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Densely Interconnected Transcriptional Circuits Control Cell States in Human Hematopoiesis

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Novershtern, Noa, Subramanian, Aravind, Lawton, Lee N., Mak, Raymond H., Haining, W. Nicholas, McConkey, Marie E., Habib, Naomi, Yosef, Nir +17 more·2011·Cell

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Though many individual transcription factors are known to regulate hematopoietic differentiation, major aspects of the global architecture of hematopoiesis remain unknown. Here, we profiled gene expression in 38 distinct purified populations of human hematopoietic cells and used probabilistic models of gene expression and analysis of cis-elements in gene promoters to decipher the general organization of their regulatory circuitry. We identified modules of highly coexpressed genes, some of which are restricted to a single lineage but most of which are expressed at variable levels across multiple lineages. We found densely interconnected cis-regulatory circuits and a large number of transcription factors that are differentially expressed across hematopoietic states. These findings suggest a more complex regulatory system for hematopoiesis than previously assumed.

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  • Myeloid clusters were identified by checking canonical myeloid marker gene expression and by automated annotation with SingleR based on the Novershtern immune reference dataset.

    “To identify myeloid clusters, we checked the expression of canonical myeloid marker genes (Supplementary Data 3). Furthermore, we used SingleR v2.0.074 for automated annotation based on the Novershtern immune reference dataset75 from the celldex v1.8.0 package74.”
  • Because cells are unsynchronized, single cells captured at any time point stochastically include cells at different instantaneous points along a temporal trajectory.

    “Since cells are unsynchronized, the set of single cells captured at any time point will stochastically contain cells positioned in different instantaneous time points along the temporal trajectory59,135,136 (Fig. 1b).”
  • Several studies have analyzed the covariation structure between transcripts or proteins across single cells to infer regulatory relations.

    “Leveraging this insight, several studies have analyzed the covariation structure between transcripts or proteins across single cells to infer regulatory relations1–3,41,135,137,168–172.”
  • Similar approaches have been used in other biological settings, and enhanced resolution, for example from pseudotemporal ordering, has helped recover such dependencies.

    “Similar approaches have been used in other biological settings1, and enhanced resolution, for example from pseudotemporal ordering, has helped recover such dependencies135,137.”
  • Most prior mammalian regulatory circuit reconstruction studies assumed a single fixed network.

    “Most of these studies have relied upon computational circuit-reconstruction algorithms that assume one ‘fixed’ network.”

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Novershtern, N., Subramanian, A., Lawton, L. N., Mak, R. H., Haining, W. N., McConkey, M. E., Habib, N., Yosef, N., Chang, C. Y., Shay, T., Frampton, G. M., Drake, A. C. B., Leskov, I., Nilsson, B., Preffer, F., Dombkowski, D., Evans, J. W., Liefeld, T., Smutko, J. S., Chen, J., Friedman, N., Young, R. A., Golub, T. R., Regev, A., & Ebert, B. L.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
  • Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research At MIT (US)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
  • Regev, Aviv
  • Ebert, Benjamin L.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-01
Volume
144
Issue
2
Pages
296-309
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2150892663
Cited by
942
References
94
Citations by year
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FWCI
29.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
  • Elsevier eBooks
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust
  • National Institutes of Health (DP1OD003958)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL082945)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG002668)
  • National Cancer Institute (RC1CA145229, P01CA108631, P01CA066996)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007753)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Keywords
hematopoiesis, transcriptional circuits, cis-regulatory elements, gene regulatory networks, hematopoietic lineage, transcription factors, gene co-expression modules, promoter analysis, cell states
MeSH terms
Gene Expression Regulation, Hematopoiesis, Humans, Transcription Factors, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Regulatory Networks

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