一个单细胞分辨率的小鼠肠内皮的新兴景观
Sonja Nowotschin1, Manu Setty2, Ying-Yi Kuo1
1Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Nature
|April 9, 2019
概括
这项研究使用单细胞转录组绘制了哺乳动物内皮的发育图,揭示了表皮细胞在两个关键时刻如何形成内皮以及这些细胞如何塑造早期肠道管.
科学领域:
- 发育生物学
- 基因组学
- 细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 哺乳动物内皮的早期发育对于器官生成至关重要.
- 了解内皮本体发生需要详细地绘制细胞分化和血统轨迹.
研究的目的:
- 描述哺乳动物内皮从早期发育到怀孕中期的形成过程.
- 描述内皮发育的时空动态和转录结构.
- 在发育过程中发现表皮细胞和内皮细胞系之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 从小鼠胚胎中生成和分析112,217个单细胞转录组.
- 应用基于图形的方法来模型细胞分化和发育轨迹.
- 对内皮细胞命运和肠道管模式的时空映射.
主要成果:
- 定义了所有内皮种群的转录景观,直到怀孕中期.
- 确定了表皮细胞到内皮细胞分化的两个不同的时间点 (胃化前和胃化期间).
- 在肠道管中汇聚的内皮细胞中发现了保存的,但特定的特征.
- 在前后轴上观察到区域化的细胞特征和协调的器官特异性模式.
结论:
- 哺乳动物内皮发育的特点是不同的分化波和血统贡献.
- 出现的肠道管表现出反映胚胎/非胚胎起源和血统历史的空间图案.
- 这项研究提供了早期内皮发育和肠管形成的全面转录图谱.
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