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A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular signalling in human
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Cell-to-cell communication across multiple cell types and tissues strictly governs proper functioning of metazoans and extensively relies on interactions between secreted ligands and cell-surface receptors. Herein, we present the first large-scale map of cell-to-cell communication between 144 human primary cell types. We reveal that most cells express tens to hundreds of ligands and receptors to create a highly connected signalling network through multiple ligand-receptor paths. We also observe extensive autocrine signalling with approximately two-thirds of partners possibly interacting on the same cell type. We find that plasma membrane and secreted proteins have the highest cell-type specificity, they are evolutionarily younger than intracellular proteins, and that most receptors had evolved before their ligands. We provide an online tool to interactively query and visualize our networks and demonstrate how this tool can reveal novel cell-to-cell interactions with the prediction that mast cells signal to monoblastic lineages via the CSF1-CSF1R interacting pair.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ramilowski, J. A., Goldberg, T., Harshbarger, J., Kloppmann, E., Lizio, M., Satagopam, V. P., Itoh, M., Kawaji, H., Carninci, P., Rost, B., & Forrest, A. R. R.
- Affiliations
- RIKEN (JP)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LU)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Ramilowski, Jordan A.
- Forrest, Alistair R. R.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2015-07-22
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7866-7866
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4525178
- OpenAlex
- W1016059894
- Cited by
- 887
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 120 · 2022: 132 · 2021: 154 · 2020: 122 · 2019: 67 · 2018: 37 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 8.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2016-02-10)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Conquer Cancer Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- National Institutes of Health (GM095315)
- RIKEN
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54GM095315)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Keywords
- cell-to-cell communication, ligand-receptor interactions, autocrine signaling, secreted proteins, plasma membrane proteins, protein evolution, mast cells, network visualization tools
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cell Communication, Humans, Ligands, Receptors, Cell Surface, Software, Evolution, Molecular
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