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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Generation and analysis of context-specific genome-scale metabolic models derived from single-cell RNA-Seq data.

Johan Gustafsson, Mihail Anton, Fariba Roshanzamir, Rebecka Jörnsten, Eduard J Kerkhoven, Jonathan L Robinson, Jens Nielsen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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7 authors.

Johan GustafssonDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5072-2659
Mihail AntonDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41258 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7753-9042
Fariba RoshanzamirDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Rebecka JörnstenMathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
Eduard J KerkhovenDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3593-5792
Jonathan L RobinsonDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8567-5960
Jens NielsenDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9955-6003

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing combined with genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) has the potential to unravel the differences in metabolism across both cell types and cell states but requires new computational methods. Here, we present a method for generating cell-type-specific genome-scale models from clusters of single-cell RNA-Seq profiles. Specifically, we developed a method to estimate the minimum number of cells required to pool to obtain stable models, a bootstrapping strategy for estimating statistical inference, and a faster version of the task-driven integrative network inference for tissues algorithm for generating context-specific GEMs. In addition, we evaluated the effect of different RNA-Seq normalization methods on model topology and differences in models generated from single-cell and bulk RNA-Seq data. We applied our methods on data from mouse cortex neurons and cells from the tumor microenvironment of lung cancer and in both cases found that almost every cell subtype had a unique metabolic profile. In addition, our approach was able to detect cancer-associated metabolic differences between cancer cells and healthy cells, showcasing its utility. We also contextualized models from 202 single-cell clusters across 19 human organs using data from Human Protein Atlas and made these available in the web portal Metabolic Atlas, thereby providing a valuable resource to the scientific community. With the ever-increasing availability of single-cell RNA-Seq datasets and continuously improved GEMs, their combination holds promise to become an important approach in the study of human metabolism.

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Gene Expression ProfilingSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisAlgorithmsAnimalsGenomeHumansMiceRNA-SeqSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisGEMmodelingRNA-Seqsingle-cell

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PMID36719923
PMCPMC9963017

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