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Cell type atlas and lineage tree of a whole complex animal by single-cell transcriptomics

Plass, Mireya, Solana, Jordi, Wolf, F. Alexander, Ayoub, Salah, Misios, Aristotelis, Glažar, Petar, Obermayer, Benedikt, Theis, Fabian J. +2 more·2018·Science

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Mapping the planarian transcriptome: A cell type's transcriptome defines the active genes that control its biology. Two groups used single-cell RNA sequencing to define the transcriptomes for essentially all cell types of a complete animal, the regenerative planarian Schmidtea mediterranea.Because pluripotent stem cells constantly differentiate to rejuvenate any part of the body of this species, all developmental lineages are active in adult animals. Fincher et al.determined the transcriptomes for most, if not all, planarian cell types, including some that were previously unknown. They also identified transition states and genes governing positional information. Plass et al.used single-cell transcriptomics and computational algorithms to reconstruct a lineage tree capturing the developmental progressions from stem to differentiated cells. They could then predict gene programs that are specifically turned on and off along the tree, and they used this approach to study how the cell types behaved during regeneration. These whole-animal transcriptome “atlases” are a powerful way to study metazoan biology. Science, this issue p.eaaq1736, p.eaaq1723

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  • The validation cohort consisted of 141,267 single cells spanning 266 phenotypes, nine biological systems, five species, and nine scRNA-seq platforms.

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Authors
Plass, M., Solana, J., Wolf, F. A., Ayoub, S., Misios, A., Glažar, P., Obermayer, B., Theis, F. J., Kocks, C., & Rajewsky, N.
Affiliations
  • Max Delbrück Center (DE)
  • Helmholtz Munich (DE)
Corresponding author
Rajewsky, Nikolaus
Venue
Science
Published
2018-05-25
Volume
360
Issue
6391
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2801443765
Cited by
474
References
79
Citations by year
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FWCI
20.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • MDC Repository (Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine) (submittedVersion)
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  • PuSH - Publication Server of Helmholtz Zentrum München (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung (DZHK BER 1.2 VD)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG RA 838/5-1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Keywords
Schmidtea mediterranea, Tricladida, cell type atlas, cell lineage trees, single-cell transcriptomics, pluripotent stem cells, regeneration, positional information
MeSH terms
Animals, Atlases as Topic, Cell Differentiation, Cells, Planarians, Regeneration, Cell Lineage, Gene Expression Profiling, Pluripotent Stem Cells, Single-Cell Analysis, Transcriptome

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