technology.
Project description:Macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (M-CSFR/CSF1R) signaling is crucial for the differentiation, proliferation, and survival of myeloid cells. Therapeutic targeting of the CSF1R pathway is a promising strategy in many human diseases, including neurological disorders or cancer. Zebrafish are commonly used for human disease modeling and preclinical therapeutic screening. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the proper function of cytokine signaling in zebrafish to reliably model human-related diseases. Here, we investigate the roles of zebrafish csf1ra and csf1rb in adult myelopoiesis using single-cell RNA sequencing. Our analysis of adult whole kidney marrow (WKM) hematopoietic cells suggests that csf1rb is expressed mainly by blood and myeloid progenitors and that the expression of csf1ra and csf1rb is non-overlapping. We point out differentially expressed genes important in hematopoietic cell differentiation and immune response in selected WKM populations. Our findings could improve the understanding of myeloid cell function and lead to the further study of CSF1R pathway deregulation in disease, mostly in cancerogenesis.