JIRUI WEN^1,#, WENCHAO WU^2,#, MIN TANG¹, MINGYUE BAO¹, XUELING HE³, XINGHONG YAO¹, LIANG LI^1,*

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 655-665, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.016915

Abstract To dissect which subset of bone marrow monocyte is the major precursor of osteoclast, 3-month-old rat bone marrow was obtained for single-cell RNA sequencing. A total of 6091 cells were acquired for detailed analysis, with a median number of 1206 genes detected per cell and 17,959 genes detected in total. A total of 19 cell clusters were recognized, with the main lineages identified as B cells, Granulocytes, Monocytes, T cells, Erythrocytes and Macrophages. Monocytes were further divided into classical monocytes and non-classical monocytes. Compared with non-classical monocytes, classical monocytes highly expressed osteoclast differentiation related genes Mitf, Spi1, Fos and Csf1r.… More >

XIANLIANG HOU^1,2,3,#, DONGE TANG^1,#, FENGPING ZHENG^1,#, MINGLIN OU³, YONG XU¹, HUIXUAN XU¹, XIAOPING HONG⁴, XINZHOU ZHANG¹, WEIER DAI⁵, DONGZHOU LIU^4,*, YONG DAI^1,*

BIOCELL, Vol.44, No.4, pp. 559-582, 2020, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2020.011022

Abstract Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by abnormal cellular and humoral immune responses and excessive autoantibody production. The precise pathologic mechanism of SLE remains elusive. The advent of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables unbiased analysis of the molecular differences of cell populations at the single-cell level. We used scRNA-seq to profile the transcriptomes of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from an SLE patient compared with a healthy control (HC). A total of 16,021 cells were analyzed and partitioned into 12 distinct clusters. The marker genes of each cluster and the four major immune cell types (B cells,… More >