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ArticleDisease models & mechanisms2020

Quantitative single-cell interactomes in normal and virus-infected mouse lungs.

Margo P Cain, Belinda J Hernandez, Jichao Chen

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Article in Disease models & mechanisms, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Advances in Single-Cell Sequencing for Infectious Diseases: Progress and Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  13. Intermediary Role of Lung Alveolar Type 1 Cells in Epithelial Repair upon Sendai Virus Infection.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2022
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  17. Breathing fresh air into respiratory research with single-cell RNA sequencing.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Margo P CainDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Belinda J HernandezDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Jichao ChenDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA jchen16@mdanderson.org.ORCID 0000-0003-2749-8550

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI DIANE BODURKA · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Role of AT1 cells in perinatal lung maturationR01HL130129 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI CHEN, JICHAO · 2016 to 2023
$4.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL130129
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian organs consist of diverse, intermixed cell types that signal to each other via ligand-receptor interactions - an interactome - to ensure development, homeostasis and injury-repair. Dissecting such intercellular interactions is facilitated by rapidly growing single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data; however, existing computational methods are often not readily adaptable by bench scientists without advanced programming skills. Here, we describe a quantitative intuitive algorithm, coupled with an optimized experimental protocol, to construct and compare interactomes in control and Sendai virus-infected mouse lungs. A minimum of 90 cells per cell type compensates for the known gene dropout issue in scRNA-seq and achieves comparable sensitivity to bulk RNA sequencing. Cell lineage normalization after cell sorting allows cost-efficient representation of cell types of interest. A numeric representation of ligand-receptor interactions identifies, as outliers, known and potentially new interactions as well as changes upon viral infection. Our experimental and computational approaches can be generalized to other organs and human samples.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingRNA-SeqSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeAnimalsCell CommunicationCell LineageDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGene Regulatory NetworksHost-Pathogen InteractionsLungMaleMice, Inbred C57BLRespirovirus InfectionsSendai virusBioinformaticsLigand-receptor interactionLung viral injuryscRNA-seq

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PMID32461220
PMCPMC7328136

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