Lars Bolund

Endothelial cell heterogeneity and microglia regulons revealed by a pig cell landscape at single-cell level

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  • Fei Wang
  • Peiwen Ding, BGI-Shenzhen, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Xue Liang, Lars Bolund Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Copenhagen
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  • Xiangning Ding
  • Camilla Blunk Brandt
  • Evelina Sjöstedt, Karolinska Institutet
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  • Jiacheng Zhu, BGI-Shenzhen, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Saga Bolund, Karolinska Institutet
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  • Lijing Zhang, BGI-Shenzhen, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Laura P M H de Rooij, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, KU Leuven
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  • Lihua Luo, BGI-Shenzhen, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Yanan Wei, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Wandong Zhao, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Zhiyuan Lv, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • János Haskó
  • Runchu Li, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Qiuyu Qin, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Yi Jia, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Wendi Wu, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Yuting Yuan, Binzhou Medical College
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  • Mingyi Pu, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao University
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  • Haoyu Wang, BGI-Shenzhen, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Aiping Wu, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Suzhou University
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  • Lin Xie, BGI-Shenzhen
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  • Ping Liu, BGI-Shenzhen
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  • Fang Chen, BGI-Shenzhen
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  • Jacqueline Herold
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  • Joanna Kalucka
  • Max Karlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Politecnio di Milano
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  • Xiuqing Zhang, BGI-Shenzhen, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Rikke Bek Helmig
  • Linn Fagerberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Politecnio di Milano
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  • Cecilia Lindskog, Uppsala University
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  • Fredrik Pontén, Uppsala University
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  • Mathias Uhlen, Royal Institute of Technology
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  • Lars Bolund
  • Niels Jessen
  • Hui Jiang, BGI-Shenzhen
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  • Xun Xu, BGI-Shenzhen
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  • Huanming Yang, BGI-Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Peter Carmeliet
  • Jan Mulder, Karolinska Institutet
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  • Dongsheng Chen, BGI-Shenzhen, Suzhou University, Peking Union Medical College
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  • Lin Lin
  • Yonglun Luo

Pigs are valuable large animal models for biomedical and genetic research, but insights into the tissue- and cell-type-specific transcriptome and heterogeneity remain limited. By leveraging single-cell RNA sequencing, we generate a multiple-organ single-cell transcriptomic map containing over 200,000 pig cells from 20 tissues/organs. We comprehensively characterize the heterogeneity of cells in tissues and identify 234 cell clusters, representing 58 major cell types. In-depth integrative analysis of endothelial cells reveals a high degree of heterogeneity. We identify several functionally distinct endothelial cell phenotypes, including an endothelial to mesenchymal transition subtype in adipose tissues. Intercellular communication analysis predicts tissue- and cell type-specific crosstalk between endothelial cells and other cell types through the VEGF, PDGF, TGF-β, and BMP pathways. Regulon analysis of single-cell transcriptome of microglia in pig and 12 other species further identifies MEF2C as an evolutionally conserved regulon in the microglia. Our work describes the landscape of single-cell transcriptomes within diverse pig organs and identifies the heterogeneity of endothelial cells and evolutionally conserved regulon in microglia.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3620
JournalNature Communications
Volume13
ISSN2041-1723
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

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