Cited by 2,413Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsImmunotherapy and Immune ResponsesT-cell and B-cell Immunology

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals new types of human blood dendritic cells, monocytes, and progenitors

Open access
Villani, Alexandra-Chloé, Satija, Rahul, Reynolds, Gary, Sarkizova, Siranush, Shekhar, Karthik, Fletcher, James, Griesbeck, Morgane, Butler, Andrew +16 more·2017·Science

Abstract

What's in a drop of blood? Blood contains many types of cells, including many immune system components. Immune cells used to be characterized by marker-based assays, but now classification relies on the genes that cells express. Villani et al. used deep sequencing at the single-cell level and unbiased clustering to define six dendritic cell and four monocyte populations. This refined analysis has identified, among others, a previously unknown dendritic cell population that potently activates T cells. Further cell culture revealed possible differentiation progenitors within the different cell populations. Science , this issue p. eaah4573

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1126/science.aah4573

Cites

76 of 76 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Myeloid subsets include CD1C DCs, CLEC9A cells, Langerhans cells, AS DCs, plasmacytoid DCs, and migrating DCs.

    “The remaining subsets were re-clustered into CD1C DCs (CD1C, CLEC10A), CLEC9A cells (CLEC9A, CADM1, XCR1), Langerhans cells (CD207, CD1A, S100B), AS DCs (AXL, IGFBP5, PPP1R14A), plasmacytoid DCs (CLEC4C, IL3RA), and migrating DCs (CCR7, CCL19) (Bronte et al., 2016, Kiss et al., 2018, Villani et al., 2017).”

    From Multimodal Analysis of Composition and Spatial Architecture in Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma (2020) · cites this paper as Villani et al., 2017

    The sections on unbiased classification and monocyte subsets identify CD1C+ DCs, CLEC9A+ DCs and plasmacytoid DCs with several of the cited markers; the AXL+SIGLEC6+ section identifies AS DCs. Our copy does not identify Langerhans cells or migrating DCs as subsets in this classification, and it does not establish IGFBP5 or PPP1R14A as AS DC markers. Page numbers are not available in the indexed passages. (LLM, conf=0.88)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Myeloid subsets include macrophages (CD163, CD68) and MDSCs (S100A8, S100A9, TREM1).

    “clusters high in the monocyte marker CD14, which were further re-clustered into macrophages (CD163, CD68) and MDSCs (S100A8, S100A9, TREM1).”

    From Multimodal Analysis of Composition and Spatial Architecture in Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma (2020) · cites this paper as Villani et al., 2017

    In “Two subpopulations within CD1C+ DCs” (page unavailable), the paper reports CD163 as a marker of a dendritic-cell subset and CD14, S100A8, and S100A9 in that subset. In “Discovering monocyte subsets” (page unavailable), it identifies CD14-positive monocytes. It does not support identifying CD163/CD68-positive clusters as macrophages or S100A8/S100A9/TREM1-positive clusters as MDSCs. (LLM, conf=0.82)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Villani, A.-C., Satija, R., Reynolds, G., Sarkizova, S., Shekhar, K., Fletcher, J., Griesbeck, M., Butler, A., Zheng, S., Lazo, S., Jardine, L., Dixon, D., Stephenson, E., Nilsson, E., Grundberg, I., McDonald, D., Filby, A., Li, W., De Jager, P. L., Rozenblatt-Rosen, O., Lane, A. A., Haniffa, M., Regev, A., & Hacohen, N.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Newcastle University (GB)
  • Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard (US)
  • New York Genome Center (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Olink (United States) (US)
  • Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Royal Victoria Infirmary (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Villani, Alexandra-Chloé
  • Satija, Rahul
  • Haniffa, Muzlifah
  • Regev, Aviv
  • Hacohen, Nir
Venue
Science
Published
2017-04-21
Volume
356
Issue
6335
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2605810679
Cited by
2,413
References
76
Citations by year
2026: 162 · 2025: 249 · 2024: 243 · 2023: 259 · 2022: 275 · 2021: 360 · 2020: 299 · 2019: 262 · 2018: 220 · 2017: 81 · 2013: 1
FWCI
96.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
Funders
  • National Human Genome Research Institute Centers of Excellence in Genomics Science (P50 HG006193)
  • Manton Foundation
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • NIH BRAIN
  • Klarman Family Foundation
  • NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2-HG-009623)
  • American Society of Hematology Scholar
  • Wellcome Trust (WT088555, WT107931/Z/15/Z)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Keywords
dendritic cells, monocytes, blood immune cells, T cell activation, dendritic cell differentiation, cell type classification, single-cell transcriptomics, gene expression signatures
MeSH terms
Adult, Classification, Dendritic Cells, Female, Humans, Lymphocyte Activation, Male, Monocytes, Neoplasms, T-Lymphocytes, Monitoring, Immunologic, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Antigen Presentation, Gene Expression Profiling, Young Adult, Single-Cell Analysis, Transcriptome

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review