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Nat Methods ; 2024 Mar 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38532015

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Cell segmentation is a critical step for quantitative single-cell analysis in microscopy images. Existing cell segmentation methods are often tailored to specific modalities or require manual interventions to specify hyper-parameters in different experimental settings. Here, we present a multimodality cell segmentation benchmark, comprising more than 1,500 labeled images derived from more than 50 diverse biological experiments. The top participants developed a Transformer-based deep-learning algorithm that not only exceeds existing methods but can also be applied to diverse microscopy images across imaging platforms and tissue types without manual parameter adjustments. This benchmark and the improved algorithm offer promising avenues for more accurate and versatile cell analysis in microscopy imaging.

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Res Sq ; 2024 Feb 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38405837

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Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) arises when a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) acquires a mutation that confers a competitive advantage over wild-type (WT) HSCs, resulting in its clonal expansion. Individuals with CH are at an increased risk of developing hematologic neoplasms and a range of age-related inflammatory illnesses1-3. Therapeutic interventions that suppress the expansion of mutant HSCs have the potential to prevent these CH-related illnesses; however, such interventions have not yet been identified. The most common CH driver mutations are in the DNA methyltransferase 3 alpha (DNMT3A) gene with arginine 882 (R882) being a mutation hotspot. Here we show that murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) carrying the Dnmt3aR878H/+ mutation, which is equivalent to human DNMT3AR882H/+, have increased mitochondrial respiration compared with WT cells and are dependent on this metabolic reprogramming for their competitive advantage. Importantly, treatment with metformin, an oral anti-diabetic drug with inhibitory activity against complex I in the electron transport chain (ETC), reduced the fitness of Dnmt3aR878H/+ HSCs. Through a multi-omics approach, we discovered that metformin acts by enhancing the methylation potential in Dnmt3aR878H/+ HSPCs and reversing their aberrant DNA CpG methylation and histone H3K27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) profiles. Metformin also reduced the fitness of human DNMT3AR882H HSPCs generated by prime editing. Our findings provide preclinical rationale for investigating metformin as a preventive intervention against illnesses associated with DNMT3AR882 mutation-driven CH in humans.

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BMC Cancer ; 24(1): 199, 2024 Feb 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38347462

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BACKGROUND: Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive brain tumor that exhibits resistance to current treatment, making the identification of novel therapeutic targets essential. In this context, cellular prion protein (PrPC) stands out as a potential candidate for new therapies. Encoded by the PRNP gene, PrPC can present increased expression levels in GBM, impacting cell proliferation, growth, migration, invasion and stemness. Nevertheless, the exact molecular mechanisms through which PRNP/PrPC modulates key aspects of GBM biology remain elusive. METHODS: To elucidate the implications of PRNP/PrPC in the biology of this cancer, we analyzed publicly available RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data of patient-derived GBMs from four independent studies. First, we ranked samples profiled by bulk RNA-seq as PRNPhigh and PRNPlow and compared their transcriptomic landscape. Then, we analyzed PRNP+ and PRNP- GBM cells profiled by single-cell RNA-seq to further understand the molecular context within which PRNP/PrPC might function in this tumor. We explored an additional proteomics dataset, applying similar comparative approaches, to corroborate our findings. RESULTS: Functional profiling revealed that vesicular dynamics signatures are strongly correlated with PRNP/PrPC levels in GBM. We found a panel of 73 genes, enriched in vesicle-related pathways, whose expression levels are increased in PRNPhigh/PRNP+ cells across all RNA-seq datasets. Vesicle-associated genes, ANXA1, RAB31, DSTN and SYPL1, were found to be upregulated in vitro in an in-house collection of patient-derived GBM. Moreover, proteome analysis of patient-derived samples reinforces the findings of enhanced vesicle biogenesis, processing and trafficking in PRNPhigh/PRNP+ GBM cells. CONCLUSIONS: Together, our findings shed light on a novel role for PrPC as a potential modulator of vesicle biology in GBM, which is pivotal for intercellular communication and cancer maintenance. We also introduce GBMdiscovery, a novel user-friendly tool that allows the investigation of specific genes in GBM biology.


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Glioblastoma , Príons , Humanos , Expressão Gênica , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Glioblastoma/genética , Glioblastoma/patologia , Proteínas Priônicas/genética , Proteínas Priônicas/metabolismo , Príons/genética , Príons/metabolismo , Proteínas rab de Ligação ao GTP/genética , Sinaptofisina/metabolismo
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J Hepatol ; 80(5): 730-743, 2024 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38199298

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an immune-mediated cholestatic liver disease for which there is an unmet need to understand the cellular composition of the affected liver and how it underlies disease pathogenesis. We aimed to generate a comprehensive atlas of the PSC liver using multi-omic modalities and protein-based functional validation. METHODS: We employed single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (47,156 cells and 23,000 nuclei) and spatial transcriptomics (one sample by 10x Visium and five samples with Nanostring GeoMx DSP) to profile the cellular ecosystem in 10 PSC livers. Transcriptomic profiles were compared to 24 neurologically deceased donor livers (107,542 cells) and spatial transcriptomics controls, as well as 18,240 cells and 20,202 nuclei from three PBC livers. Flow cytometry was performed to validate PSC-specific differences in immune cell phenotype and function. RESULTS: PSC explants with parenchymal cirrhosis and prominent periductal fibrosis contained a population of cholangiocyte-like hepatocytes that were surrounded by diverse immune cell populations. PSC-associated biliary, mesenchymal, and endothelial populations expressed chemokine and cytokine transcripts involved in immune cell recruitment. Additionally, expanded CD4+ T cells and recruited myeloid populations in the PSC liver expressed the corresponding receptors to these chemokines and cytokines, suggesting potential recruitment. Tissue-resident macrophages, by contrast, were reduced in number and exhibited a dysfunctional and downregulated inflammatory response to lipopolysaccharide and interferon-γ stimulation. CONCLUSIONS: We present a comprehensive atlas of the PSC liver and demonstrate an exhaustion-like phenotype of myeloid cells and markers of chronic cytokine expression in late-stage PSC lesions. This atlas expands our understanding of the cellular complexity of PSC and has potential to guide the development of novel treatments. IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare liver disease characterized by chronic inflammation and irreparable damage to the bile ducts, which eventually results in liver failure. Due to a limited understanding of the underlying pathogenesis of disease, treatment options are limited. To address this, we sequenced healthy and diseased livers to compare the activity, interactions, and localization of immune and non-immune cells. This revealed that hepatocytes lining PSC scar regions co-express cholangiocyte markers, whereas immune cells infiltrate the scar lesions. Of these cells, macrophages, which typically contribute to tissue repair, were enriched in immunoregulatory genes and demonstrated a lack of responsiveness to stimulation. These cells may be involved in maintaining hepatic inflammation and could be a target for novel therapies.


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Colangite Esclerosante , Humanos , Cicatriz/metabolismo , Cicatriz/patologia , Ecossistema , Fígado/patologia , Cirrose Hepática/patologia , Citocinas/metabolismo , Inflamação/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica
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Bioinform Adv ; 3(1): vbad166, 2023.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38099262

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Motivation: Predictive computational models must be accurate, robust, and interpretable to be considered reliable in important areas such as biology and medicine. A sufficiently robust model should not have its output affected significantly by a slight change in the input. Also, these models should be able to explain how a decision is made to support user trust in the results. Efforts have been made to improve the robustness and interpretability of predictive computational models independently; however, the interaction of robustness and interpretability is poorly understood. Results: As an example task, we explore the computational prediction of cell type based on single-cell RNA-seq data and show that it can be made more robust by adversarially training a deep learning model. Surprisingly, we find this also leads to improved model interpretability, as measured by identifying genes important for classification using a range of standard interpretability methods. Our results suggest that adversarial training may be generally useful to improve deep learning robustness and interpretability and that it should be evaluated on a range of tasks. Availability and implementation: Our Python implementation of all analysis in this publication can be found at: https://github.com/MehrshadSD/robustness-interpretability. The analysis was conducted using numPy 0.2.5, pandas 2.0.3, scanpy 1.9.3, tensorflow 2.10.0, matplotlib 3.7.1, seaborn 0.12.2, sklearn 1.1.1, shap 0.42.0, lime 0.2.0.1, matplotlib_venn 0.11.9.

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iScience ; 26(11): 108213, 2023 Nov 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38026201

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The large size and vascular accessibility of the laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) make it an ideal hepatic animal model for diseases that require surgical manipulation. Often, the disease susceptibility and outcomes of inflammatory pathologies vary significantly between strains. This study uses single-cell transcriptomics to better understand the complex cellular network of the rat liver, as well as to unravel the cellular and molecular sources of inter-strain hepatic variation. We generated single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomic maps of the livers of healthy Dark Agouti and Lewis rat strains and developed a factor analysis-based bioinformatics analysis pipeline to study data covariates, such as strain and batch. Using this approach, we discovered transcriptomic variation within the hepatocyte and myeloid populations that underlie distinct cell states between rat strains. This finding will help provide a reference for future investigations on strain-dependent outcomes of surgical experiment models.

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Stem Cells Dev ; 32(19-20): 606-621, 2023 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37551982

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The mature brain contains an incredible number and diversity of cells that are produced and maintained by heterogeneous pools of neural stem cells (NSCs). Two distinct types of NSCs exist in the developing and adult mouse brain: Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP)-negative primitive (p)NSCs and downstream GFAP-positive definitive (d)NSCs. To better understand the embryonic functions of NSCs, we performed clonal lineage tracing within neurospheres grown from either pNSCs or dNSCs to enrich for their most immediate downstream neural progenitor cells (NPCs). These clonal progenitor lineage tracing data allowed us to construct a hierarchy of progenitor subtypes downstream of pNSCs and dNSCs that were then validated using single-cell transcriptomics. Further, we identify Nexn as required for neuronal specification from neuron/astrocyte progenitor cells downstream of rare pNSCs. Combined, these data provide single-cell resolution of NPC lineages downstream of rare pNSCs that likely would be missed from population-level analyses in vivo.


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Células-Tronco Neurais , Camundongos , Animais , Proteína Glial Fibrilar Ácida/genética , Proteína Glial Fibrilar Ácida/metabolismo , Células-Tronco Neurais/metabolismo , Neurônios/metabolismo , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Astrócitos/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular/genética
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Nat Commun ; 14(1): 4313, 2023 07 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37463901

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Metastatic breast-cancer is a major cause of death in women worldwide, yet the relationship between oncogenic drivers that promote metastatic versus primary cancer is still contentious. To elucidate this relationship in treatment-naive animals, we hereby describe mammary-specific transposon-mutagenesis screens in female mice together with loss-of-function Rb, which is frequently inactivated in breast-cancer. We report gene-centric common insertion-sites (gCIS) that are enriched in primary-tumors, in metastases or shared by both compartments. Shared-gCIS comprise a major MET-RAS network, whereas metastasis-gCIS form three additional hubs: Rho-signaling, Ubiquitination and RNA-processing. Pathway analysis of four clinical cohorts with paired primary-tumors and metastases reveals similar organization in human breast-cancer with subtype-specific shared-drivers (e.g. RB1-loss, TP53-loss, high MET, RAS, ER), primary-enriched (EGFR, TGFß and STAT3) and metastasis-enriched (RHO, PI3K) oncogenic signaling. Inhibitors of RB1-deficiency or MET plus RHO-signaling cooperate to block cell migration and drive tumor cell-death. Thus, targeting shared- and metastasis- but not primary-enriched derivers offers a rational avenue to prevent metastatic breast-cancer.


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Neoplasias da Mama , Feminino , Humanos , Animais , Camundongos , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Transdução de Sinais , Metástase Neoplásica
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bioRxiv ; 2023 Jul 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37503083

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In solid tissues homeostasis and regeneration after injury involve a complex interplay between many different cell types. The mammalian liver harbors numerous epithelial and non-epithelial cells and little is known about the global signaling networks that govern their interactions. To better understand the hepatic cell network, we isolated and purified 10 different cell populations from normal and regenerative mouse livers. Their transcriptomes were analyzed by bulk RNA-seq and a computational platform was used to analyze the cell-cell and ligand-receptor interactions among the 10 populations. Over 50,000 potential cell-cell interactions were found in both the ground state and after partial hepatectomy. Importantly, about half of these differed between the two states, indicating massive changes in the cell network during regeneration. Our study provides the first comprehensive database of potential cell-cell interactions in mammalian liver cell homeostasis and regeneration. With the help of this prediction model, we identified and validated two previously unknown signaling interactions involved in accelerating and delaying liver regeneration. Overall, we provide a novel platform for investigating autocrine/paracrine pathways in tissue regeneration, which can be adapted to other complex multicellular systems.

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ArXiv ; 2023 Jul 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37332567

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In recent decades, the development of new drugs has become increasingly expensive and inefficient, and the molecular mechanisms of most pharmaceuticals remain poorly understood. In response, computational systems and network medicine tools have emerged to identify potential drug repurposing candidates. However, these tools often require complex installation and lack intuitive visual network mining capabilities. To tackle these challenges, we introduce Drugst.One, a platform that assists specialized computational medicine tools in becoming user-friendly, web-based utilities for drug repurposing. With just three lines of code, Drugst.One turns any systems biology software into an interactive web tool for modeling and analyzing complex protein-drug-disease networks. Demonstrating its broad adaptability, Drugst.One has been successfully integrated with 21 computational systems medicine tools. Available at https://drugst.one, Drugst.One has significant potential for streamlining the drug discovery process, allowing researchers to focus on essential aspects of pharmaceutical treatment research.

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Nat Commun ; 14(1): 2696, 2023 05 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37164978

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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) is a highly aggressive sarcoma, and a lethal neurofibromatosis type 1-related malignancy, with little progress made on treatment strategies. Here, we apply a multiplatform integrated molecular analysis on 108 tumors spanning the spectrum of peripheral nerve sheath tumors to identify candidate drivers of MPNST that can serve as therapeutic targets. Unsupervised analyses of methylome and transcriptome profiles identify two distinct subgroups of MPNSTs with unique targetable oncogenic programs. We establish two subgroups of MPNSTs: SHH pathway activation in MPNST-G1 and WNT/ß-catenin/CCND1 pathway activation in MPNST-G2. Single nuclei RNA sequencing characterizes the complex cellular architecture and demonstrate that malignant cells from MPNST-G1 and MPNST-G2 have neural crest-like and Schwann cell precursor-like cell characteristics, respectively. Further, in pre-clinical models of MPNST we confirm that inhibiting SHH pathway in MPNST-G1 prevent growth and malignant progression, providing the rational for investigating these treatments in clinical trials.


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Neoplasias de Bainha Neural , Neurofibromatose 1 , Neurofibrossarcoma , Humanos , Neurofibrossarcoma/genética , Neurofibrossarcoma/metabolismo , Neoplasias de Bainha Neural/genética , Neoplasias de Bainha Neural/metabolismo , Neoplasias de Bainha Neural/patologia , Neurofibromatose 1/genética , Células de Schwann/metabolismo , Via de Sinalização Wnt/genética
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Cereb Cortex ; 33(13): 8581-8593, 2023 06 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37106565

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An open challenge in human genetics is to better understand the systems-level impact of genotype variation on developmental cognition. To characterize the genetic underpinnings of peri-adolescent cognition, we performed genotype-phenotype and systems analysis for binarized accuracy in nine cognitive tasks from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (~2,200 individuals of European continental ancestry aged 8-21 years). We report a region of genome-wide significance within the 3' end of the Fibulin-1 gene (P = 4.6 × 10-8), associated with accuracy in nonverbal reasoning, a heritable form of complex reasoning ability. Diffusion tensor imaging data from a subset of these participants identified a significant association of white matter fractional anisotropy with FBLN1 genotypes (P < 0.025); poor performers show an increase in the C and A allele for rs77601382 and rs5765534, respectively, which is associated with increased fractional anisotropy. Integration of published human brain-specific 'omic maps, including single-cell transcriptomes of the developing human brain, shows that FBLN1 demonstrates greatest expression in the fetal brain, as a marker of intermediate progenitor cells, demonstrates negligible expression in the adolescent and adult human brain, and demonstrates increased expression in the brain in schizophrenia. Collectively these findings warrant further study of this gene and genetic locus in cognition, neurodevelopment, and disease. Separately, genotype-pathway analysis identified an enrichment of variants associated with working memory accuracy in pathways related to development and to autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Top-ranking pathway genes include those genetically associated with diseases with working memory deficits, such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. This work advances the "molecules-to-behavior" view of cognition and provides a framework for using systems-level organization of data for other biomedical domains.


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Imagem de Tensor de Difusão , Substância Branca , Adulto , Humanos , Adolescente , Cognição/fisiologia , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Genômica
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Anal Chem ; 95(14): 5877-5885, 2023 04 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37000033

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Designing diagnostic assays to genotype rapidly mutating viruses remains a challenge despite the overall improvements in nucleic acid detection technologies. RT-PCR and next-generation sequencing are unsuitable for genotyping during outbreaks or in point-of-care detection due to their infrastructure requirements and longer turnaround times. We developed a quantum dot barcode multiplexing system to genotype mutated viruses. We designed multiple quantum dot barcodes to target conserved, wildtype, and mutated regions of SARS-CoV-2. We calculated ratios of the signal output from different barcodes that enabled SARS-CoV-2 detection and identified SARS-CoV-2 variant strains from a sample. We detected different sequence types, including conserved genes, nucleotide deletions, and single nucleotide substitutions. Our system detected SARS-CoV-2 patient specimens with 98% sensitivity and 94% specificity across 91 patient samples. Further, we leveraged our barcoding and ratio system to track the emergence of the N501Y SARS-CoV-2 mutation from December 2020 to May 2021 and demonstrated that the more transmissible N501Y mutation started to dominate infections by April 2021. Our barcoding and signal ratio approach can genotype viruses and track the emergence of viral mutations in a single diagnostic test. This technology can be extended to tracking other viruses. Combined with smartphone detection technologies, this assay can be adapted for point-of-care tracking of viral mutations in real time.


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COVID-19 , Ácidos Nucleicos , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2/genética , COVID-19/diagnóstico , Genótipo , Nucleotídeos , Mutação
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Bioinformatics ; 39(1)2023 01 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36645249

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SUMMARY: Cytoscape.js is an open-source JavaScript-based graph library. Its most common use case is as a visualization software component, so it can be used to render interactive graphs in a web browser. It also can be used in a headless manner, useful for graph operations on a server, such as Node.js. This update describes new features and enhancements introduced over many new versions from 2015 to 2022. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Cytoscape.js is implemented in JavaScript. Documentation, downloads and source code are available at http://js.cytoscape.org. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


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Gráficos por Computador , Bibliotecas , Software , Navegador , Documentação
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bioRxiv ; 2023 Dec 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38187588

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The understanding of how different cell types contribute to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) pathogenesis is limited. Here we generated a single-nucleus transcriptomic and epigenomic atlas of the frontal cortex of ALS cases with C9orf72 (C9) hexanucleotide repeat expansions and sporadic ALS (sALS). Our findings reveal shared pathways in C9-ALS and sALS, characterized by synaptic dysfunction in excitatory neurons and a disease-associated state in microglia. The disease subtypes diverge with loss of astrocyte homeostasis in C9-ALS, and a more substantial disturbance of inhibitory neurons in sALS. Leveraging high depth 3'-end sequencing, we found a widespread switch towards distal polyadenylation (PA) site usage across ALS subtypes relative to controls. To explore this differential alternative PA (APA), we developed APA-Net, a deep neural network model that uses transcript sequence and expression levels of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) to predict cell-type specific APA usage and RBP interactions likely to regulate APA across disease subtypes.

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Nat Commun ; 13(1): 7634, 2022 Dec 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36496458

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Knowledge of the transcriptional programs underpinning the functions of human kidney cell populations at homeostasis is limited. We present a single-cell perspective of healthy human kidney from 19 living donors, with equal contribution from males and females, profiling the transcriptome of 27677 cells to map human kidney at high resolution. Sex-based differences in gene expression within proximal tubular cells were observed, specifically, increased anti-oxidant metallothionein genes in females and aerobic metabolism-related genes in males. Functional differences in metabolism were confirmed in proximal tubular cells, with male cells exhibiting higher oxidative phosphorylation and higher levels of energy precursor metabolites. We identified kidney-specific lymphocyte populations with unique transcriptional profiles indicative of kidney-adapted functions. Significant heterogeneity in myeloid cells was observed, with a MRC1+LYVE1+FOLR2+C1QC+ population representing a predominant population in healthy kidney. This study provides a detailed cellular map of healthy human kidney, and explores the complexity of parenchymal and kidney-resident immune cells.


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Receptor 2 de Folato , Rim , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Rim/metabolismo , Transcriptoma , Metalotioneína/genética , Metalotioneína/metabolismo , Células Mieloides/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Análise de Célula Única , Receptor 2 de Folato/metabolismo
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bioRxiv ; 2022 Oct 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36324805

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The molecular underpinnings of organ dysfunction in acute COVID-19 and its potential long-term sequelae are under intense investigation. To shed light on these in the context of liver function, we performed single-nucleus RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic profiling of livers from 17 COVID-19 decedents. We identified hepatocytes positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA with an expression phenotype resembling infected lung epithelial cells. Integrated analysis and comparisons with healthy controls revealed extensive changes in the cellular composition and expression states in COVID-19 liver, reflecting hepatocellular injury, ductular reaction, pathologic vascular expansion, and fibrogenesis. We also observed Kupffer cell proliferation and erythrocyte progenitors for the first time in a human liver single-cell atlas, resembling similar responses in liver injury in mice and in sepsis, respectively. Despite the absence of a clinical acute liver injury phenotype, endothelial cell composition was dramatically impacted in COVID-19, concomitantly with extensive alterations and profibrogenic activation of reactive cholangiocytes and mesenchymal cells. Our atlas provides novel insights into liver physiology and pathology in COVID-19 and forms a foundational resource for its investigation and understanding.

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Front Neurosci ; 16: 1027116, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36408415

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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is an important public health issue, as it can lead to long-term neurological symptoms and risk of neurodegenerative disease. The pathophysiological mechanisms driving this remain unclear, and currently there are no effective therapies for mTBI. In this study on repeated mTBI (rmTBI), we have induced three mild closed-skull injuries or sham procedures, separated by 24 h, in C57BL/6 mice. We show that rmTBI mice have prolonged righting reflexes and astrogliosis, with neurological impairment in the Morris water maze (MWM) and the light dark test. Cortical and hippocampal tissue analysis revealed DNA damage in the form of double-strand breaks, oxidative damage, and R-loops, markers of cellular senescence including p16 and p21, and signaling mediated by the cGAS-STING pathway. This study identified novel sex differences after rmTBI in mice. Although these markers were all increased by rmTBI in both sexes, females had higher levels of DNA damage, lower levels of the senescence protein p16, and lower levels of cGAS-STING signaling proteins compared to their male counterparts. Single-cell RNA sequencing of the male rmTBI mouse brain revealed activation of the DNA damage response, evidence of cellular senescence, and pro-inflammatory markers reminiscent of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in neurons and glial cells. Cell-type specific changes were also present with evidence of brain immune activation, neurotransmission alterations in both excitatory and inhibitory neurons, and vascular dysfunction. Treatment of injured mice with the senolytic drug ABT263 significantly reduced markers of senescence only in males, but was not therapeutic in females. The reduction of senescence by ABT263 in male mice was accompanied by significantly improved performance in the MWM. This study provides compelling evidence that senescence contributes to brain dysfunction after rmTBI, but may do so in a sex-dependent manner.

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Cell Rep ; 41(8): 111678, 2022 11 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36417873

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There are hundreds of risk genes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but signaling networks at the protein level remain unexplored. We use neuron-specific proximity-labeling proteomics (BioID2) to identify protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks for 41 ASD risk genes. Neuron-specific PPI networks, including synaptic transmission proteins, are disrupted by de novo missense variants. The PPI network map reveals convergent pathways, including mitochondrial/metabolic processes, Wnt signaling, and MAPK signaling. CRISPR knockout displays an association between mitochondrial activity and ASD risk genes. The PPI network shows an enrichment of 112 additional ASD risk genes and differentially expressed genes from postmortem ASD patients. Clustering of risk genes based on PPI networks identifies gene groups corresponding to clinical behavior score severity. Our data report that cell type-specific PPI networks can identify individual and convergent ASD signaling networks, provide a method to assess patient variants, and highlight biological insight into disease mechanisms and sub-cohorts of ASD.


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Transtorno do Espectro Autista , Transtorno Autístico , Humanos , Transtorno Autístico/genética , Transtorno do Espectro Autista/genética , Mapas de Interação de Proteínas/genética , Neurônios , Proteínas , Via de Sinalização Wnt
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Nat Methods ; 19(10): 1250-1261, 2022 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36192463

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Biological networks constructed from varied data can be used to map cellular function, but each data type has limitations. Network integration promises to address these limitations by combining and automatically weighting input information to obtain a more accurate and comprehensive representation of the underlying biology. We developed a deep learning-based network integration algorithm that incorporates a graph convolutional network framework. Our method, BIONIC (Biological Network Integration using Convolutions), learns features that contain substantially more functional information compared to existing approaches. BIONIC has unsupervised and semisupervised learning modes, making use of available gene function annotations. BIONIC is scalable in both size and quantity of the input networks, making it feasible to integrate numerous networks on the scale of the human genome. To demonstrate the use of BIONIC in identifying new biology, we predicted and experimentally validated essential gene chemical-genetic interactions from nonessential gene profiles in yeast.


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Algoritmos , Biônica , Genoma Humano , Humanos , Anotação de Sequência Molecular
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